cuesta

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Noun
  • Within minutes, guests can be standing beneath the stone arches of Arches National Park, 4 miles away, or surveying mesas and buttes in Canyonlands National Park, 30 miles southwest, where the Colorado and Green rivers have carved the landscape for centuries.
    Cari Shane, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Enchantment's accommodations include casitas and suites, with designs and decor inspired by the Southwest desert landscape and views of Sedona's red rock buttes.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In preparation for that cliff, tribal leaders in Montana have started culling bison herds to feed their community members on one reservation where the population is disproportionately food insecure.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Imposing granite cliff faces like Half Dome and El Capitan, serene meadows and forests, and the picturesque Merced River, all tend to come to mind.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second morning, Bob hunkered down next to a thick spruce on a frosty hogback between Disappointment Lake and Snowbank.
    Bob Cary, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That loop yields a two-mile hike with 300 feet of climbing, not counting the short spur trail up to the hogback.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Perched on the eastern escarpment of the Great Rift Valley with the Ewaso Narok River to the east and the slopes of Mount Kenya to the south, andBeyond Suyian Lodge offers endless panoramic views and access to a wide variety of landscapes, from savannas to rivers and Vechellia woodlands.
    Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
  • This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.
    Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on the shores of Lake Michigan features miles of sand beach, lush forests, clear inland lakes, unique flora and fauna, towering bluffs, an island lighthouse, coastal villages, picturesque farmsteads and more.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The family lives near the bluff in Searcy County.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The farther away from a scarp, the lesser the hazard.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That is a clear fingerprint of an earthquake, one that, according to the rounding and wear and sloping of the scarp, occurred about 2.6 million years ago.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • Panahi is more concerned with preserving this moment in time, this potential precipice of change, for Iran and for all of us.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Toews spent his night on the precipice of great plays.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Clark held his nerve to the end and was right there with him, even after a rare errant shot into the barranca on the 17th.
    Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • His ball landed on the barranca, one of the steep-sided gullies at The Los Angeles Country Club.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
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“Cuesta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuesta. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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