Photo of the Week – The Highest Point of the Great Plains
This is it. The highest point of the entire Great Plains – Fishers Peak in southern Colorado – 9,633 ft. It’s not geologically part of the Rockies, but instead is volcanic in origin, sits east of the Rockies and therefore is part of the Great Plains.
The Great Plains – A Big Place, but not a “Megaregion”
America has been in the process of becoming more and more urbanized and suburbanized for a very long time. Apparently, geographers think that trend will continue. The Regional Plan Association has identified eleven “Megaregions” in the United States that together have about 75% of the population of the country. There’s lots to think about with […]
GPT – Photo of the Week
Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska.
GPT Photo of the Week
Nebraska – The Pine Ridge rises in the distance.
GPT – Photo of the Week
The Fabulous Picketwire Canyon in Comanche National Grassland, Colorado
GPT Photo of the Week
Sometimes rocks just, well, rock! From small stones to huge boulders, they are the raw materials of the planet, and can be strikingly beautiful. Rocks are, of course, not unique to the Great Plains, but sometimes in an open landscape, they can stand out and assert their presence, reminding us that while we and our […]
Great Grizzlies!
As a follow up to the earlier post about The Revenant, where the historical (not Hollywood) Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear on the Great Plains, it occurred to me that some people might not know that the Great Plains was historically part of the habitat for the grizzly. Today most people think […]
GPT Photo of the Week
The View from White Butte, the highest point in North Dakota (3,506 ft)
GPT Photo of the Week
Yes, there are a lot of road miles on the Great Plains Trail, but that is by necessity, not by design. In a perfect world (ha!), the entire GPT would be trail, and the goal is always to move in that direction – increase the trail mileage and decrease the road mileage. That said, many […]
The Revenant
I’m a little late in seeing the movie, The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It came out in 2015 and I only just recently saw it on DVD. It was good. It was action packed and entertaining, and I suppose that’s all we can ever expect from movies anymore. Maybe a true movie buff could set […]
GPT Photo of the Week
This is from a trip to the high point of Oklahoma (one of 5 state high points that the GPT connects with) way back in early 2010. That’s before I was even actively working on the Great Plains Trail project, and therefore it seems like a very long time ago, but I remember the hike […]
GPT Photo of the Week
Near Toadstool Geologic Park in western Nebraska is a lonely landscape of dry, cracked earth where even grasses have a hard time in the shifting clays.
