The Less Popular Great American Sites

[ViperOverLord]

Starting a thread to celebrate the sites that are awesome but people don't talk about them nearly as much. This is to talk about sites that perhaps people have not heard of as much (as we all know about the Grand Canyon, Times Square, Yellowstone, Statue of Liberty, Mt Rushmore - and in my case I've seen them all too).

I'm going to post the first one and others are encouraged to reply or post their own awesome sites.

Split Rock Light House (Northern Minnesota - North Shore)

It's just something like 100 miles north of Duluth (which is a fun town to see btw). It's right on Lake Superior and is possibly the most majestic light house you'll ever see.





Awesome Split Rock in the Fog At Sunrise - Must See Youtubage

Dawn At Split Rock

Inner Workings Of Split Rock Featuring J Cash Song

Nearby Goosebury Falls National Park

Camping Video from North Shore, MN

Gooseburian Chicks

Also, the forestry is just rich in Northern Minnesota! You'll absolutely never go to a denser more colorful forest area in the continental United States. Oh and don't go in the winter though. Don't be fooled by their wonderful spring and summer days. It gets cold as heck up there! It's the coldest place in the continental USA - Minus 60 with the wind chill in the winter is not out of the question! It can be insane to even get your car started. Anyone that wants to be a real man should move there.

[Phatscotty]

Also, the forestry is just rich in Northern Minnesota! You'll absolutely never go to a denser more colorful forest area in the continental United State. Oh and don't go in the winter though. Don't be fooled by their wonderful spring and summer days. It gets cold as heck up there! It's the coldest place in the continental USA - Minus 60 with the wind chill in the winter is not out of the question! It can be insane to even get your car started. Anyone that wants to be a real man should move there.

Thanks. Yes the forestry makes for excellent bird and deer hunting as well. The best time to be here is during a nice Indian Summer just when the leaves are turning, and to be walking on whichever trail you choose, and staying out however long you want to.



Just fer shits...


The Northwest Angle:Minnesota's Northwest Angle (a peninsula attached to Manitoba) was created by accident due to mapmakers' vague conceptions of the origins of the Mississippi River. When the river turned up south of where they expected, the border dropped down too, leaving an isolated 390 square kilometre piece of the U.S. appended to Manitoba. About 100 Americans call that piece of land home.

Lake of the Woods (from the Minnesota Side!)

[Baron Von PWN]

Also, the forestry is just rich in Northern Minnesota! You'll absolutely never go to a denser more colorful forest area in the continental United State. Oh and don't go in the winter though. Don't be fooled by their wonderful spring and summer days. It gets cold as heck up there! It's the coldest place in the continental USA - Minus 60 with the wind chill in the winter is not out of the question! It can be insane to even get your car started. Anyone that wants to be a real man should move there.

Thanks. Yes the forestry makes for excellent bird and deer hunting as well. The best time to be here is during a nice Indian Summer just when the leaves are turning, and to be walking on whichever trail you choose, and staying out however long you want to.



Just fer shits...


The Northwest Angle:Minnesota's Northwest Angle (a peninsula attached to Manitoba) was created by accident due to mapmakers' vague conceptions of the origins of the Mississippi River. When the river turned up south of where they expected, the border dropped down too, leaving an isolated 390 square kilometre piece of the U.S. appended to Manitoba. About 100 Americans call that piece of land home.

Lake of the Woods (from the Minnesota Side!)

Canada should annex that, along with the bit at the end of Victoria Island and Alaska (We would kick Palin out ) .

More seriously I think those little appendages speak to the closeness of the Canada US relationship, that we have these little enclaves and it causes so few problems that both nations are largely ignorant of them.

[BigBallinStalin]

Because that land is hardly valuable.
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Yeah I said it.

[Timminz]

Because that land is hardly valuable.
'
Yeah I said it.

Seriously. That satellite image even shows how undesirable it is. Fairly decent population all around the lakes, except that spot.

