What's your favorite nature place

There are two near me:
Quabbin Reservoir - In the 1930's they took over five towns in central Massachusetts and flooded them to create a reservoir for Boston. It is a beautiful place to visit.
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The Rock House Reservation - has some really cool rock formations.
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Devil's Lake State Park right here in my hometown,

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Ranked the fifth best state park in the U.S. recently by USAToday. I've been going here since I was a kid and I still haven't seen it all. And they just added another 2500 acres.
 
Banff, rainforests in costa rica, glacier and parts of the appalachian trail are some of the best places I have been to.

this is park is walking distance to our house though. really nice trails in the woods are always fun.

 
Too many to narrow down from. Most coastal beaches or wooded single track MTB trails do the trick for me.
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I prefer dry, but some races are on private ranches, so riding in mud is okay there. (never do it on a public land trail)
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Mine is the four corners regiona little extended because it has to include Moab but that's probably not four corners proper, so basically like if you stood at the Four corners monument and did a square milage of like 400 miles in either direction :embarrassed:. There is just so much diversity, different types of desert to the high alpine above treeline of Colorado to grasslands of n AZ and NMand of course the canyon country of Utah.

20 years ago I would've said the Pacific NW region and while it's beautiful imho nothing can compare to the Four corners
 
When I lived in Idaho Falls, I used to love to go to Hell's Half Acre (a rather misleading name, since it covers over 200 sq miles) -- a lava flow from about 4000 years ago. From the road (highway 20 from IF to the Idaho National Laboratory) there are a large number of places you can stop and wander out onto the lava flows. It was the quietest place I've ever been -- no human-created noises, just the wind. It was an endlessly fascinating place to roam around.

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DdBob said:
Mine is the four corners regiona little extended because it has to include Moab but that's probably not four corners proper, so basically like if you stood at the Four corners monument and did a square milage of like 400 miles in either direction :embarrassed:. There is just so much diversity, different types of desert to the high alpine above treeline of Colorado to grasslands of n AZ and NMand of course the canyon country of Utah.

20 years ago I would've said the Pacific NW region and while it's beautiful imho nothing can compare to the Four corners
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I've never really gotten out and about in that area but would really love to.
 
We've been to many national parks, but my favorite is probably either Arches or Canyonlands in Utah.
 
any place where there are trees and mountains and a lack of people and noise.

here's one: Tionesta Creek, Allegheny National Forest, Pa.
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Too many here in California to choose. Lake Tahoe, Desolation Wilderness, Mt Shasta, The Lost Coast, Henry Cowell Redwoods, Big Basin Redwoods, Pismo Beach....

That's why I live here, I can choose something different every time.
 
We have also really enjoyed SCUBA diving in the Florida Keys, and Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is worth the trip.

Of course, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks are both magnificent, and you could spend a month there and still not see half of what they have to offer.
 
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