"Where in North America is this?" Section V

This is the Fifth section of a popular mind puzzle first brought to the membership by member Quebec Gen.

General Rules of the "Where in North America is this?" Game
1) Anyone can play -- just follow along and test your mettle about places found in North America.
2) You'll need to be a registered member of this Forum if you want to contribute your own photographs and/or participate in the discussion for each place.
3) You will need to have the ownership or usage rights to any photo that you post on this forum, as per the terms & conditions of Federal copyright law. If you post a photo that you do not own the rights to, Forum Management reserves the right to remove it. As a matter of practical use, we would expect that you would be posting only those photos that you or a close family member have taken.
4) Every photo of a mystery place needs to be unique in some way -- And there should be "visual clues" in the photo to enable us to solve where the mystery location is...

(Inactive -- you can look, but not enter new posts!)
Section I = 33 pages of places you might know
Section II = 28 more pages of places and some REALLY gorgeous photographs!
Section III = 28 more pages of places that might really stump you!
Section IV -- 15 more pages, with some very tricky clues
Section V -- 15 more pages of some very pretty and engaging places....
Section VI -- 15 more pages with more of those "very creative" clues that are nearly as vexing as the images....
Section VII -- Marked by some very clever clues and some VERY challenging puzzles spread over another 15 pages of places you might have seen in your travels in North America.
Section VIII, started on September 22nd with mystery puzzles from a dozen or more states and some new players have joined the merry band of geo-wizards...working on another fifteen pages of puzzles.
Section IX-- Some really beautiful and challenging puzzle mystery locations from all over North America found on another 15 pages.
Section X -- Spanning nearly four months of puzzles of North American locations on 16 more pages.
Section XI -- Started on March 14, 2010.
Section XII-- Started June 11, 2010 with 20 pages of new geo-puzzles from around North America

Section XIII-- Started July 29, 2014 is currently the Active Part of this Game/Contest

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This is not an perfect example of the kind of photo that works for this game, but I bet some of you'll know it anyway (as I am working on the navigation for the rest of the game...)
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-104.jpg
(Photo by Megan Edwards)
Where is this?

This shot is beautiful but it's also a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....d example of the kind of images that we like to include here.... And it's within 1/2 hour of the famous Las Vegas Strip.

Mark

With that clue, it must be the Sheep Range in the DNWR north of LV.

Yep, this is right south west of the visitor center and those are the Sheep Range in the background.

Mark

Where would you be standing if you took a photo like this one:
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-105.jpg

I think I would be standing on Fremont St in Las Vegas.

Two for two, no grass is growing under your feet this week!

Mark

This one has 2-3 visual clues.... Can you identify them?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-106.jpg
(Photo by Megan Edwards)
Where is this? For extra credit (GLC -- do you feel lucky?) what is the street where this would be seen from?

I assume that's the Vegas Monorail.

I can't quite tell what the partially hidden sign says or is, so I'll guess that this particular segment is somewhere along Paradise...

Michael,

Excellent work!

OK, the three visual clues:
1) The crown-like sign is the top of the Las Vegas Hilton Sign
2) That is a car from the Las Vegas Monorail
3) The building in the background is the top of the Las Vegas Convention Center

So this was taken on the corner of Paradise and Convention Center Blvd...

Mark

This is one of my favorite photos from this region -- I can't remember if we've already used it for this game or not... If so, my apologies -- although someone will ID it in record time methinks...
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-107.jpg
(Photo by Mark Sedenquist)
There are two visual clues here -- Where is this place?

The Union Pacific Rail Station in Caliente, NV.

Actually the road just to west is one of my favorite haunts -- its a similar geologic structure to Zion NP without the tourists....

Mark

Where is this, and what is it's significance?

http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryBuilding4.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

Yeah, we needed something east of the Mississippi again, looks like a carriage house or horseless firewagon barn?

Mark

Yes, I believe it did serve as the latter, but that's not what it is known for.

You're missing the 'where' and 'signifigance' parts of the puzzle (but at this point you're well on your way).

How about where Paul Revere started his ride from?

Too early, and too far North.

The event for which this building is most known occured between the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.

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Originally Posted by CalOldBlue

Too early, and too far North.

The event for which this building is most known occured between the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.

**NEWSFLASH**

My internet service provider is having issues in their Las Vegas datacenter... so none of my pictures are rendering.

Here's an embedded version, pending a fix.

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With the hints as to time period, the institutional look to the buildings, and a right smartly sloping hillside/mountainside in the background, I'm guessing the Armory at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

Foy

Specifically, the Armory's firehouse, which is also (now) known as "John Brown's Fort".

Brown held out here after his failed raid in 1859, until finally pried out by US Marines under the command of Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee (aided by J.E.B. Stuart). Both went on to play key roles for the South in the imminent War Between the States.

