The U.S. contains all nine biomes, that’s why a lot of people don’t have a passport. I don’t, but I’ve still been to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. Because they are U.S. territories, I didn’t need a passport.
thank presidents like teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilson for understanding that america needs to preserve these amazing places and keep them maintained and accessible to everybody
As a New Mexican I have been to white sand’s multiple times and it’s very cool to walk on the cold desert white sand and see the vast sapphire blue sky against the white is beautiful
White Sands is amazing. At dusk the colors are astonishing -- the distant mountains turn red/orange/pink, and the dunes turn blue/purple and the sky is more colors of blue that you knew existed. I've been there several times. Never when it was cool, tho'. It does get much cooler at night, but I've only been there at the height of summer. The sledding on the dunes is fun. The Tularosa Basin, where White Sands is located, played an important role in the American space and nuclear programs. Robert Goddard did his rocket work over the mountains to the east, in Roswell, NM. A bunch of the space program and Air Force rocket tests were done at the White Sand Missile Range. Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, NM housed the Holloman Air Development Center and the Aero-Medical Field Laboratory. They had the rocket sled used in developing equipment for the space and defense programs and trained Ham and the other chimps used in the space program tests. It also was an alternative landing site for the space shuttle. I think, it landed there once. There is a space museum in Alamogordo, which is worth a visit. The Trinity Site, where the first nuclear bomb was detonated, is on the northern end of the missile range. Twice a year, spring and fall, you can tour the site. I visited after interning at a DOE/DOD lab where a bunch of the Manhattan Project work had be done, during WWII. It is a pretty eerie experience. If you go to White Sands, take tons of water and sun screen. The sand is reflective and you will sunburn in all kinds of weird spots. Call before you go. White Sands National Park is inside the missile range. The park can be shut during test firings.
The Portland Japanese Garden is great. It was orginally designed by a professor from Tokyo, has won awards and acclaim from Japanese publications, and was called "the most beautiful and authentic Japanese garden in the world outside Japan." by one of Japans ambassadors. I've been there several times and it is absolutely beautiful
I absolutely adore Japanese gardens & am in the process of turning part of my yard into one (Tennessee). We've got a lot of rusty colors in our natural plants & orange dirt that is blending well with many of the Japanese maples, pines & cypress nestled in among the native trees & flowers. ^^ We've got a lot of natural stone & sloping landscape that lends itself to a Japanese style as well, minus the coastal rains.
Older American here. I live southern New Mexico about 2 hours south of White Sands. Been there several times. It's unique. I tell people it's like going to a really big beach without an ocean. You can see the large expanse of white sand off in the distance over 50 miles away once you drive up into the nearby mountain's. The whole area is mountainous. White Sands is 4235 feet / 1.3 kilometers above sea level. Been there multiple times. Don't go in the middle of the summer. Temperatures can exceed 128 deg. F / 53 deg C on a hot day. In the winter temperatures can drop to just above 32 deg. F / 0 deg. C. It can be windy so dress appropriately. There is a really nice Air & Space museum just up the road in Alamogordo, NM, just 15 miles from White Sands. #1 [the Badlands] is also amazing.
I’m retired now but I was an over-the-road truck driver for decades. The job provided me the opportunity to plan my own itinerary to a certain extent. I’m so fortunate to have seen many amazing places across the USA.
Although I have heard of a few of these, as an American, I can honestly say I was learning right along with you. Now I have a list of places to visit on future adventures. Thanks for opening my eyes to some of the beauty of my own country.🤠 He should have included Palo Duro Canyon in Texas and Vasquez Rocks in southern California. Check them out online.
I love these videos because I learn so much about my own country. Its hard when in 65 years of life, I'm still learning about stunning places in my own state...Texas! I love your appreciation of America.
I live at the base of a mountain range. I went camping here a few years ago and was BLOWN AWAY. There is just not another place on earth like it. It's so enchanting! I loved it!
I live near the Hoh rainforest. It's unlike any other forest I've been in, but definitely wear leg gaiters or rainboots. The Palouse is my mom's favorite place on earth; her happy place.
The Japanese Garden is right across the street from the Portland Rose Test Garden, which overlooks the city and is free to stroll. Its absolutely PHENOMENAL, like every color rose you could want to see 🫶🥲
I've been to all but two, the crater in Hawaii, and the castle in California. I'm not sure it's the most beautiful, but overall I think the rain forest was the most fun. It's a great place to camp, and there are some amazing natural hot springs. The grassland was the one that surprised me the most. I didn't expect it to be nearly as beautiful as it is.
As a New Mexican I've been to both White Sands and the Bisti Badlands. Millions of years ago the Bisti was a swamp on the edge of a shallow sea. It's truly an awesome place to hike. White Sands is one of our newest National Parks. It's an ever changing landscape of white gypsum dunes. Sledding on the dunes is a favorite thing to do there.
Ive been to 6 of those and live about 100 Kilometer from no 8 the Hoh Rain Forest and normal go bicycle camping there every year. For my money the Pacific Northwest and 4 Corners areas are the most consistently beautiful areas in North America. Everywhere has beautiful things to go and see, but these regions ARE the beautiful things to see, its everywhere, surrounding you, at all times.
