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Point Lobos, California
Favorite getaway in California is Point Lobos, Carmel. The hike is breathtaking, the trail comes with most jaw-dropping views and sightings. —margaritas438e85f2a
North Cascades, Washington
The Maple Pass Loop hike in the North Cascades of Washington. Not only is the hike easy to do in a day, but every new switchback offers a new intensely beautiful viewpoint and traverses the forest to alpine ecosystems. Talk about a bang for your buck! It culminates at the highest point, when an entire panorama of the many peaks of the North Cascades. On the way down you feel like a mountain goat creeping along an alpine ridge and down the side of a mountain back below to the river valleys. Someday it'll be as popular as other similar hikes, but for now you can still find a quiet rock to perch on and hear the pikas peeping at you.
—bluebirdrock
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Taughannock Falls, New York
I distinctly remember one morning when I was walking to Cornell to do some research. I had gotten lost, and I was looking around to see if I could recognize where I had ended up. I turned and there was the most beautiful waterfall directly to my right. Sights like these make you realize that the things we worry about on a daily basis really do not matter at all. —lauryns4ec8b720b