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Blue Ridge reservoir and boat ramp
 

Ripples - Fish - Arizona

Blue Ridge Reservoir

Looks like a river, fishes like a lake.

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An Arizona travel writer once said: “If the Mogollon Rim were in a less scenic region, it might well be a national park”. The Rim, a steep escarpment marking the southern edge of the Colorado plateau, is dotted by lakes and rimmed by rivers, but anglers will find it all combined at the isolated Blue Ridge Reservoir.

About 63 miles south of Flagstaff on a graveled forest road, Blue Ridge is nestled between forested canyon walls in th...[continued]

 
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  BlueWater marina Less than four inches of rain fall here annually. And although spring, winter and fall may officially be the best times to visit, those 100+ degree summer temperatures combined with 80+ degree water isn’t bad either. After all, it’s a DRY heat. Ripples | Boat - Eighty-eight miles from Davis to Parker. [more] Mallard's Rest river access, Mile 511 Ripples Ripples | Fish - No dam Yellowstone. Just lots of damn trout! [more] photo provided by the State of New Mexico Swim Ripples | Swim - Woolly mammoths, goldfish, and scuba divers. [more]  
 
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the ferry arrives on the Peninsula
 

Ripples - Boat - California

Balboa: The Peninsula and the Island

Coastal getaway for the rich, the famous, and you.

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The lots are not much bigger than a postage stamp. And at one time Balboa Island was little more than a sandbar, usually swallowed up by high tide. But the views were spectacular and the weather almost idyllic. So Balboa Island and the Balboa Peninsula became one of the most expensive real estate markets in North America outside of lower Manhattan.

Stars flocked here to live or moored their boats at Newport Bay, and many of them still ow...[continued]

 
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  rafting Westwater The Bureau of Land Management accepts applications from prospective river runners after January 1. Reservations are awarded by lottery. Ripples | Raft - Try the little-known Colorado River experience. [more] Jet Boat on the Rogue Ripples Ripples | Raft - A river is the best trail into the backcountry. [more] Wild Horse Island Boat Ripples | Boat - From a time when Montana was all a vast wilderness [more]  
 
         
       
         
 
     
 
 
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