A personal favorite: Mount St. Helens (Loowit) The amount of mountain *missing* (due to eruption) is terrifying The fact that it blew ~40 years ago (as opposed to 10000) just really changes the experience of the "missing mountaintop." There are photos of it. There is news footage. Older folks talk about how annoying the ash was. Sometimes, geological time happens "now"
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I’ve been to Molokini, and it truly is amazing. I was just a kid at the time but the amount of fish is mind blowing. I found a little baby shark and ended up following it for about 20 minutes as it swam in between the reefs.
I've played in white sands in New Mexico about 1/2 a dozen times. I've sandboarding and sand car dune jumping. Here is the thing. Being gypsum the sun bounces off of the sand and will give you a sun burn in strange places. Like the under side of your nose or your arms. Like the sun is coming from your feet.
Yep, I visited #10. White Sands National Park way back in 1985 as an 11 year old kid. It was later featured in the Young Guns II (1989) film as the place where a supposed still alive Billy the Kid met someone in the 1930s if i recall. So when i saw it in the film, I was like, "Yep...been there." White Sands was also an alternative landing strip for the Space Shuttle. It did make a couple of landings there over the years. It was used whenever there was bad weather over Florida, and they couldn't delay the landing any longer.
Burney Falls in Northern California is a hidden gem that's not well known. It's in an arid high altitude almost desert area. These beautiful waterfalls erupt out of nowhere with a huge volume of water from (seemingly) no source in the arid high desert. In reality, it comes from ground water that emerges at the surface in that location. It's a little weird walking upstream of the falls wondering where that massive amount of water is coming from.
Years ago, I saw Yahoo's photo of the day. It was beautiful, so I wondered where it was taken. I was thinking middle east. To my surprise it was in my state. It was Analope Canyon, Az. I went there and it was absolutely beautiful. The Navajo Nation is very protective of it, as they should be.
I have been to White Sands, NM (in maybe 1988? I was about 23ish) and it was one of the most amazing places!!! I wanted to stay longer, but i was with other people who were a-h0les and thought it was boring or something. I wanted to get to the very top of one and slude all the way down or even run all the way down. Id go back in a heartbeat if i could!!
White Sands N.P. is New Mexico, Great Sand Dunes National Park is in Colorado, and only 230 sq. miles (total area), Sleeping Bear Dunes Nat'l. Lakeshore is on Michigan's Leelanau peninsula and a mere 111 sq. miles - if anyone is into lots of sand.
We have a few Japanese gardens around Norfolk virginia where I live as well. There's kitakyushu park at Norfolk Botanical Gardens, Miyazaki Japanese Garden at Redwing Park in Virginia Beach, and although it's Taiwanese rather than Japanese, there's the Pagoda and Oriental Gardens in Downtown Norfolk which has Sly Koi Pond, the largest Koi pond on the east coast.
Watching from Washington, just got back from a few week tours around the state. The rainforest is 1 of 7 temperate ones (Same class as the Amazon) Also the Gorge around Quincy and George is beautiful.
A few cool spots near me are Lake Drummond, and the Blue Ridge. Lake Drummond is basically a clearing in the middle of a massive swamp with giant trees sticking out of the water and if there's no wind, its like a giant mirror. The blue ridge has some breathtaking and precarious lookouts.
I have been to White Sands National Monument a few times. Nearest civilization is Alamogordo, then on the other side is the Organ Mountains and the town of Las Cruces. Sand is usually a silica compound, this is gypsum, which is the result of years, possibly millions, of evaporation in the Tularosa valley that leaves this soluble mineral behind. It's a very isolated area of this basin where the gypsum has broken down into fine crystals that look like white sand. It's a ln alkaline material so not every plant can grow in it. Yucca seems to grow well and that plus a few grasses are among the few things you will see in the dunes. Birds, reptiles, a few mammals are among the limited wildlife species that live there. The US national parks service maintains the public access area of the dunes and the visitors center. Much of the area is controlled by federal government for department of defense and NASA.
On the same land as the Japanese Tea Garden in Portland also has the experimental Rose test garden. I used to live by the Portland Airport. Nearby is a Catholic Grotto that is beautiful lush green landscape
Close to the Palouse are the scab lands where the floods stripped the soil and deposited it on the Palouse and all the way to the Willamette Valley I Oregon.
I like what you saod about Oregon. My granddad always said Oregon has a piece of every other state. I was surprised the video didn't include Craters of the Moon state park, ID, or Badlands state park, SD.
He forgot the Painted Hills in Oregon and the Napali Coast in Hawaii. Joshua Tree National Park in California is insanely beautiful too. It is like you stepped on another planet.
I’ve been to antelope canyon, looks exactly like it shows in the video. Unfortunately it started raining so our hike ended early but definitely a surreal place
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I’m from Maui and I agree Molokini crater is not a good choice for this list. Haleakala Crater Park or the Road to Hana on Maui are both way better choices and incredibly beautiful.
