Tag: “Island Beach State Park”

100 places found.

  1. Ocean Park Motel

    Still looking much as it did when it first opened in 1937, the Ocean Park Motel on 46th Avenue is said to be the first motel ever built in San Francisco. Today the motel remains architecturally intact, and it retains all of its Art Deco charm.

  2. Pt. Dume

    Pt. Dume state beach features some of the most beautiful scenery in LA county.

  3. Big Daddy's

    Venice Beach health food. Well, not quite.

  4. Hookipa Beach Park

    This beach is known as possibly the best place in the world for windsurfing. It is the site of two major world-class competitions.

  5. Huntington Beach Pier

    This was taken during in the early evening twilight hour at the Pier of Huntington Beach. This place has great eats off of Main St., bars, and even some live entertainment depending on the time of the day and night.

  6. Lake Crescent, WA

    A long crescent-shaped lake along Route 101 on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Lake Crescent is surrounded by hiking trails for all abilities and is close to the snow-capped mountains, rain forests and hot springs of Olympic National Park

  7. Bwindi National Park

    Home to the mountain gorillas on the Ugandan side of the Virunga Mountains, but also the main village of the pygmies of the Impenetrable Rainforest. Bwindi isn't much, a frontier town blooming with the small amounts of cash left by the rich tourists who trickle through.

  8. Cabrillo National Park

    Cabrillo National Park offers amazing views of the Pacific Ocean, especially during sunset.

  9. National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido"

    The National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido" is situated in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees at Huesca, Aragón.
    Declared a National Park in 1918 by a Royal Decree, this IUCN Category II National Park becomes every year meeting point for mountaineers and
    families around Europe and even overseas.
    Today it has 156 km² and it's included in the Biosphere Reserve of "Ordesa-Viñamala" declared by UNESCO in 1997.

    Its orography is dominated by the calcareous mass (the biggest of Europe) of the massiff of the Three "Sorores", "Treserols", whose greater elevation is the "Monte Perdido" (3355m), from which in a more or less radial form descend a series of impressive mountainous crests and glacial valleys beeing the most characteristic the "Ordesa Canyon (or Valley)".

    In the French territory it's called "Pyrenees" National Park and it shares with Spain wonderful places like the "Circus of Gavarnie" (a glacial cirque with the highest waterfall in Europe with more than 400 meters of vertical fall) or the impressive "Brecha de Rolando -Brèche de Roland in french-" a natural gap, 40m across and 100m high at an altitude of 2804m.

  10. Alki Beach

    Only ten minutes from downtown Seattle (by car or by water taxi) Alki Beach offers breathtaking views of the Olympic mountains, the city skyline, the Port of Seattle and the summit of Mt. Rainier.