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The Foothills Parkway is a national parkway which traverses the foothills of the northern Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. The 72.1-mile (114 km) parkway will connect U.S. Route 129 (U.S. 129) along the Little Tennessee River in the west with Interstate 40 (I-40) along the Pigeon River in the east.
The steepness of uplift has created a coastal ridge forming a drainage divide parallel to the coast. The drainage pattern between Usal Creek and the Mattole River is a series of short streams with steep channel gradients. [4] Like the surrounding coast, the Lost Coast experiences a wet season and a dry season. The wet season ranges from October ...
A rare vagrant Ivory Gull on a Central Coast beach. The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay.It lies northwest of Los Angeles and south of the San Francisco Bay Area, and includes the rugged, rural, and sparsely populated stretch of coastline known as Big Sur.
Tips. You can see up to 50 miles from the Foothills Parkway, with the Smoky Mountains to the east and the Cumberland Mountains to the west. From its turnoffs, you can see the farthest edges of the ...
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.
Cabrillo Highway, scenic drive through the rocky headlands near the Pacific coast. Designated December 14, 1971, in Santa Barbara County: US 101 at Las Cruces to Lompoc; SR 227 near Oceano to US 101 in Pismo Beach; US 101 in San Luis Obispo to SR 35 in Daly City. San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway (also an All-American Road), scenic drive along ...
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for four missing boaters near Bodega Bay in California around 6:30 p.m. Sunday following a rescue mission that lasted approximately 57 hours. “The ...
Baja California was mistakenly thought to be an island rather than a peninsula. The Californias region, which comprises California and the Baja California Peninsula, includes many coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean. California is in the United States; and the Baja California Peninsula includes the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and ...