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Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:18 PM Aug 2022

The most beautiful places I've been

Canada - Banff & Jasper National Parks
U.S. Glacier National Park in Montana & Yosemite in California.
...Olive/Harvey Park in Chicago has a beautiful view of Lake Michigan.
...The Everglades in Florida are incredible like being in a forest/jungle/pond/etc....Yes, beware of Alligators if you go there.
...Grand Canyon is beyond description.

No, I haven't been to Alaska or Hawaii

No, I haven't been to Switzerland, Africa, South America.
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elleng

(130,908 posts)
1. Cinque Terre, popped right into my mind.
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:22 PM
Aug 2022

Thanks for the suggestion, will keep thinking.

Jackson Hole/Lake Jackson

BOSSHOG

(37,055 posts)
2. Northern Scotland was other worldly beautiful
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:23 PM
Aug 2022

I was there in the early 60’s. Almost Heaven. And that’s a lot coming from a recovering Catholic.

I have to mention the South Louisiana Swamp lands and the alligators. Holy terror and serenity all in the same place.

applegrove

(118,659 posts)
3. I had a summer job working at the Lake Agnes Tea House overlooking
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:29 PM
Aug 2022

Lake Louise. 2000 feet up. I showered in a waterfall. It was grand. Summer I was 18.

Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
5. At the link below are pictures of Lake Louise in Banff National Park Yes, It is that Beautiful
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:35 PM
Aug 2022
https://www.google.com/search?q=Lake+Louise&sitesearch=

Scroll down some to get see more pictures of Lake Louise

applegrove

(118,659 posts)
7. That turquoise colour is because of glacial flour that is created when
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:40 PM
Aug 2022

the glaciers grind against the mountains. I hope they
glacial flour still survives the melting of the glaciers. I can tell that the glaciers on Mt Victoria in Lake Louise is smaller than it was when I lived there.

applegrove

(118,659 posts)
10. I would love the Grand Canyon except my summer in Lake Louise taught me
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:42 PM
Aug 2022

I was afraid of heights. Grand Canyon is beautiful.

Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
9. I camped out in a State Park near the Badlands..forgot the name.
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:41 PM
Aug 2022

& I got up from my tent in the morning and a Moose was standing about 5 feet away. (I guess it was looking
for a bite to eat...I didn't give him anything. I was frightened of it, more than anything else. You know how
huge a Moose is 5 feet away.???

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
11. Alaska was amazing. I'd love to go back and take the
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:48 PM
Aug 2022

train from Anchorage to Seward. The rice fields of Bali were breathtaking. West Bay in Roatan, Honduras. You can snorkel to the reef from the beach. Camping on the islands in the middle of Lake George. Breckinridge, Colorado. First time I’d ever seen the Rocky Mountains.

markie

(22,756 posts)
13. having had the very good fortune
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 11:13 PM
Aug 2022

of traveling the United Staes extensively for work... I know that there is beauty and intrigue is most every place. The Redwoods top the list for me, although there is so much! We went out in an airboat in the everglades and Elvis our driver stopped so we could feed and touch/pat a huge alligator often for me the people we encountered made the difference

I was able to hike down into the Grand Canyon twice... Wow! The Konza Prairies of Kansas are amazing, The Grand Tetons were breathtaking and Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho is out of this world... https://www.nps.gov/crmo/index.htm

I was so fortunate and have never taken my opportunities for granted... there are so many beautiful and interesting places that just don't get the attention they deserve, both natural wonders and manmade






Washington State fields

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
15. A very impressive list. My contribution:
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 11:28 PM
Aug 2022

Austria: Vienna (on an early Sunday morning)

Canada: Cape Split, Nova Scotia; Lake Moraine, Baniff National Park, Alberta; Kick Horse Falls, Yoho National Park, British Columbia.

USA: Bryce Canyon,

3Hotdogs

(12,378 posts)
16. New Jersey. Yes. New Jersey.
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 12:03 AM
Aug 2022

Marsh in the Pine Barrens.

Sunset in Forsythe Preserve.

Ken Lockwood Gorge in fall.

Delaware Water Gap, overlooking the Delaware River.

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