I happen to live in a gorgeous area as well. Look up pictures of and around Lake Coeur d'Alene, Hayden Lake, Lake Pend Oreille, Priest Lake, Route of the Hiawatha bike trail and Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes. Northern Idaho is awesome. It doesn't get much better.
I've been to # 10, and # 1. They are both amazing. There are other places in New Mexico, that are also amazing, like Carlsbad caverns and Chaco canyon, and Shiprock along with Camel rock.
Not really. Watkins Glen, Letchworth, and Stony Brook are amazing and those are just 3 state parks that are equal or better than national parks. Adirondack State Park is the largest park in the nation and these are just NY there are so many other state parks in other states that are on the same level.
Hocking Hills in Ohio has a section that's similar to Oneonta Gorge. I wish I could post photos for you to compare. It has waterfalls and a stream that carved out a magnificent, rocky, mossy chasm you can hike through. Each state has something surreal in the natural areas.
I’ve been to Antelope Canyon 3 times. This clip doesn’t begin to show the beauty there. You are required to hire a Navajo guide to take you through the Canyon, which is important because during the summer monsoon rains, flash flooding can be a danger. In 1997, 11 tourists were drowned in a flash flood in Lower A telomeres Canyon.
My family lived in Hobbs, New Mexico in the early 60's when I was 10-13 years old. White Sands was a bit far for a day trip but we went there several times over the years. The park is on a HUGE missile base where the US tests missiles and rockets and the park is closed sometimes for missile tests. Also on the base is the Trinity site where they tested the first atomic bomb. A couple times a year you can visit the Trinity site with a convoy of other visitors and a military escort. I went with my dad once and in the 60's you could still pick up little pieces of a green radioactive glasslike material made from sand fused by the explosion.
I think the real take-home here is that no matter where you are, there's something amazing to be seen, and that you tend to undervalue the local stuff because it's familiar. It isn't surprising that you were underwhelmed by the Iberian-inspired castle. I've travelled a bit and lived in Western Michigan and the Finger Lakes area of Upstate New York - both notably beautiful regions. I feel like a lot of countries the world over could be a match for a similarly sized slice of the US, and that most areas in the US have stunning places, but they might not be well known.
I live in New Mexico and I have been there. Every August when there is a full moon there is a big evening gathering at White Sands with a huge drum circle and a bon fire and music and dancing. it is quite wonderful, although they make everyone leave the dunes area after midnight because you cannot camp there. There are cabins and campgrounds outside of the park though so it is a lot of fun. And White Sands happens to be a place where there was some atomic testing done during WW2 while the first atomic bomb was being built at Los Alamos, about250 miles north of White Sands. New Mexico has a lot of Military history, science history and space history tied up in its background, probably because the state is quite large but doesn't have a huge population and has some remote areas.
Portland, OR Japanese Gardens. Done really well because the Japanese Sister Helped build it! Then go up to the Mansion on top of the hill, and see the most incredible view that goes all the way to Mount Hood!
I believe someone else mentioned this. But the videos that you have been watching hopefully gives you an idea as to why so many Americans don't even have passports. There are SO MANY beautiful places in the USA, a person could spend their entire life right here trying to visit all the wonderful places in our own country.
Yeah, definitely, or probably there are a lot of U.S. viewers who are learning and seeing things for the first time in your videos. The U.S. is a big place. I am from the New Orleans area in Louisiana.
While I don't mean to diminish any of America's beauty, my husband has been to both Alaska and Norway, and said the fjords were gorgeous in both. I've only seen Norway's, so if you've been there... I really thought the part at 13:00 was Petra. Had not idea we had a similar structure in the US!
i have been discorvering so much of my country (USA) through your channel! Ive lived on the east coast of America for my whole life and have never travelled further west than Washington DC
The Glacier looks like what I imagine standing on the back side of Niagara Falls would look like We actually have our own version of the Australian Outback
I live in the Seattle area, and there is a very large and diverse Asian population in the PNW (Pacific Northwest). One of the places that I think is amazing that doesn't get a lot of attention is the Pacific Bonsai Museum, just a short drive south of Seattle (in Federal Way, WA). There are at least 50 bonsai trees on permanent display with additional rotating exhibits, most of it outside, all of it incredible. These miniature trees are works of art that take years if not decades to prune and create. In Seattle are the Amazon glass spheres, which are three huge glass spheres connected together to create an indoor greenhouse with literal walls of plants, with a restaurant and bar among the 40,000 plants. I was born and raised in Arizona and Florida, so I was used to a lot of open water and open desert before I moved up here. It took me quite a while to not feel claustrophobic from all the trees everywhere. On daily commutes it can feel like you're driving right through a forest way out in the country and not just a few miles from a huge city. If you do decide to visit the PNW, my only piece of advice is to wear waterproof shoes, because regular shoes can take forever to dry out. lol
I've been to both parts of Antelope Canyon, and it does feel like you're on another planet. Actually, large parts of northern Arizona and southern Utah look like you're on another planet. There's a waterfall (Grand Falls on the Little Colorado River) not far from Flagstaff that looks like chocolate milk, like something from Willy Wonka. It's also on the Rez.
