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- Working list: World’s deepest open pit mines past and present
- Biggest baddest bottlenecks for truck traffic in the USA
- Scaling one the last remaining fire lookout towers in Illinois
- A living art museum amid ghost town ruins
- Frozen fun: The ascent of ice climbing parks
- Take a [Late Night Drive Home] to alternative rock bliss
- India’s longest road/highway land tunnels
- Morenci: A look inside America’s largest copper mine
- “Storyliving towns” – A new dystopian blueprint?
- The world’s wildest roundabout is below the ocean!
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Category Archives: Maps
Biggest baddest bottlenecks for truck traffic in the USA
The map above and the list below identify the 100 worst trucking bottlenecks in the United States in 2023. Where the truck icons blend/blur together on the map, there are more bottlenecks in close proximity to one another. More detailed … Continue reading
Posted in business, cities, commerce, distribution, ecommerce, geography, highways, industry, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, planning, spatial design, Statistics, traffic, transportation, Travel, trucking, urban planning
Tagged bottlenecks, cities, congestion, distribution, geography, land use, logistics, planning, semis, traffic, transportation, travel, trucking
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Frozen fun: The ascent of ice climbing parks
As spring moves into full bloom, one might wonder why we are posting a piece on ice climbing parks? Well, human-made ice climbing parks have successfully filled a niche for smaller communities that in the past have largely shut down … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Arctic, cities, climate, economic development, engineering, entertainment, fitness, fun, geography, health, infrastructure, land use, Maps, mountains, natural history, nature, placemaking, planning, recreation, seasons, sports, technology, third places, topography, tourism, Trade, Travel, urban planning, water, weather
Tagged bluffs, cities, cliffs, climbing, Edmonton, fun, geography, Ice, ice climbing, Iowa, Jackson Hole, Lake City, Ouray, outdoors, parks, parks and recreation, quarries, recreation, rock, sandstone, sports, travel, Winnipeg, Winona, winter
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Morenci: A look inside America’s largest copper mine
We had the opportunity over the past weekend to travel to and through parts of Southeast Arizona. While returning, we drove along U.S. 191 through the ginormous Morenci Copper Mine — the largest in the United States. This complex is … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, art, business, cities, commerce, consumerism, culture, economic development, ecosystems, engineering, environment, forests, geography, Geology, ghost towns, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, Mining, mountains, natural history, nature, pictures, planning, revitalization, spatial design, Statistics, topography, tourism, Travel, tunnels, urban planning
Tagged Arizona, cities, Clifton, copper, environment, forests, former mining towns, geography, geology, historic preservation, history, land use, mining, Morenci, Morenci mine, mountains, planning, revitalization, tourism, travel, trucks
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The world’s wildest roundabout is below the ocean!
Eysturoyartunnilin (Eysturoy Tunnel) was completed in 2020 and connects three separate islands in the Faroe Islands archipelago situated in the North Atlantic north of the United Kingdom approximately midway between Iceland and Norway. An autonomous part of Denmark, this island … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, Cars, commerce, economic development, engineering, environment, Europe, fun, geography, Geology, highways, history, infrastructure, land use, Maps, pictures, placemaking, planning, scenic byways, Statistics, technology, topography, tourism, traffic, transportation, Travel, tunnels, water
Tagged Denmark, engineering, Faroe Islands, fun, geography, land use, oceans, planning, roadways, roundabouts, tourism, transportation, travel, tunnels, undersea, underwater
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The 130+ longest underwater highway tunnels in the world
When it became apparent back in 2014 that a list of underwater highway tunnels by order of their length could not be found on the internet, I decided to put one together. This 2024 rewrite is meant to be a … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, cities, commerce, economic development, environment, geography, infrastructure, land use, Maps, planning, Statistics, transportation, Travel, tunnels, urban planning
Tagged cars, cities, design, engineering, highway tunnels, highways, planning, roads, transportation, travel, tunnels, underwater tunnels, urban planning
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A city center without traffic/Centro de la ciudad sin tráfico
Yes, it may be hard to believe, but there is such a place. Due to its steeply sloped and narrow topography, as well as the foresight of the city’s leaders, the historic city center of Guanajuato, Mexico has limited traffic … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, archaeology, architecture, art, bicycling, Biking, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, commerce, culture, downtown, engineering, environment, fitness, fun, geography, Geology, government, health, hiking, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Latin America, Maps, Mexico, Mining, mountains, natural history, peace, pictures, placemaking, planning, pollution, recreation, rivers/watersheds, skylines, spatial design, Stairway networks, topography, tourism, traffic, trails, transit, transportation, Travel, tunnels, urban design, urban planning, walking, water, water conservation
Tagged car free, cities, environment, fun, geography, Guanajuato, history, land use, Mexico, planning, tourism, traffic, transportation, travel, tunnels
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Saving North America’s “Great Horny Toads!”
