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The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is a Fairmont hotel on the eastern shore of Lake Louise, near Banff, Alberta. The original hotel was gradually developed at the turn of the 20th century by the Canadian Pacific Railway and was thus "kin" to its predecessors, the Banff Springs Hotel and the Château Frontenac. The original wooden Rattenbury Wing ...
The Fairmont Dubai property was the first Fairmont branded hotel in the Middle East. [12] In 2003, Fairmont introduced Fairmont Heritage Place, a chain of timeshare hotels, with the first opening in Mexico. [13] In 2004, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc. paid $70 million to take full control of the management company that runs its properties.
The log cabin at Lake Louise (1891–1893) was perhaps a forerunner to this concept. [19] The subsequent adoption of the log design not only created a pioneer appearance, but also provided the necessary insulation for a cold mountainous region. [20] CN copied the concept at Jasper Park Lodge. [21]
Goleta Beach is a region of coastline located near Goleta, California, just east of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus. A portion of the shore of Goleta Bay is managed by the County of Santa Barbara, as the Goleta Beach County Park (GBCP). The beach itself is partly man-made as sand was spread onto an existing sandspit in ...
Southern Pacific closed its Goleta station in the 1970s. Eventually, Goleta Beautiful, a civic organization, obtained rights to the abandoned building which was moved on November 18–19, 1981 to nearby Lake Los Carneros County Park. The park is the site of historic Stow House and Lake Los Carneros with walking trails and bird watching. The ...
Goleta has several parks, including Stow Park, Girsh Park, Jonny D. Wallis Neighborhood Park, Lake Los Carneros and Coronado Butterfly preserve, the largest [50] overwintering grove of the Monarch butterfly, [51] providing street access to the Ellwood Mesa Open Space [52] on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean with beach access from UCSB. [53]
Carneros Creek is a southward flowing stream originating in the Santa Ynez Mountains, in Santa Barbara County, California.It flows to Lake Los Carneros Park, under U. S. Highway 101 where it runs in a man-made channel diverted to the west of Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, until it meets Goleta Slough, from whence its waters flow to the Santa Barbara Channel of the Pacific Ocean.
Goleta Slough State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area in Goleta in Santa Barbara County on California's south coast. The SMCA covers 0.25 square miles (0.65 km 2 ). The SMCA protects marine life by limiting the removal of marine wildlife from within its borders.