Canyon

was going to be one exhilarating trip. The itinerary for the next day was to drive through Glenwood Canyon to Aspen, Colorado. The drive through Glenwood Canyon was epic. The colors of the canyon wall were picture perfect. Red, oranges, yellows all perfectly placed with in the rock to stimulate the mind. The stream flowing through the canyon was a perfect blue, a clear crisp blue. This canyon was majestic but the family was ready to explore even more. With the excitement of seeing new…

Day 1: We woke up at 5:00 am in the morning so we could check in to the Paradise Pier at Disneyland and took the I-5 freeway. There was a bit of traffic so we didn't arrive until 7:30 am. We went straight into the park and had fun. We had to get up early the next morning so we had Jack-in-the-Box and went straight to bed. Day 2: We set off for universal studios the next day after we checked out of the paradise pier at 6:00 am. Although it was only 35.6 miles we wanted to get there early so we…

Seven Cities of Gold Expedition A land of riches and gold sounds like a land any person would want to live in. In the southwestern part of the United States and northern Mexico, there were lands filled to the brim with gold and other riches. In 1539, one of the first expeditions to find these cities was led by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who took on the long, difficult journey which was also known as Seven Cities of Gold Expedition. While exploring the Southwest United States and Northern…

my eyes flew to the black and white detailed photographs by John Rodman. John’s photographs feature various landmarks from Arizona. For example, one of the first photos I was drawn to was the North Rim - Grand Canyon, AZ with a well balanced detailed black and white photo of the Grand Canyon. The atmosphere right away gave a sense of Arizona’s culture and seemed calming. Next as I walked further into the NIACC Auditorium Art Gallery and I saw Rita Kirsch Dungey’s Moving Beyond Boundaries that…

production of art and art history of Lake Tahoe, Donner Pass and surrounding Sierras. This exhibition is for the first time focusing on our local region instead of in conjunction with other national areas like Yosemite’s, Yellow Stone or the Grand Canyon. The goal of the exhibition is to allow future generations to celebrate and examine these areas, and their contribution to the broader culture. A surprising number of over 400 artists contributed to the Visual experience of Tahoe, in a span of…

lives, but few have heard about Providence Canyon. That is because it never became a national park, instead, it became a state park. I believe this was a terrible decision and their are numerous reasons why I believe this that I will explain in this essay. Firstly, Providence Canyon is a place that is filled with…

Chrystal Nguyen November 19, 2014 The Grand Canyon: A Natural Phenomenon Although humans are considered the smartest animal in the world, we are definitely not the most powerful forces in the world. Human history can be told verbally or documented with written language, but Earth’s history must be deciphered through the written clues in our nature. Whether we are analyzing rock sentiment, volcanic activity, or old climate patterns, there are many ways to understand the history of Earth. However…

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is one the paintings of Albert Bierstadt. It display at Washington National Museum of American Art and Painted in 1868, with scenic canvas oil. Albert Bierstadt paintings are all based on the places he visited himself. Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway is a painting from John Frederick Kensett's. It’s painted in 1869 and he used canvas oil in his painting as well. This painting shows the America's hopes and ambitions. Both Albert Bierstadt…

Known as the “Jewel of the Sierra” Lake Tahoe is an ultra-oligotrophic lake that falls on the California-Nevada boundary. It is a huge tourist attraction: about 3 million people visit the Lake Tahoe area annually, be it to ski in the winter or recreate in the lake in the summer (http://tahoefacts.com/html/body_tahoe_faqs.html). I myself visited last summer, and fell in love with the truly emerald waters of Emerald Bay. For the past 60 years, Lake Tahoe has been assaulted by a variety of lake…

decide to make Providence Canyon a national park schools could use it as a school field trip to go and explore the different sand colors there is in Providence Canyon national park. If schools are willing the price to go for a school field trip imagine all the money you could get from just one single school trip. If that is a lot of money already imagine if all the schools would go to see the providence Canyon for a field trip you would make a profit. Making the Providence Canyon a national…