Yes, that's where it is - I don't know if it's being refurbished, I got there just after it closed for the day and had to take the pic from the parking lot outside the compound.
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Yes, that's where it is - I don't know if it's being refurbished, I got there just after it closed for the day and had to take the pic from the parking lot outside the compound.
You gave that up way too early. We still don't know where in California this if from!
Mark
Point Arena Lighthouse?
Exactly!!!
probably really easy :)
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/forum...achmentid=2674
....... Lover's Leap, Ouachita National Recreational Trail, near Mena, Arkansas.
Foy
Eagle Rock, Eagle Rock Loop Trail, near Mena, Arkansas.
Foy
Nope... neither spot :)
We were "tricked" into going to this spot... I was lead to believe it was only a 1/2 mile hike one way... afterwards i found out it was actually around 1.85 miles to get there...
i'm glad they tricked me though
Forgot to tell you that you're really Close though!
Well, I've fairly well exhausted my reservoir of Arkansas-Oklahoma places. It has been, after all, 30 years since I did field work near Mena and weekend travel up in the Ozarks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pfemm
Something of a hint, perhaps?
Foy
Close meaning the right state : Arkansas
Hint : North
This place goes by two different names depending on who you talk to
............I'll travel north of Mena to the highest point in Arkansas, Mount Magazine, where Sunrise Rock awaits those willing and able to take a short hike.
Foy
Nope... not that one either ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Foy
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/forum...achmentid=2691
{Taken by Me :: 27 Sept 2010}
... this was taken looking towards the spot (on the right cliff) where the first photo was taken.
Hobbs State park perchance ? Beaver lake being the "other" name
Nope... not Hobbs...
This spot/rock i'm standing on is one of the most photographed spots in all of Arkansas
I've never been there -- just used your term...
Mark
Mark - Nope not Pinnacle either. More northwest
Dave - southeast of Hobbs
Hawksbill Crag in the Ozark NF/Buffalo national river area ? [ AKA Whitakar point]
:D YES! and according to all the people we asked for directions: it's "the most photographed rock in all of Arkansas."
Halfway up the super inclined six-mile dirt road you have to drive on to get to the hiking spot.. we thought we were going the wrong way and so we asked a fellow sitting on his porch where "Whitaker Point" was and he said "i don't know what whitaker point is but up the road there's 'Hawksbill Crag'."
I really had no idea what he was calling it even after he repeated himself several times lol...
but he just happened to be looking at an Arkansas brochure showed me a picture of "Hawksbill Crag" and then we realized we were taking about the same thing. :)
And i really have to give big kudos to this site for inspiring us to get out and just drive... My husband and I have seen more of oklahoma and the surrounding areas in the last 6-9 months than we have in the last 15 years living here! (and now we're obsessed with two lane highways, small towns, and homemade pie)
I could use some homemade pie about now!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pfemm
Thanks for the kudos!
Mark
I know this kind of goes against the principle of this thread but (1) it's been a bit quiet and (2) it's still a visual/geographical challenge. The thing is, I don't actually know the answer. It's a photo I took 5 years ago, somewhere west of Coeur D'Alene, probably just over the border into Washington, but I can't remember precisely where. Does anyone recognise the mountain? Thanks in advance!
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/photo.../2005_trip.JPG
Time to bring this one back up again!
Yes, it's edited to remove writing which would make it obvious.
Is it the "Spud drive in Theatre" at Driggs in Idaho ?
I had to search, but having heard a Lot [rather too much] about Potatoes in Idaho from a chap in Hanksville who "goes there every year to his cousins farm and picks up a truck load" it gave me a head start.
Yessir, that's what it is!
This one won't be anywhere near as easy:
It's not so easy George !
So while pressing for a clue to move it along, I'll take a wild guess and say a segment of Sioux Falls ?
Oh well - I've been a bit of a homebody this winter.........
Hmmm, I'll take a wild guesser... It sorta looks like Mt. St. Helens, but not exactly... hmmmQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter Thody
OK, a semi-sophisticated WAG first eliminates Mount St Helens--it's some 350 miles west of Spokane and should not be so plainly visible if the pic was taken somewhere between C'our d Alene.
The highway is probably not I-90 as there is a double yellow line divider, generally not present on an Interstate.
Driving south on US 395 from northwest of Spokane back towards Spokane, Mount Spokane within Mount Spokane State Park appears roughly conical in shape right along the WA-ID border, which would appear on the left side of the highway and some 20 miles distant as the traveler proceeded south along US 395.
Beyond that SSWAG, it's pretty tough to say where the pic might be. If the at least the highway were known, one might narrow it down with a topo map.
Foy
OK, but the shape looked like a blasted-off mountain... I've driven through that area several times and this photo reminds of the never-ending debate about whether the photos of Half Dome taken from the central valley in California were real... But I know Peter would never pull our leg so-to-speak, so this must be real... But where is it?
Mark
... but I fear I may have pointed you in the wrong direction. Looking at the map again we did indeed pass through Coeur D'Alene on the way into WA but I'm now fairly sure we traveled south on US95 before turning west at Lewiston. Looking at Google, the landscape looks very familiar along here (this is another shot from the same road).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/photo...Washington.JPG
Heading south on US 95 there are a number of peaks in the middle distance. Mica Peak looks fairly conical and isolated, as does Mission Mountain, Prospect Mountain, and Gold Hill. The latter 3 are near Potlatch.
Foy
I've had a look at some of the peaks you suggest Foy and I'm not sure any are as 'distinctive' or snow-capped as this one (this was the height of summer - 3rd week of July).
However, as I'm still less that 100% certain of our route (all I know for sure is that this scene is somewhere between Coeur D'Alene, Idaho and Bend, Oregon) I think it's probably only fair to drop this request, after of course saying thanks for the suggestions.
That looks like it COULD be Mount Shasta.
Got to love this game ! When Peter first posted this puzzle I covered many a 'virtual' mile looking for this spot and the same with glc's. I am none the wiser at this point, but I have found so many places I wouldn't have done without this game.
With George's latest clue, I have been finding many interesting places in the Ozarks, Roaring river, Dogwood canyon, Hobbs state park and so on, but can't find that spot.
Don't think so, but how about Devils Den State park ? Didn't think so, need another clue !
Much closer to home than that, Dave.
...........it looks a lot like Grand falls on Shoal creek, Joplin ?
Exactly!!!
I can see where you're coming from (I've cropped my original image and upped the contrast so the shape is clearer) but I don't think it is.
We did head south from Bend on US 97, then past Crater Lake to the west on 62 before picking up US 199 to Crescent City, so at one point (probably around Shady Cove) we were maybe 80-90 miles north of Mt Shasta, but I don't think the sun-dried, rolling hills in the foreground are right for that part of southern Oregon.
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/photo...pped_image.JPG
My pic was taken on US-97 from the north, probably about 20 miles north of Weed.
Mount Adams maybe? Seen from around Yakima?