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Memorial Vista (Memorial Point on Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada) — “Memorial Vista”
Memorial Point on Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, Nevada

Snowy evergreen forests and jumbles of massive boulders meet with the placid waters of Lake Tahoe at Nevada’s Memorial Point. Dreamy, snow-capped mountains loom on the far shore, their precipitous slopes and jagged profiles plainly visible even at a distance of 20 miles.

For somebody such as myself, born and raised in Connecticut, the vast panorama of open water and mountain scenery offered by Lake Tahoe is truly otherworldly and enchanting. If the scenery isn’t amazing enough, it’s also numerically impressive on several metrics. At an elevation of more than 6,000 feet and with a surface area of 190 square miles, there is no other alpine lake so large in the entire nation. And remarkably, Lake Tahoe’s greatest depth approaches 1/3 of a mile, making it the second deepest lake in the country (just behind Crater Lake at 1,900 feet deep).

New Englanders accustomed to seeing their local lakes vanish beneath sheets of ice each year will surely be interested to discover that Lake Tahoe doesn’t freeze over, despite temperatures reminiscent of Northeastern winters and an average snowfall of 125 inches each season. How is that possible? Well, it’s complicated actually, but the abridged explanation is that the lake’s extreme depths help it to retain the heat stored up in its waters over the warmer months. Even in the coldest of winters, the main body of Lake Tahoe rarely ever drops lower than 40° F.

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Secret of the Autumn Hills (Hills of the Housatonic Valley, Bridgewater & New Milford, Connecticut) — “Secret of the Autumn Hills”
Hills of the Housatonic Valley, Bridgewater & New Milford, Connecticut
© 2015 J. G. Coleman

Ethereal mist rises from the deep, rolling hills of the Housatonic River Valley as autumn tightens its grip upon the dark forests.

Bristling with wooded mountains and carved by scenic valleys, the northwest of Connecticut is perhaps an unlikely vestige of remote –even romantic– natural splendor in an otherwise crowded state which is increasingly consumed by the sprawl of civilization.

Connecticut’s Northwest Hills weren’t always so quiet, though. Mills and factories once clustered along its rushing rivers, iron ore was wrested from its mountains, vast forests were felled to fuel blast furnaces and make way for pastureland. But over the last two centuries or so, most of those industries vanished and agriculture deeply declined. Nature was obliged to beautify the resulting vacancies and did so with masterful skill.

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