Scenic drive through Monument Valley Located in northern Arizona, Monument Valley is a collection of crimson and orange mesas and sandstone buttes maintained by Navajo Nation Parks and Recreation.
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Olivia Rose,
AZCentral.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Moab, Utah, offers stunning natural landscapes including arches, buttes, and towering pinnacles.
Much of the rest of the hike was dry and traversed gentle gravel bars or smooth limestone expanses, skirting the edges of grassy bluffs and rocky cliffs.
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Eva Frederick,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Sep. 2025
Perched atop a bluff near the Bull Run Mountains is 50 West Vineyards.
These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.
Thousands of years ago, the 52,000-plus acres now known as Mesa Verde National Park were home to the Ancestral Pueblo People, who built a series of sophisticated stone dwellings in the cliffs here.
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Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
In this sequel to The Ice Road that trades Canadian ice flats for cliff-edge drop-offs and hairpin passes, Neeson’s grieving character Mike McCann heads to the Himalayas to scatter his brother’s ashes.
These shoes keep me comfortable all day, even when rock hopping and scrambling to get to the crag.
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Mary Beth Skylis,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Aug. 2025
Access to its sandstone crags is impacted by seasonal water levels: In summer, climbers often reach the cliffs by boat and ascend right from the water; in winter, the lake gets drained.
The farther away from a scarp, the lesser the hazard.
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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.
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