Harpers Ferry, an important transportation crossroads (at the joining of the Potomac and the Shenandoah; with the C&O canal running along the Potomac) was a major source of military firepower, due to the armory/arsenal built there (construction started in 1799).

The firebrand abolitionist John Brown attempted to incite a slave insurrection and arm same by raiding the arms supplies in Harper's Ferry... didn't work.

As for the town itelf; it started off in Virginia, then became a part of West Virginia (created during the Civil War) in a realignment of state boundaries after the Civil War. The town changed hands 8 times during the war, and played a role in the battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg; a few miles away in Maryland on the other side of the Potomac.

P.S. My internet hosting services is now blaming their network provider, and says "we're working on it". Two hours and counting...
P.P.S. Things are back up; have deleted attachment in previous post. Total down time approx 3:30.

I love the engineering depicted in this photo...
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-108.jpg
(Photo by Dan Sedenquist)
It's not on the west coast, but it's a bit further east than some of my recent images. So what's the name of this bridge or the location? (In fact, it's near Kestrel's home town...)

Looks like somewhere along I70 near Vail?

That's not I-70, but it is very near Vail....Care to make another stab at the location?

Mark

That's the US-24 bridge over Game Creek near Minturn, CO, enroute to Camp Hale, Tennessee Pass and Leadville, CO as one drives south from I-70 between Vail and Beaver Creek. Ski Cooper ski resort is at Tennessee Pass.

Hope that's close enough for me to earn a "two-fer" when combined with Harpers Ferry. As is said here in North Carolina: "Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while". Actually, I drove my son Cooper over that bridge enroute from Glenwood Springs back to Denver on a father/son fly-n-drive in January 2000. We had time to kill and wanted to see Ski Cooper.

Foy

Foy,

Yeah, that's darn close -- I don't have a good enough map to confirm whether or not this is the same bridge... but Dan identified the lower road as being the road that goes over Shrine pass just outside of Gilman. And, of course, that it is US Highway 24. Did you catch the Colorado Dept of Highways truck in the photo?

Excellent work for this two-fer!

Mark

Red Cliff Bridge; US24 and the Eagle River.

I THOUGHT it looked like Western Slope.

But it could be the Red Creek Bridge -- I need to reach Dan and see how his memory is. I've looked at the topo maps and neither of these two bridges look like a perfect match... (weirdly).

Corrected and confirmed -- see below!

Mark

Nah, I think I missed it. The bridge I'm recalling is the Red Cliff bridge, I'm pretty sure. As we returned to I-70 from Ski Cooper, I pondered my CO DeLorme and wondered if the road from Red Cliff was open to Vail Pass. I should have known better, and sure enough the road was closed just on the far side of Red Cliff town limits. I correctly recalled signage on I-70 directing to US 24 (not CO 24) and Minturn, and stole a glance at Mapquest to ID the stream crossing there. Had I zoomed out and seen Red Cliff, I'd have followed the creek east of there to Vail Pass. I didn't do that, and I'm pretty sure I got it wrong.

One of these days, have a look at the historical significance of Camp Hale. Many denizens of the Western US owe a lot to the individuals who served there, not only for their military actions, but also for what they collectively accomplished after the survivors returned from overseas.

Oh well, I'm batting .500 today, anyway.

Foy

Dan just wrote and confirmed that Don was correct! It's the bridge that crosses the Eagle River just downstream from the town of Red Cliff.

Damn, you guys are good at this!

Here's a satellite image of this exact bridge location....

Great call, Don.

Foy

Here's another "east of the Rockies" shot.

http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryTavern.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

Where is this? I have "massaged" the tavern sign to eliminate the name.

This may take some clues.

I don't see enough to really get going on this one.

..........Williamsburg, VA.

Colonial style brick (I think) and light colored sandy soil are the clues I'm relying on for this one. Those, and the mention of "tavern".

Foy

Yes, "Kings Arms" tavern in Colonial Williamsburg.

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... light colored sandy soil are the clues

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Foy, You got this from the color of the dirt? Holy Toledo! Obviously, I am not in the same pay grade (for this game) on this!

Excellent work.

Mark

Mark,

You're too kind. I wouldn't have made the guess based solely on soil color, but I also wouldn't have guessed Williamsburg if heavy red clay soil had been evident. Had it been, another East Coast locale with Colonial brick and architecture which better matched the soil conditions would have been offered. Hillsborough, NC's historic district immediately comes to mind, as do a handful of others.

Foy

Memo to me: next time "Photoshop" the soil color to something else.

This one may too easy, but there is a sufficiency of natural-colored dirt in the foreground....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-109.jpg
Photo by Mark Sedenquist.

Where is this? What's the building known for in current use?

That's the visitor centre at Kelso [formerly the depot] in the Mojave national preserve.

I like the shadows on the wall from the late afternoon raking sun!

And I thought I really ought to add this photo of the front of the building --
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...elso-Party.jpg
This was for the official grand opening party in 2006!

Mark