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Telluride is in a box canyon
 

Treads - Drive - Colorado

Telluride, the City of Gold

First the gold boom. Then the tourist boom.

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Telluride, in a box canyon off Colorado 145, is a boomtown on its second time around. Outside Magazine recently called it "without question the most scenic mountain town in the west".

The first boom, in the late 1800s, centered around the gold and silver veins high in the granite mountainsides. Much of it was found in the gold-bearing element tellurium, for which the town is named. Telluride was one of the richest mining towns in Colorad...[continued]

 
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  atop Submarine Rock Sedona is a year-round destination, but spring and fall are the best times to be outdoors. Sedona is usually ten to fifteen degrees cooler than Phoenix. Treads | Jeep - Broken Arrow is Sedona's sand and slickrock trail. [more] view from Lava Flow trail Treads Treads | Drive - Cinder cone remains of an eruption 600 years ago. [more] near the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Drive Treads | Drive - The Bitterroot. The Beaverhead. The Big Hole. [more]  
 
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Snoqualmie Falls
 

Treads - Drive - Washington

Snoqualmie Falls: Higher Than Niagara

A 268 foot waterfall, and the home of Twin Peaks.

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One of the most beautiful and popular waterfalls in the state of Washington is less than 35 miles from the heart of Seattle. Snoqualmie Falls is recognizable to many because of several appearances it made in the Twin Peaks television series. In fact, the Salish Lodge and Spa at the top of the falls was the exterior setting of the Great Northern Hotel.

Although Snoqualmie is actually 100 feet higher than Niagara Falls, one of its gre...[continued]

 
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  view from Head of the Rocks overlook Winters are cold, with highs in the 40s and summers are hot, with highs in the 90s and 100s. So spring and fall are best. Treads | Drive - Take a full day to drive 122 spectacular miles. [more] downtown Solvang Treads Treads | Drive - A colony established in 1911 by Danish educators. [more] Point Pinos Lighthouse Drive Treads | Drive - The Monterey Peninsula’s peaceful little sister. [more]  
 
         
       
         
 
     
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