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12 Amazing Places In The USA that you probably Never Heard Of!

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Last updated: August 7, 2019 7:30 am
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The Wave ,  Arizona


The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located in Arizona, United States, near its northern border with Utah.These undulating yellow and orange rocks date back to the Jurassic Period, approximately 160 to 180 million years ago. They had been waiting  all this time  to be admired by the entire world.  Due the  fragility has meant that only 20 people a day can visit the wave.

Skagit Valley Tulip Fields. Washington

The Skagit Valley is located in the northwest corner of the state of Washington, United States.  If the Dutch tulips fascinated you, wait to see the Skagit Valley field in Washington. It is the second of the most beautiful flower fields in America, thanks to its one hundred kinds of tulips. The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is a tulip festival in the Skagit Valley of Washington State, United States. It takes place annually in the spring, from April 1 to April 30.

Watson Lake. Arizona

Watson Lake is one of two reservoirs at Granite Dells, 4 miles from Prescott ,in Yavapai County and the state of Arizona, in the southern part of the country, 3,200 km west of Washington, D.C , which was formed in the early 1900s when the Chino Valley Irrigation District built a dam on Granite Creek. The city of Prescott bought the reservoir and surrounding land in 1997 to preserve it as recreational land .

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks. New Mexico

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a small nature reserve of the National Monument type in the State of New Mexico. It protects a desert valley with bizarre forms of erosion in volcanic rock. President Bill Clinton dedicated it to his last days in office in 2001 and transferred the administration to the Bureau of Land Management, an agency under the US Department of the Interior.

Oneonta Gorge.Oregon

The Oneonta Gorge is a gorge that belongs to the Columbia Gorge in the US state of Oregon. The US Forest Service has designated it as a botanical area because of the unique plants that grow there. The basalt walls are home to a wide variety of ferns, mosses and lichens, many of which are endemic to the Columbia Gorge.

Grand Prismatic. Yellowstone

The Grand Prismatic Fountain, or also known in English as ‘Grand Prismatic Spring’, in Yellowstone National Park is the largest source of hot springs in the United States, and the third largest in the world,  after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser Basin in the state of Wyoming.

Dry Tortugas National Park. Florida

The Dry Tortugas National Park  is a national park of the United States located in Florida, composed of a group of seven small islands composed of reefs and sand, located about 113 kilometers west of Key West, in the Florida Keys, in the Gulf of Mexico. It is one of the most remote and inaccessible of the American national parks.

Bannerman’s Castle.New York

Only 50 kilometers from the city of New York, we can find a “castle” …this was once an old military warehouse, which today is one of the most mysterious places in the country. Francis Banerman VI.began building a castle on the island to hold gunpowder. Later he moved into it himself. In the castle, he and his family did not live long because of the fires and explosions that took place in it.This castle is considered haunted today.

Horseshoe Bend, Arizona

Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped incised meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, in the United States. Horseshoe Bend is located 5 miles (8.0 km) downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Page. It is accessible via hiking a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) round trip from U.S. Route 89, but an access road  also reaches the geological structure, as it is part of a state park.

Watkins Glen State Park, New York

Watkins Glen State Park in the United States] Watkins Glen State Park is located in Schuyler County and the state of New York, in the eastern part of the country, 400 km north of the capital city Washington, D.C. 291 meters above sea level lies the Watkins Glen State Park.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park. New Mexico

The Carlsbad Caverns National Park (Carlsbad Caverns National Park) is a United States national park located in southeastern New Mexico, in the Sierra de Guadalupe, in the same mountain range as the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.The park comprises 83 independent caves including the Lechuguilla Cave, the deepest limestone cave and the third largest in the United States, with 489 meters deep. The Carlsbad Cavern contains one of the deepest underground chambers in the world.

Mariposa Grove. California

The Mariposa Grove is a forest of rare mammoth trees or giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) near Wawona, in the far south of Yosemite National Park, in the US state of California. It is the largest collection of giant sequoias in the park and one of the 68 sequoia groves in the Sierra Nevada, their natural range. Two of the trees in the Mariposa Grove, the Washington Tree and the Grizzly Giant, are among the 30 largest giant sequoias in the world.

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