"Where in North America?" --- Section IX

[Mark Sedenquist]

This is the Ninth 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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Another one to slow you geo-wizards down a bit.... (maybe)

(photo by Gerald Thurman)

Where is this?
What's the name of the river?

(Notice to GLC: I cropped it so you can see the color of the dirt....)

[Mark Sedenquist]

It's located in a national monument and the river name is five letters long....

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

Yampa, and Dinosaur National Monument?

Upstream from this place?

[Mark Sedenquist]

What's it going to take to stump you?

Yep, that's the Yampa River

Actually, since you are on such a roll... How about this one? -- This is also the Yampa River, but where is this spot? Not the area, but where would you be standing to see this view?

(Photo by Gerald Thurman)

[Mark Sedenquist]

And I am not entirely positive that I really know where this was taken from, here's where I think it is:

This is the entrance to the Cross Mountain Gorge which is a still-wild section of the Yampa River. This gorge is marked by a series of nearly continous rapids for three miles. The canyon is only 1/2 mile wide and nearly 1200 feet tall. This photo was taken from the Twelvemile Gulch Road which is about 16 miles west of Maybell, Colorado on the edge of the Dinosaur National Monument.

Isn't that a gorgeous shot? I'd love to be in a kayak and heading into the canyon!

Mark

[Mark Sedenquist]

Do you know what the official name of this place is? And, of course, where it is?

(Photo by Gerald Thurman)

[CalOldBlue]

Women in Military Service For America Memorial

Entrance to Arlington Cemetary, Arlington VA.

It's at the end of the drive in, just before you take a left into the Cemetary proper. Directly behind the photographer at the point where this picture is taken would be road to the bridge leading to the Lincoln Memorial.

[Mark Sedenquist]

Don, It took you an entire hour to get this one solved -- OK, ok, that's even a more complete location ID than I could have done....

Must be about time for some more of your arty photos?

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

Reconnected with an old Cal buddy/roomate last night after a 3 decade gap... not at the top of my game right now.

Anyway, here's a quickee, while I go out for my weekly burn-cigar-while-prepping-lawn-for-cutting routine:

What is this called, what commercial establishment is it part of, what river runs near here, and what US highway does it sit next to?


Photo: Don Casey (some smudging to hide a critical detail).

[Mass Tim]

That's the Ship Ashore Resort, near the Smith River, off CA-101.