The World's Most Beautiful Places
The Jonsrud viewpoint, in the Willamette Valley offers the visitor both a historic and scenic view of a beautiful stretch of Oregon. Through the valley below, passed the Barlow Road, also known as the Mt. Hood Road. This road was part of the larger Oregon Trail, and made it much easier for pioneers to reach the fertile valley along Oregon’s coast. On a clear day the conical peak of the Mt. Hood volcano rises prominently above the horizon. In Sandy, Oregon.
The Fire Wave at sunset, Valley of Fire, Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Valley of Fire State Park covers an area of more than 49,000 acres, and offers a varied landscape, flat open desert, colorful sandstone rock strata, the written remains of ancient native american tribes, and beautiful isolated canyons and ravines that offer recreational opportunities and shelter a variety of plant and wildlife species. The Valley of Fire is part of the Mojave Desert, and lies at an elevation from 1,320–3,009.
The park is also part of the Virgin River drainage, which originates east of Zion National Park in Utah, and forms part of the vast Colorado River Basin that eventually drains into the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) in Mexico.
The historic Francis Tate Barn, in the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah. The barn is located in the Heber Valley near Solider Hollow. Deer Creek Reservoir which sits in the Provo River drainage, and stores water coming down from the Uinta Mountains to the east, is seen in the distance. Francis Tate, was an English emigrant, who established a dairy farm near the barn’s current location. The original barn was built in 1902, and a rebuilt barn following the design of the original was constructed in the run-up to the 2002 Winter Olympics.