I'm from New Mexico and I guarantee you that white sands is pheromonal especially in astrophotography, same goes for antelope canyon in AZ and Ashi Slay NM which is actually label as Ashiin... note they are far more wonders hidden within New Mexico.
I never knew about most of these places. It is amazing what Mother Nature has given us and through time, how nature transformed them. I really like the ice caves since that is something one cannot find elsewhere. The Japanese Gardens were so colorful and a very peaceful experience. If one goes to places in New Mexico and Arizona, the paths through the rock formations, double check the weather for flash floods. There have been people being drown and swept away because of the high walled, narrow paths and there is no time to get to high ground. The U.S. has so many and different natural developments and climates in one Country. Does the whole European continent have as many different natural places to visit? I always wanted to visit Switzerland, Germany, Austria because I like the mountains. I assume in Europe; it might be easier to visit different locations through your train system. In the U.S., attractions are so far apart, we have trains, cars, buses, but there will be transfers from one direction to the other to get to one spot. Even taking the planes to one state, you might need a rental car to drive to the attractions, it still might be hundreds of miles from the airport.
Our food choices come from all over the world. Immigrants bring their culture and share the best of their foods with us. They are then incorporated into our daily lives so we have almost unlimited options when eating out. And yes, we also have many healthy meals - we do not eat sugary, high carb food for every meal!
I am 40 yrs old. I have literally traveled 10s of thousands of miles. I have been to 10 states seen several thousands of lage cities, national parks, national treasures, etc, but that is less then 2% of America. If you think about it I have traveled less then 20% of New Mexico alone, and this state is if I remember right around the size of Ireland. We 1 1/2 to 1 1/3. To drive from Farmington NM, to Phoenix AZ. is roughly 7 1/2 hrs. From here to Chicago is an average of 20+ hours pending on if you abide by the speed limit, and mind you thats without site seeing. The only way you are going to see all of America in 1 life time is if you take a plane or helicopter with only taking fuel stops, and even then you'll only see 5% of the nation if you're lucky
When my father was stationed at White Sands Missile Range while in the Army we visited the White Sands National Monument and I can attest to it's beauty and the pure white sand.
We don’t have castles here in the US, that’s why we go to Europe! But the US is so massive that we have virtually every type of geography there is. I’ve spent most of my life in the western parts of America. For context, from Florence, Oregon (west coast) to Portland, Maine (east coast) is over 3,300 miles. For me, from Idaho, it’s a 10 hour drive to the west coast. I know people do it, but to drive from my house to the east coast would take about a week. I believe my state is close to the size of Italy. In reality, most of our states are the size of European countries. I’ve not seen every state in the US and I’m old. But there are beautiful places here.
been waitin on this one!! these places are BEYOND words
They are beautiful ❤️
The U.S. contains all nine biomes, that’s why a lot of people don’t have a passport. I don’t, but I’ve still been to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. Because they are U.S. territories, I didn’t need a passport.
thank presidents like teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilson for understanding that america needs to preserve these amazing places and keep them maintained and accessible to everybody
As a New Mexican I have been to white sand’s multiple times and it’s very cool to walk on the cold desert white sand and see the vast sapphire blue sky against the white is beautiful
White Sands is amazing. At dusk the colors are astonishing -- the distant mountains turn red/orange/pink, and the dunes turn blue/purple and the sky is more colors of blue that you knew existed.
I've been there several times. Never when it was cool, tho'. It does get much cooler at night, but I've only been there at the height of summer. The sledding on the dunes is fun.
The Tularosa Basin, where White Sands is located, played an important role in the American space and nuclear programs. Robert Goddard did his rocket work over the mountains to the east, in Roswell, NM. A bunch of the space program and Air Force rocket tests were done at the White Sand Missile Range. Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, NM housed the Holloman Air Development Center and the Aero-Medical Field Laboratory. They had the rocket sled used in developing equipment for the space and defense programs and trained Ham and the other chimps used in the space program tests. It also was an alternative landing site for the space shuttle. I think, it landed there once. There is a space museum in Alamogordo, which is worth a visit.
The Trinity Site, where the first nuclear bomb was detonated, is on the northern end of the missile range. Twice a year, spring and fall, you can tour the site. I visited after interning at a DOE/DOD lab where a bunch of the Manhattan Project work had be done, during WWII. It is a pretty eerie experience.
If you go to White Sands, take tons of water and sun screen. The sand is reflective and you will sunburn in all kinds of weird spots. Call before you go. White Sands National Park is inside the missile range. The park can be shut during test firings.
The Portland Japanese Garden is great. It was orginally designed by a professor from Tokyo, has won awards and acclaim from Japanese publications, and was called "the most beautiful and authentic Japanese garden in the world outside Japan." by one of Japans ambassadors.
I've been there several times and it is absolutely beautiful
I absolutely adore Japanese gardens & am in the process of turning part of my yard into one (Tennessee).
We've got a lot of rusty colors in our natural plants & orange dirt that is blending well with many of the Japanese maples, pines & cypress nestled in among the native trees & flowers. ^^
We've got a lot of natural stone & sloping landscape that lends itself to a Japanese style as well, minus the coastal rains.
