or Fort Pierre operated by the American Fur Company. A new emphasis was placed on buffalo robes as a result of the loss of demand for beaver pelt. Beaver fur prices on the east coast fell from $4.50 a pound in 1832 to $2.50 a pound by 1840. But at the same time buffalo robes doub...
The meeting culminates with multi Leadville 100 champion and IMBA Executive Director David Wiens announcing Roanoke as an IMBA Silver Ride Center, the only one on the East Coast. Keynote speaker, Andrew Davis toasts to Roanoke, The East Coast Mountain Biking Capital of the World. 2 min read ...
Going northwest from the neve reaches the northeast face onto the east ridge below The Tent. Go west, making your way to the head of Warren Glacier and the final steep slopes. Dalton Dome at 2620 metres (8600 ft.) features three different routes to the summit. They are the north face,...
Other southern coastal towns include Savanna-la-Mar (in the southwest), Portmore (just west of Kingston), and Morant Bay (east). Important centres in the interior are Spanish Town (the old capital, 13 miles [21 km] west of Kingston), May Pen, and Mandeville, high in the Manchester ...
Geography & Travel Cities & Towns Cities & Towns C-G Cape Town (more) Cape Town national legislative capital, South Africa Print Cite Share Feedback Also known as: De Kaap, Kaapstad Written by Eric Axelson Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Article History Ask the...
This "project in regional planning" was a radical critique of the industrializing modernity that sharpened the divide between expanding cities of the Eastern coast and waning towns of the Appalachian mountains. + 26 Save this article Read more »...
Roanoke in Virginia’s Blue Ridge is a winner of the Blue Ridge Outdoors Top Adventure Towns contest! The Appalachian Trail passes on one side and the Blue Ridge Parkway on the other. With an MSA size of over 325,000 people, it’s the perfect size to be large enough for a lot of gr...
With the exception of the coastal settlements, the Strandja inhabitants belong to the East Rupian ethnographic society. Their dialect resembles the one of the people in Rhodopi Mountain. In the park itself there are 19 villages and 2 towns with total of 9000 inhabitants.In Strandja the processes...
There is a website 2 dedicated to the Great Allegheny Passage Trail (GAP Trail), and the passage is known for “trail towns” along the way, which means you are never more than nine miles from a place to eat, rest, and even stay overnight. There are also many places with bathrooms,...
Taking in the beautiful scenery while traveling through the towns of Boulder, Lyons and Estes Park before entering the national park. The continental divide is one of Colorado’s landmarks. At this point the water ways to the west flow to the Pacific Ocean and to the east, they flow to ...