The World's Most Beautiful Places
Pilot Knob Sunset near Westbend and Clay City, Kentucky. Pilot Knob sits on the edge of two regions, the Outer Bluegrass, and the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains. As seems appropriate the area is known as the Knobs, where hundreds of isolated cone shaped hills capped with erosion resistant limestone and sandstone rise above the surrounding forested valleys.
The Story Inn has a long history dating back to 1882. It lies at the center of the town of Story, Indiana, which was founded by farmers trying to make a living from the marginal soils of the hilly area that is Brown County, Indiana. The town and the inn went through various phases of growth and decline, and the surrounding countryside saw much of its original farming population leave and the land they left behind turned into Indiana’s largest state park.
A view of Utah’s Uinta Mountains from the top of Bald Mountain. In the distance can be seen Mirror Lake, Bonnie Lake, Pass Lake, Blythe Lake, Moosehorn Lake, Mt. Agassiz, and Hayden Peak.
The Uinta Mountains, a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, are the highest east-west mountain range in the United States, and the highest mountain range in the state of Utah. The highest peak, Kings Peak is 13,528 ft. Much of the rain from the east and southeast portions of the range flow into the Green River, and ultimately down the Colorado River to Mexico. Whereas water from the west and northwest portions of the range flow into the Provo, Weber and Bear Rivers. All three rivers flow into lakes, including Bear Lake, Utah Lake, and the Great Salt Lake, which is itself the end point for all three rivers, in Utah’s West Desert.
The valley below Bald Mountain is a popular recreation spot, along the Mirror Lake Highway, which passes northeast through the western Uinta’s and over Bald Mountain Pass from Kamas to the Wyoming border.
The high Uintas were extensively glaciated during the last ice age, and most of the large stream valleys on both the north and south sides of the range held long valley glaciers.
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