I'd like to see you put together a video of your country's beautiful spots to share with us.
I agree.
Older American here. I live southern New Mexico about 2 hours south of White Sands. Been there several times. It's unique. I tell people it's like going to a really big beach without an ocean. You can see the large expanse of white sand off in the distance over 50 miles away once you drive up into the nearby mountain's. The whole area is mountainous. White Sands is 4235 feet / 1.3 kilometers above sea level. Been there multiple times. Don't go in the middle of the summer. Temperatures can exceed 128 deg. F / 53 deg C on a hot day. In the winter temperatures can drop to just above 32 deg. F / 0 deg. C. It can be windy so dress appropriately. There is a really nice Air & Space museum just up the road in Alamogordo, NM, just 15 miles from White Sands. #1 [the Badlands] is also amazing.
I’m retired now but I was an over-the-road truck driver for decades. The job provided me the opportunity to plan my own itinerary to a certain extent. I’m so fortunate to have seen many amazing places across the USA.
Although I have heard of a few of these, as an American, I can honestly say I was learning right along with you. Now I have a list of places to visit on future adventures. Thanks for opening my eyes to some of the beauty of my own country.🤠 He should have included Palo Duro Canyon in Texas and Vasquez Rocks in southern California. Check them out online.
I love these videos because I learn so much about my own country. Its hard when in 65 years of life, I'm still learning about stunning places in my own state...Texas! I love your appreciation of America.
The Hoh rainforest looks exactly like the pictures, only prettier. I live near enough to visit and the energy is incredible.
The Hoh and Lake Crescent are some of my favorite places on Earth.
I live at the base of a mountain range. I went camping here a few years ago and was BLOWN AWAY. There is just not another place on earth like it. It's so enchanting! I loved it!
I live near too but didn't know it existed until recently and was blown away!
I love watching these reactions with you because I have learned so much about my own country! There is so much to see and do in the USA!
I live near the Hoh rainforest. It's unlike any other forest I've been in, but definitely wear leg gaiters or rainboots. The Palouse is my mom's favorite place on earth; her happy place.
The Japanese Garden is right across the street from the Portland Rose Test Garden, which overlooks the city and is free to stroll. Its absolutely PHENOMENAL, like every color rose you could want to see 🫶🥲
the white sand dunes in new mexico are amazing. when the sun sets the dunes go from white to orange then pink and then green for a split second
Thank you for the video. The country is so huge .... even as an American .... I'm learning along with you.
I've been to all but two, the crater in Hawaii, and the castle in California. I'm not sure it's the most beautiful, but overall I think the rain forest was the most fun. It's a great place to camp, and there are some amazing natural hot springs. The grassland was the one that surprised me the most. I didn't expect it to be nearly as beautiful as it is.
As a New Mexican I've been to both White Sands and the Bisti Badlands. Millions of years ago the Bisti was a swamp on the edge of a shallow sea. It's truly an awesome place to hike. White Sands is one of our newest National Parks. It's an ever changing landscape of white gypsum dunes. Sledding on the dunes is a favorite thing to do there.
Ive been to 6 of those and live about 100 Kilometer from no 8 the Hoh Rain Forest and normal go bicycle camping there every year. For my money the Pacific Northwest and 4 Corners areas are the most consistently beautiful areas in North America. Everywhere has beautiful things to go and see, but these regions ARE the beautiful things to see, its everywhere, surrounding you, at all times.
I've been to the White Sands and have a souvenir tiny corked bottle of white sand with a penny in it! Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah wilderness was my favorite!
A personal favorite: Mount St. Helens (Loowit)
The amount of mountain *missing* (due to eruption) is terrifying
The fact that it blew ~40 years ago (as opposed to 10000) just really changes the experience of the "missing mountaintop." There are photos of it. There is news footage. Older folks talk about how annoying the ash was. Sometimes, geological time happens "now"
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I would love to see your city if you are ever out and about with a video camera. ❤
The Mendenhall ice caves are really cool. Theres a place in the mat-su valley that you can go walk ontop of the glacier. I love living in alaska
Whites sands is absolutely beautiful.. there are little white lizards running everywhere very cute
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For the best shot at not being in the rain in the Hoh rain forest visit in July, August or September
White sands is amazing. We are taking our grandson there in May.
Remember it's toxic there
I took my grandson there when he was about 10. He said it was better than Six Flags lol. The sand doesn't get very hot. It's a beautiful place. ❤
Goblin Valley in Utah is another unreal looking place, was even used as the backdrop for an alien planet in Galaxy Quest.
I’ve been to Molokini, and it truly is amazing. I was just a kid at the time but the amount of fish is mind blowing. I found a little baby shark and ended up following it for about 20 minutes as it swam in between the reefs.
I've played in white sands in New Mexico about 1/2 a dozen times. I've sandboarding and sand car dune jumping.
Here is the thing. Being gypsum the sun bounces off of the sand and will give you a sun burn in strange places. Like the under side of your nose or your arms. Like the sun is coming from your feet.
