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Gates of the Mountains Wilderness (then known as the Gates of the Mountains Wild Area) was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters and which was the subject of Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire. U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles.
The Cilician Gates or Gülek Pass is a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the narrow gorge of the Gökoluk River. Its highest elevation is about 1000m. [2] The Cilician Gates have been a major commercial and military artery for millennia. [3]
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve lies to the west of the Dalton Highway, centered on the Brooks Range and covering the north and south slopes of the mountains. The park includes the Endicott Mountains and part of the Schwatka Mountains. The majority of Gates of the Arctic is designated as national park, in which only subsistence ...
Mount Kiev is the highest point in the Endicott Mountains which are a subrange of the Brooks Range. [1] It is set five miles (8.0 km) west of the Dalton Highway on the northeast boundary of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
The Rocky Mountains in the region do not exceed 10,000 feet (3,000 m). Helena National Forest Crow Creek Falls is in the Elkhorn Mountains section of the Helena National Forest. The grizzly bear has a sustained population in the northwestern section of the forest, [3] especially in the Scapegoat Wilderness.
Sergeant Chris D. Washington checking his Topographic map during a morning deer hunt in Kilgore, Texas A topographic map of Stowe, Vermont with contour lines Part of the same map in a perspective shaded relief view illustrating how the contour lines follow the terrain Sheet #535 (2013 version; second digital edition) of MTN50 Spanish National Topographic map series, covering Algete town (near ...
TopoZone was one of the first topographic mapping site on the web, providing visitors with free viewing and printing of the full set of United States Geological Survey topographic maps covering the entire United States. The maps are produced by the USGS, which encourages the distribution of their maps through business partners.
The Dzungarian Gate, also known as the Altai Gap, is a geographically and historically significant mountain pass between China and Central Asia. [1] It has been described as the "one and only gateway in the mountain-wall which stretches from Manchuria to Afghanistan , over a distance of three thousand miles [4,800 km]."