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The Old Fall River Road, sometimes referred to as "The Old Road" by park staff in Rocky Mountain National Park, was the first automobile road to penetrate the interior of the park. The road linked the east side of the park near Estes Park with Grand Lake on the west side. Work began in 1913 but was interrupted in 1914 by World War I with final ...
The Gold Mint Trail provides miles of technical, rocky, gently-climbing mountain bike riding alongside the Little Susitna River. The "16-mile trail" is a steep downhill, 2-mile long (3 km) bike trail with 1,000 vertical feet (300 m) of drop that was built in 2013, in between switchbacks of the Hatcher Pass road, starting at mile 16 of the ...
State. Montana. The Castle Mountains, highest point Elk Peak, el. 8,589 feet (2,618 m), [1] are an island range east of White Sulphur Springs in Meagher County, Montana, United States. [2] About 30,000 acres of the Castles were roadless as of 1995. [3] The western portion of the Castles are moist, while the eastside is dry, porous limestone ...
Castle Mountain (Blackfoot: Miistukskoowa) is a mountain located within Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, approximately halfway between Banff and Lake Louise.It is the easternmost mountain of the Main Ranges in the Bow Valley and sits astride the Castle Mountain Fault which has thrust older sedimentary and metamorphic rocks forming the upper part of the mountain over the younger ...
Added to NRHP. August 5, 1998 [1] Designated NHL. August 6, 1998 [2] Woodmont is a mansion and hilltop estate of 72 acres (29 ha) in Gladwyne It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1998 for its well-preserved Chateau-style architecture. [2][3]
Topo map. USGS Fall River Pass. Fall River Pass (elevation 11,796 feet (3,595 m)) is a mountain pass in northern Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States. It is located in the Front Range, within Rocky Mountain National Park. The pass is traversed by U.S. Highway 34 on Trail Ridge Road between Granby and Estes Park.
Castle Mountains National Monument. Castle Mountains National Monument was established by President Obama on 12 February 2016. [6][5][7] It designates a portion of the Castle Mountains and the surrounding area a national monument, managed by the National Park Service. It protects 20,920 acres between the interstates I−15 and I−40.
Wyntoon is a private estate in rural Siskiyou County, California, owned by the Hearst Corporation. Architects Willis Polk, Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan all designed structures for Wyntoon, beginning in 1899. The land, sited at two sharp bends in the McCloud River, was named by financial adviser Edward Clark for the local Native American ...