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Afton Alps is a ski area, which hosts a collection of ski and snowboard trails, located along the St. Croix River in the northeast corner of Denmark Township, Washington County, south of Afton, Minnesota in the United States. There are nearly 300 acres (1.2 km 2) skiable at Afton Alps. The ski hill has 350 feet (110 m) of vertical drop.
Afton (/ ˈ æ f t ə n / AF-tən) [4] is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,886 at the 2010 United States Census . [ 5 ] It lies on a small bay where Valley Creek empties into the St. Croix River , several miles north of its confluence with the Mississippi River .
The Alps are split into five climatic zones, each with different vegetation. The climate, plant life, and animal life vary among the different sections or zones of the mountains. The lowest zone is the colline zone, which exists between 500 and 1,000 m (1,600 and 3,300 ft), depending on the location.
3.6.2022 Global heating is turning white Alps green, study finds. (Source:The Guardian) 28.4.2022 Largest-ever marine reptile tooth discovered in the Swiss Alps. (Source:Swissinfo.ch) 25.1.2022 Plastic snowfall in the Alps. (Source:Phys.org) 8.12.2021 A climber found a trove of gems in the Alps amid a 47-year-old plane wreck of Air India Flight ...
Lutsen Mountains is a ski area in the north central United States; an Alpine skiing area located on the North Shore region of Cook County in northeastern Minnesota.It is home to 95 runs across 4 mountains, with a maximum vertical drop of 825 feet. [3]
The following are images from various Alps-related articles on Wikipedia. Image 1 Stemless gentian ( Gentiana acaulis ) (from Alps ) Image 2 Tectonic map of southern Europe and the Middle East, showing tectonic structures of the western Alpide mountain belt (from Alpine orogeny )
Minnesota (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə ˈ s oʊ t ə / ⓘ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west.
Hibbing is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.The population was 16,214 at the 2020 census. [4] The city was built on mining the rich iron ore of the Mesabi Iron Range and still relies on that industrial activity today.