Yep, I visited #10. White Sands National Park way back in 1985 as an 11 year old kid. It was later featured in the Young Guns II (1989) film as the place where a supposed still alive Billy the Kid met someone in the 1930s if i recall. So when i saw it in the film, I was like, "Yep...been there." White Sands was also an alternative landing strip for the Space Shuttle. It did make a couple of landings there over the years. It was used whenever there was bad weather over Florida, and they couldn't delay the landing any longer.
Burney Falls in Northern California is a hidden gem that's not well known. It's in an arid high altitude almost desert area. These beautiful waterfalls erupt out of nowhere with a huge volume of water from (seemingly) no source in the arid high desert. In reality, it comes from ground water that emerges at the surface in that location. It's a little weird walking upstream of the falls wondering where that massive amount of water is coming from.
Years ago, I saw Yahoo's photo of the day. It was beautiful, so I wondered where it was taken. I was thinking middle east. To my surprise it was in my state. It was Analope Canyon, Az. I went there and it was absolutely beautiful. The Navajo Nation is very protective of it, as they should be.
I have been to White Sands, NM (in maybe 1988? I was about 23ish) and it was one of the most amazing places!!! I wanted to stay longer, but i was with other people who were a-h0les and thought it was boring or something. I wanted to get to the very top of one and slude all the way down or even run all the way down. Id go back in a heartbeat if i could!!
White Sands N.P. is New Mexico, Great Sand Dunes National Park is in Colorado, and only 230 sq. miles (total area), Sleeping Bear Dunes Nat'l. Lakeshore is on Michigan's Leelanau peninsula and a mere 111 sq. miles - if anyone is into lots of sand.
I've been to the Hoh Rain Forest. It's beautiful. Some huge trees. Very green.
Edit: There's also a Japanese garden in Fort Worth. Really cool.
We have a few Japanese gardens around Norfolk virginia where I live as well. There's kitakyushu park at Norfolk Botanical Gardens, Miyazaki Japanese Garden at Redwing Park in Virginia Beach, and although it's Taiwanese rather than Japanese, there's the Pagoda and Oriental Gardens in Downtown Norfolk which has Sly Koi Pond, the largest Koi pond on the east coast.
I live in the Palouse area. They showed my neighbors farmland.
Watching from Washington, just got back from a few week tours around the state. The rainforest is 1 of 7 temperate ones (Same class as the Amazon) Also the Gorge around Quincy and George is beautiful.
I've been to White Sands National Park in New Mexico...it is amazing...so beautiful. And the "sand boarding" so much fun!
A few cool spots near me are Lake Drummond, and the Blue Ridge. Lake Drummond is basically a clearing in the middle of a massive swamp with giant trees sticking out of the water and if there's no wind, its like a giant mirror. The blue ridge has some breathtaking and precarious lookouts.
I have been to White Sands National Monument a few times. Nearest civilization is Alamogordo, then on the other side is the Organ Mountains and the town of Las Cruces. Sand is usually a silica compound, this is gypsum, which is the result of years, possibly millions, of evaporation in the Tularosa valley that leaves this soluble mineral behind. It's a very isolated area of this basin where the gypsum has broken down into fine crystals that look like white sand. It's a ln alkaline material so not every plant can grow in it. Yucca seems to grow well and that plus a few grasses are among the few things you will see in the dunes. Birds, reptiles, a few mammals are among the limited wildlife species that live there. The US national parks service maintains the public access area of the dunes and the visitors center. Much of the area is controlled by federal government for department of defense and NASA.
Only certain parts of white sands is accessible because not too far from there is where they were testing nuclear weapons
Not nuclear weapons, but standard big ordinance practice, with lots of ‘live’ rounds.
Hello from beautiful Michigan! 👋 your reaction did introduce some places I did not know about. Now I want to check them out! Thank you!
On the same land as the Japanese Tea Garden in Portland also has the experimental Rose test garden. I used to live by the Portland Airport. Nearby is a Catholic Grotto that is beautiful lush green landscape
Close to the Palouse are the scab lands where the floods stripped the soil and deposited it on the Palouse and all the way to the Willamette Valley I Oregon.
I like what you saod about Oregon. My granddad always said Oregon has a piece of every other state.
I was surprised the video didn't include Craters of the Moon state park, ID, or Badlands state park, SD.
He forgot the Painted Hills in Oregon and the Napali Coast in Hawaii. Joshua Tree National Park in California is insanely beautiful too. It is like you stepped on another planet.
Yes you’re correct, “Boomerang Island”, that’s a perfect name!
I’ve been to antelope canyon, looks exactly like it shows in the video. Unfortunately it started raining so our hike ended early but definitely a surreal place
Look at the Hearst castle in California as well. That place will blow your mind.
The White Sands is one of my favorite places!
Your reactions are incredible and I enjoy them a lot. I'm aware that you love reacting to America's National Parks and America road trip videos. I recommend TOP 10 USA ROADTRIPS TO DO IN 2024 because it features both. The video is exciting and well done. You won't regret it. Great job!
