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From Alaska to Florida, these spots offer fresh air and ample space for social distancing
Here are a couple. The first is Smoky Mountain National Park. I like the photo because it shows us Chimney Tops. I climbed to the top of Chimney Tops in the Smokies several times back when I was in law school at Vanderbilt and a few times after that when I visited friends in Tennessee. There’s a hole at the top of the climb. I did not like that hole.
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee and North Carolina
In 1917, when Harvey Broome was 15 years old, he got a taste of the Smoky Mountains that never left him. His father took him camping at Silers Bald, where the current Appalachian Trail crosses the Tennessee and North Carolina border, and it launched a love for the mountains he spent 50 years exploring. He loved spending time in the mountains so much, in fact, that after he became a lawyer, he quit to take a lower ranking position as a law clerk—solely because it afforded him more time to spend outdoors. When he married, he and his wife, Anna, owned a cabin in the Smokies—their base for exploration—and a house up on a ridge in Tennessee with a mountain view. Today, Great Smoky Mountains National Park stretches 522,427 acres, split almost perfectly down the middle by the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
In 1935, Broome and seven others—Aldo Leopold, Robert Marshall, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, Ernest Oberholtzer, Bernard Frank and Harold C. Anderson—founded the Wilderness Society, an organization working to care for and protect wild places throughout the country. When, in 1966, his beloved Smokies were threatened by the development of a highway that would cut through the wilderness, Broome, then serving as president of the Wilderness Society, took action. He organized a Save Our Smokies hike, attended by more than 1,300 people, that was instrumental in stopping the road construction, keeping the Smokies street-free for generations to come.
Boundary Waters, Minnesota
Sigurd Olson’s fight to preserve the Boundary Waters wilderness area, one million acres stretching along northern Minnesota’s Canadian border, began in the 1920s. He started campaigning to restrict human activity in the Boundary Waters, and his efforts were not met with cooperation. With 1,175 lakes and more than a million acres of wilderness, the area was used for motorized boating, fishing and snowmobiling—and fans of those activities felt threatened by Olson’s crusade. He pushed for a float plane ban in the 1940s, angering the local community of outdoorsmen. Olson fought against roads and dams, and did everything he could to keep the Boundary Waters pristine. But, at times, he incited outright hate in his critics. In 1977, for instance, motorboating and logging advocates who disagreed with his vision hung an effigy of him from a logging truck outside an Ely congressional hearing, advocating for more restrictions on motorboats, mining and logging in the Boundary Waters. When Olson was called to the stand, he was booed and shouted at, and even the judge couldn’t get the crowd back under control. But Olson had an articulate response about why the Boundary Waters needed protection: “Wilderness has no price. Tranquility, a sense of timelessness, a love of the land—how are you going to explain love of the land, how are you going to explain the value of a sunset or a lookout point?”
Ultimately, Olson won. A Boundary Waters bill passed in 1978, three years before Olson’s death, officially naming the area the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Today, about 250,000 people visit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness annually, to hike, canoe, fish, rock climb and camp. Boundary Waters is currently open for visitors.
Check out this amazing shot we found on Drone Of The Day, which captures Cape Enniberg, the northernmost point of the Faroe Islands. At 2,474 feet (754 m) high, Cape Enniberg is one of the highest promontories in the world. Throughout the summer, boat tours stop at Cape Enniberg to give tourists an up-close view of the massive cliff and the famous bird colony found there.
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