Tag: “El Monte Lodge”

12 places found.

  1. Cabinas El Mirador Lodge

    Cabinas El Mirador Lodge is an excellent place to stay in Drake Bay, on Costa Rica's beautiful Osa Peninsula. The view is exceptional...

  2. National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido"

    The National Park of "Ordesa y Monte Perdido" is situated in the Spanish side of the Pyrenees at Huesca, Aragón.
    Declared a National Park in 1918 by a Royal Decree, this IUCN Category II National Park becomes every year meeting point for mountaineers and
    families around Europe and even overseas.
    Today it has 156 km² and it's included in the Biosphere Reserve of "Ordesa-Viñamala" declared by UNESCO in 1997.

    Its orography is dominated by the calcareous mass (the biggest of Europe) of the massiff of the Three "Sorores", "Treserols", whose greater elevation is the "Monte Perdido" (3355m), from which in a more or less radial form descend a series of impressive mountainous crests and glacial valleys beeing the most characteristic the "Ordesa Canyon (or Valley)".

    In the French territory it's called "Pyrenees" National Park and it shares with Spain wonderful places like the "Circus of Gavarnie" (a glacial cirque with the highest waterfall in Europe with more than 400 meters of vertical fall) or the impressive "Brecha de Rolando -Brèche de Roland in french-" a natural gap, 40m across and 100m high at an altitude of 2804m.

  3. El Morro

    El Morro, or by its full Spanish name El Castillo San Felipe del Morro, was a sixteenth-century Spanish citadel and is now a World Heratige Site as well as a part of the San Juan National Historic Site. Since the departure of the U.S.

  4. Sierra Vista Winery

    This is a small boutique winery in the El Dorado County, California area, which is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California. You can taste many different varieties of wine, enjoy a picnic on the grassy grounds while taking in the majestic view of the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountains.

  5. El Capitan

    This is one your first encounters in the Yosemite Valley.

  6. Sly Park Recreation Area

    Camping, boating, picnics, hiking and mountain biking are among the attractions at this small lake in the western Sierra Nevadas. The lake is actually a reservoir but it is also a major recreation area in El Dorado county.

  7. Sutter's Mill

    This saw mill is a replica of the saw mill owned by John Sutter in 1848. This is the place where gold was discovered in California which started the gold rush eventually leading to California's statehood.

  8. Narrow Gate Vineyards

    This is a small, boutique winery located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California. The winery is owned and operated by the Hildebrand family.

  9. Echo Lakes, California

    Echo Lakes, California, is located off Highway 50 between Placerville and South Lake Tahoe. There are two small alpine lakes in the High Sierra Nevada Mountains at about the 7,000 feet above sea level.

  10. Placerville, California

    Placerville, California part of the old gold mining district in Placer County. Placerville was also once known as "Hang Town" and has an effigy to that effect in the middle of the downtown area near all the antique shops.