I just watched it thanks for letting us know. That video was Superior the photography was just incredible! ❤🇺🇸🙏🏻👍🏻
I’m from Maui and I agree Molokini crater is not a good choice for this list. Haleakala Crater Park or the Road to Hana on Maui are both way better choices and incredibly beautiful.
I happen to live in a gorgeous area as well. Look up pictures of and around Lake Coeur d'Alene, Hayden Lake, Lake Pend Oreille, Priest Lake, Route of the Hiawatha bike trail and Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes. Northern Idaho is awesome. It doesn't get much better.
I learned about some new places! I haven’t been to any of these places, but the last one felt like was a place Star Wars was filmed.
I've been to # 10, and # 1. They are both amazing. There are other places in New Mexico, that are also amazing, like Carlsbad caverns and Chaco canyon, and Shiprock along with Camel rock.
A great many folks from Japan settled along the west coast. Japanese gardens are their heritage and they share it even today.
Amazing parks, American nature is unreal. You should react to state parks, they are a tier down from national parks but still amazing
Not really. Watkins Glen, Letchworth, and Stony Brook are amazing and those are just 3 state parks that are equal or better than national parks. Adirondack State Park is the largest park in the nation and these are just NY there are so many other state parks in other states that are on the same level.
@@cp368productions2 I’m just referring to governing levels
He's done dozens of reactions to state and national parks.
Man, I haven't been to the Japanese Gardens in a few years, I'll have to go this week :)
I’ve been to Antelope Canyon. It is amazing. It seems unreal even when you’re actually there.
I have been to about half of these places. And yes, they are stunning.
Hocking Hills in Ohio has a section that's similar to Oneonta Gorge. I wish I could post photos for you to compare. It has waterfalls and a stream that carved out a magnificent, rocky, mossy chasm you can hike through. Each state has something surreal in the natural areas.
The PNW had four on the list......and they didn't even show any mountains!!! 😂
I’ve been to Antelope Canyon 3 times. This clip doesn’t begin to show the beauty there. You are required to hire a Navajo guide to take you through the Canyon, which is important because during the summer monsoon rains, flash flooding can be a danger. In 1997, 11 tourists were drowned in a flash flood in Lower A telomeres Canyon.
My family lived in Hobbs, New Mexico in the early 60's when I was 10-13 years old. White Sands was a bit far for a day trip but we went there several times over the years. The park is on a HUGE missile base where the US tests missiles and rockets and the park is closed sometimes for missile tests. Also on the base is the Trinity site where they tested the first atomic bomb. A couple times a year you can visit the Trinity site with a convoy of other visitors and a military escort. I went with my dad once and in the 60's you could still pick up little pieces of a green radioactive glasslike material made from sand fused by the explosion.
I think the real take-home here is that no matter where you are, there's something amazing to be seen, and that you tend to undervalue the local stuff because it's familiar. It isn't surprising that you were underwhelmed by the Iberian-inspired castle. I've travelled a bit and lived in Western Michigan and the Finger Lakes area of Upstate New York - both notably beautiful regions. I feel like a lot of countries the world over could be a match for a similarly sized slice of the US, and that most areas in the US have stunning places, but they might not be well known.
I live in New Mexico and I have been there. Every August when there is a full moon there is a big evening gathering at White Sands with a huge drum circle and a bon fire and music and dancing. it is quite wonderful, although they make everyone leave the dunes area after midnight because you cannot camp there. There are cabins and campgrounds outside of the park though so it is a lot of fun. And White Sands happens to be a place where there was some atomic testing done during WW2 while the first atomic bomb was being built at Los Alamos, about250 miles north of White Sands. New Mexico has a lot of Military history, science history and space history tied up in its background, probably because the state is quite large but doesn't have a huge population and has some remote areas.
Some other cool places are Bryce Canyon, Moab Utah, and Monument Valley.
Utah there is Fishlake and goblin valley and the Bonneville saltflats
If you want LOTR check out Vancouver Island.
Ohio has a castle also. Check out Loveland castle, it really cool.
Portland, OR Japanese Gardens. Done really well because the Japanese Sister Helped build it! Then go up to the Mansion on top of the hill, and see the most incredible view that goes all the way to Mount Hood!
I believe someone else mentioned this. But the videos that you have been watching hopefully gives you an idea as to why so many Americans don't even have passports. There are SO MANY beautiful places in the USA, a person could spend their entire life right here trying to visit all the wonderful places in our own country.
Yeah, definitely, or probably there are a lot of U.S. viewers who are learning and seeing things for the first time in your videos. The U.S. is a big place. I am from the New Orleans area in Louisiana.
While I don't mean to diminish any of America's beauty, my husband has been to both Alaska and Norway, and said the fjords were gorgeous in both. I've only seen Norway's, so if you've been there...
I really thought the part at 13:00 was Petra. Had not idea we had a similar structure in the US!
I didn’t know about half of those and I live in the western US, there are too many cool places to keep track of
I am a Texan and hardly have the need to even travel outside of my state, there is so much to see and do in this state alone.
i have been discorvering so much of my country (USA) through your channel! Ive lived on the east coast of America for my whole life and have never travelled further west than Washington DC
I'm a Latino in Northern Arizona and I haven't been outside here or New Mexico. Much I see here is new to me.