[nietzsche]

Target


Best Buy

[targetman377]

what is this a Minnesota thread?

really?? I have been to all the places above. I live in the minni soda or pop as we call it lol

[GabonX]

Chickies Ridge/Chickies Rock

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/44/l_b1e99a6a6799ba25ed389c6700ccfdd0.jpg

It's tough finding pictures that really show what this place is. These two give you a better impression than the above three, but I can't embed them.

[Borderdawg]

Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. Worlds highest suspension bridge (I believe it's still the highest)
It is truly a rush to cross it!!

[Juan_Bottom]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIG IMG TAGS?

[Phatscotty]

what is this a Minnesota thread?

really?? I have been to all the places above. I live in the minni soda or pop as we call it lol

minni-snowda! Snowing tonight

[ViperOverLord]

Back in the day when I was planning a trip to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, a S. Dakotan told me that The Badlands was a cooler place to hang out. She was right. I was surprised because I had always thought Mount Rushmore would be cool and it was. I loved the 40 minute drive from Rapid City to Mount Rushmore. there was cool creeks, forestry, mountain tunnels, train tracks going over the tunnels. But The Badlands was so unique and I liked it more.

The good news is that The Badlands and Mt. Rushmore are within an hour of each other, so you can really see both! And its kind of trippy that such rich mountainous forestry (Mt. Rushmore area) is located right next to an area (Badlands) that is so airy and has completely different vegetation, topography and climate.

I'll post some pictures, but in all honesty the pictures don't do it justice. When I was there I was amazed by the rock formations, the chasms (and the acoustics in em). The trails are fun too.

The Badlands is National Park and a good many of you have heard of it. But I'd be willing to bet that less than 1 of 3 people have heard of it and less than 1 in 5 could name the state it's in off the top of their heads. So it's worth posting about it here.

[Army of GOD]

New York City

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[bigimg]http://www.advanced-appraisal.com/san-francisco-real-estate-appraiser.jpg[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://slowmuse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/sanfrancisco.jpg[/bigimg]

[mviola]

New York City

[bigimg]http://www.unionstreetinn.com/images/sanfrancisco3.jpg[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://www.advanced-appraisal.com/san-francisco-real-estate-appraiser.jpg[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://slowmuse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/sanfrancisco.jpg[/bigimg]

I'm pretty sure that's San Francisco...

[ViperOverLord]

Respect the thread AoG - That's not what this thread is about.

[Army of GOD]

New York City

[bigimg]http://www.unionstreetinn.com/images/sanfrancisco3.jpg[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://www.advanced-appraisal.com/san-francisco-real-estate-appraiser.jpg[/bigimg]

[bigimg]http://slowmuse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/sanfrancisco.jpg[/bigimg]

I'm pretty sure that's San Francisco...

No it's not? I googled NYC and these pictures popped up...

[The Bison King]

Oh yeah, I recognize those. Definitely New York. I've been there.

[BigBallinStalin]

Beautiful and disgusting at the same time. Sounds great to me!

[The Bison King]

Beautiful and disgusting at the same time. Sounds great to me!

What is this place?

[Army of GOD]

New York City?

Did you take those pictures with saxi's iPhone?

[BigBallinStalin]

Beautiful and disgusting at the same time. Sounds great to me!

What is this place?

Uhmerica!

[Phatscotty]

Yeah, you know what's cool about that, is I saw a time lapse video from a Chinese Barge traversing across Beijing. Factories stretched for miles, hundreds of miles, all the way from sun up to sun down and then to rise again.

You could not open one single factory like that in America

[BigBallinStalin]

Yeah, you know what's cool about that, is I saw a time lapse video from a Chinese Barge traversing across Beijing. Factories stretched for miles, hundreds of miles, all the way from sun up to sun down and then to rise again.

You could not open one single factory like that in America

The factories in the US are just more spread out since we're blessed with so much arable land, unlike the Chinese. You should check out the chemical plants and oil refineries in Baton Rouge, a beautiful Cancer Belt of the South.

[Timminz]

Those are pretty, but I still don't believe in biblical aliens, or the great flood.

[The Bison King]

Those are pretty, but I still don't believe in biblical aliens, or the great flood.

That's Utah, wrong state but nice try.