Show me your scenic overlook photos!

[Shawn]

Reply with your photos of scenic overlooks. Be sure to state where the photo was taken!

I'll go first:



Horseshoe Bluff, Shawnee National Forest, Pomona, Illinois - this is an area that not a lot of people really go to. You can see the bend of the Big Muddy River on it which IMO is the prettiest part of the river.

 

[krJoest]

Another Camel rock picture!

 

[neidholdt]

Iowa High Point overlook

 

[Shawn]

Owl Bluff Overlook, Lusk Creek Wilderness, Shawnee National Forest


Christmas Star Overlook, Garden of the Gods Wilderness, Shawnee National Forest

 

[neidholdt]

LakeSuperior

 

[Shawn]

Kuwohi scenic overlook. This was previously known as Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

 

[neidholdt]

Osage Bluff CA, south of Jefferson City, MO.

 

[Shawn]

Cades Cove Loop, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Townsend, Tennessee

 

[neidholdt]

Did you do the Smokies for the hikes or for your bride

 

[neidholdt]

these pics capture why they are called the smokies.

 

[Shawn]

Did you do the Smokies for the hikes or for your bride

We both had talked about wanting to go a few years ago. And when we decided to get married, we figured it would be a great honeymoon location. So, a little of both haha The mountains were a different hike though, pretty strenuous than what we are used to.

 

[neidholdt]

The outer mountain loop, Big Bend Nat. Park, Texas.

 

[neidholdt]

Round top mountain, Arkansas

 

[neidholdt]

Missouri high point overlook

 

[neidholdt]

Osage River, MO

 

[Shawn]

The Keyhole at Jackson Falls in the Shawnee National Forest

 

[neidholdt]

Overlooking the Canyon lands, Utah

 

[Shawn]

Ozark National Scenic Riverways (AKA The Current River) in Missouri.

 

[Jeff Ulrich]

Looking northwest across the Saline River Valley towards Harrisburg from a ledge on the escarpment along the west side of Cave Hill, Shawnee National Forest near Equality, Illinois, taken 10 September 2021. I call this ledge the "Hawk's Roost" because a hawk took flight from a smaller ledge just below as I first approached.



Tilted rock strata that protrude from the hillside show the large amount of displacement along the Shawneetown Fault that runs along the west and north side of Cave Hill.

 

[Jeff Ulrich]

Mississippi River looking west towards Gill Point and Cape Cinque Hommes on the Missouri bank from Riverview Overlook along FR787 on Fountain Bluff, Shawnee National Forest, near Gorham, Illinois, taken 21 August 2017.