Don't apologize i appreciate how you love my country
It is so big I am still learning, so many of places I would love to visit just in the USA.
Check out Goblin Valley in utah for look at one of the most alien place on earth
There’s Portland Oregon and Maine!
The Glacier looks like what I imagine standing on the back side of Niagara Falls would look like We actually have our own version of the Australian Outback
I live in the Seattle area, and there is a very large and diverse Asian population in the PNW (Pacific Northwest). One of the places that I think is amazing that doesn't get a lot of attention is the Pacific Bonsai Museum, just a short drive south of Seattle (in Federal Way, WA). There are at least 50 bonsai trees on permanent display with additional rotating exhibits, most of it outside, all of it incredible. These miniature trees are works of art that take years if not decades to prune and create.
In Seattle are the Amazon glass spheres, which are three huge glass spheres connected together to create an indoor greenhouse with literal walls of plants, with a restaurant and bar among the 40,000 plants.
I was born and raised in Arizona and Florida, so I was used to a lot of open water and open desert before I moved up here. It took me quite a while to not feel claustrophobic from all the trees everywhere. On daily commutes it can feel like you're driving right through a forest way out in the country and not just a few miles from a huge city.
If you do decide to visit the PNW, my only piece of advice is to wear waterproof shoes, because regular shoes can take forever to dry out. lol
I’ve heard of several of these, but some were new to me too❤️🤗🐝
In a world full of hate, then there is the simple beauty we all take for granted. ❤
I've been to both parts of Antelope Canyon, and it does feel like you're on another planet. Actually, large parts of northern Arizona and southern Utah look like you're on another planet. There's a waterfall (Grand Falls on the Little Colorado River) not far from Flagstaff that looks like chocolate milk, like something from Willy Wonka. It's also on the Rez.
I didn't know about those Oregon/Idaho grasslands out of some fairy tale until I saw this video
The Pacific North West has a very similar climate to Japan. Volcanic, snow capped mountains, rain forests,,
While I agree that all of these are amazing, I couldn’t help but notice the eastern half of the US is absent from the list. Maybe he will do a part 2?
The west is just very beautiful than the East
America is just like mom. Can I go to Japan, mom? We have Japan at home Japan at
Home. 😂
I'm from New Mexico and I guarantee you that white sands is pheromonal especially in astrophotography, same goes for antelope canyon in AZ and Ashi Slay NM which is actually label as Ashiin... note they are far more wonders hidden within New Mexico.
I never knew about most of these places. It is amazing what Mother Nature has given us and through time, how nature transformed them. I really like the ice caves since that is something one cannot find elsewhere. The Japanese Gardens were so colorful and a very peaceful experience. If one goes to places in New Mexico and Arizona, the paths through the rock formations, double check the weather for flash floods. There have been people being drown and swept away because of the high walled, narrow paths and there is no time to get to high ground.
The U.S. has so many and different natural developments and climates in one Country. Does the whole European continent have as many different natural places to visit? I always wanted to visit Switzerland, Germany, Austria because I like the mountains. I assume in Europe; it might be easier to visit different locations through your train system. In the U.S., attractions are so far apart, we have trains, cars, buses, but there will be transfers from one direction to the other to get to one spot. Even taking the planes to one state, you might need a rental car to drive to the attractions, it still might be hundreds of miles from the airport.
Our food choices come from all over the world. Immigrants bring their culture and share the best of their foods with us. They are then incorporated into our daily lives so we have almost unlimited options when eating out. And yes, we also have many healthy meals - we do not eat sugary, high carb food for every meal!
I am 40 yrs old. I have literally traveled 10s of thousands of miles. I have been to 10 states seen several thousands of lage cities, national parks, national treasures, etc, but that is less then 2% of America. If you think about it I have traveled less then 20% of New Mexico alone, and this state is if I remember right around the size of Ireland. We 1 1/2 to 1 1/3. To drive from Farmington NM, to Phoenix AZ. is roughly 7 1/2 hrs. From here to Chicago is an average of 20+ hours pending on if you abide by the speed limit, and mind you thats without site seeing. The only way you are going to see all of America in 1 life time is if you take a plane or helicopter with only taking fuel stops, and even then you'll only see 5% of the nation if you're lucky
When my father was stationed at White Sands Missile Range while in the Army we visited the White Sands National Monument and I can attest to it's beauty and the pure white sand.
We don’t have castles here in the US, that’s why we go to Europe! But the US is so massive that we have virtually every type of geography there is. I’ve spent most of my life in the western parts of America. For context, from Florence, Oregon (west coast) to Portland, Maine (east coast) is over 3,300 miles. For me, from Idaho, it’s a 10 hour drive to the west coast. I know people do it, but to drive from my house to the east coast would take about a week. I believe my state is close to the size of Italy. In reality, most of our states are the size of European countries. I’ve not seen every state in the US and I’m old. But there are beautiful places here.
I'm discovering a lot of these with you
I'm 63yrs. old & STILL haven't seen enough of my own country, (no passport)!