When I was a kid, I thought the term “Great Horny Toads,” by Yosemite Sam was just a made up expression. Well, many years later I have learned that there really are such varmints. Turns out they are cuter than … Continue reading
Posted in Animal rights, Animals, cartoons, climate, climate change, deserts, ecosystems, environment, fun, geography, Geology, hiking, history, land use, Maps, mountains, natural history, nature, planning, pollution, recreation, Science, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, topography, tourism, Travel, urban planning, walking, Wilderness, Wildlife
Tagged environment, fun, geography, habitat loss, history, Horned Lizards, Horned Toads, Horny Toads, invasives, land use, off-road vehicles, planning, Southwest, sprawl, travel, Yosemite Sam
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Ten+ planning lessons from the centennial of our first designated wilderness: The Gila
In 2024, America will be celebrating the centennial of the establishment of the Gila Wilderness Area in southwestern New Mexico. Created at the behest of Aldo Leopold, the Gila was not only our nation’s first wilderness area, but also the … Continue reading
Posted in Animal rights, Animals, archaeology, civics, climate, climate change, culture, economics, ecosystems, environment, forests, fun, geography, Geology, government, health, hiking, historic preservation, history, humanity, land use, landscape architecture, Maps, mountains, natural history, nature, peace, pictures, place names, placemaking, planning, politics, recreation, rivers/watersheds, scenic byways, Skies, spatial design, sustainability, topography, toponymy, tourism, trails, Travel, walking, water, Wilderness, Wildlife, zoning
Tagged Aldo Leopold, camping, environment, forests, fun, geography, Gila National Forest, Gila Wilderness Area, hiking, history, land use, mountains, planning, travel
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Trekking to the Signal Peak Lookout thru snow
Yesterday (March 21, 2024), we trekked to the storied Signal Peak Lookout (in the book A Song for the River) within the Gila National Forest of southwestern New Mexico. While we encountered little trouble reaching the closest saddle to the … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, books, climate, ecosystems, environment, forests, fun, geography, hiking, historic preservation, history, land use, literature, lookouts, Maps, mountains, natural history, nature, pictures, recreation, topography, tourism, trails, Travel, walking, Wilderness, wildfire
Tagged adventure, books, environment, fire lookouts, fun, geography, Gila National Forest, hike, history, land use, lookouts, mountains, New Mexico, Signal Fire, Signal Peak, Signal Peak Lookout, trails, travel, wildfires
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Geography of the states most/least likely for vehicle wrecks with animals
The following map identifies the states where one is most and least likely to have a wreck with an animal, not just a deer as depicted in a 2011 post on this blog site. Animals could include bear, bison, cougar … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cars, education, Environment, geography, health, highways, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, natural history, nature, spatial design, States, Statistics, traffic, transportation, Travel, Wildlife
Tagged accidents, animals, cars, collisions, deer, environment, geography, history, land use, motor vehicles, traffic, transportation, travel, vehicles, wildlife, wrecks
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