Conquer Club

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.

ViperOverLord wrote:
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!)

Phatscotty wrote:

ViperOverLord wrote:
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.

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

BigBallinStalin wrote:Because that land is hardly valuable.
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Yeah I said it.

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

Target


Best Buy

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

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.

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

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BIG IMG TAGS?

targetman377 wrote: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

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]

Army of GOD wrote: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...

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

mviola wrote:

Army of GOD wrote: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...

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

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

BigBallinStalin wrote:











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

What is this place?

New York City?

Did you take those pictures with saxi's iPhone?

The Bison King wrote:

BigBallinStalin wrote:











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

What is this place?

Uhmerica!

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

Phatscotty wrote: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.

ViperOverLord wrote:

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

Timminz wrote:

ViperOverLord wrote:

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

That's Utah, wrong state but nice try.