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Today’s #conservationlands15 Top 15: Places on National Conservation Lands for Night Sky Viewing
The stars really do come out at night on BLM’s National Conservation Lands – and lots of them! Far from city lights, these landscapes offer some of the most outstanding viewing opportunities anywhere. Viewing night skies in some of these remote locations takes some planning. It’s important to contact the local BLM office (linked for each location) to obtain information on camping rules and current road conditions. Here are 15 of the best areas:
Alaska
#1 Steese National Conservation Area: Drive out the Steese Highway for some of the best northern lights viewing anywhere. Don’t expect to see this amazing light show in summer – the midnight sun makes the sky too bright!
Arizona
#2 Just beyond the glow of the City lights of Phoenix, the Sonoran Desert National Monument offers great dark skies to the south, where the milky arcs across the sky.
#3 The high elevations near Mount Trumbell and Mount Logan offer expansive vistas in the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument whose outstanding night sky viewing opportunities have resulted in its “International Night Sky Province” designation.
California
#4 Several Wilderness Study Areas in the Eastern Sierra, including Slinkard (on Monitor Pass) and the Bodie Hills (near Bridgeport), are a world apart from California’s urban coastal areas and contain some of the darkest skies in the golden state.
#5 California Coastal National Monument: Although clear skies are difficult to predict along the fogbound coast, the Big Sur, Mendocino Coast and King Range Coast are all far from city lights so you can see stars over the ocean.
Colorado
#6 Canyons of the Ancients National Monument: Its easy to contemplate how “the ancient ones” studied the stars in this vast desert landscape near the four corners. Contact the Anasazi Heritage Center for ideas on camping/viewing locations.
#7 Alpine Loop: This BLM backcountry byway runs near the Uncompagre Wilderness and both Handies Peak and Redcloud Peak Wilderness Study Areas. The thin air at 11,000 feet seems to make the stars here appear extra crisp.
Idaho
#8 Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area: Just a stone’s throw from Boise, this area is truly on the edge of civilization. Overlooks along the north rim of the Snake River Canyon offer great viewing of the dark skies to the south.
Montana
#9 Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument and Wild and Scenic River: Nothing is more relaxing than floating down a river and sleeping under the stars here in Big Sky Country at night.
Nevada
#10 Black Rock Desert High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trail National Conservation Area: Just avoid the last week of August when Burning Man lights up the playa, and you’ll be treated to some of the darkest skies in the U.S.
New Mexico
#11 Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument and Wild and Scenic River: Vast volcanic tablelands above the narrow gorge of the river and crisp high elevation rocky mountain skies offer excellent viewing opportunities.
Oregon
#12 Steens Mountain Wilderness: Southeast Oregon’s highest peak offers hiking, camping and a scenic drive to the high elevation viewing areas.
Utah
#13 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: From spectacular Grand Staircase of cliffs and terraces to the wonders of the Escalante River canyons, the monument offers nearly 1.9 million acres to starwatch and explore.
Washington
#14 Juniper Dunes Wilderness: Enjoy the open skies and rolling dunes here in the southeast part of the state.
Wyoming
#15 South Pass – California-Oregon-Pony Express and Mormon Emigrant Trails: Its easy to imagine the feeling of vastness that the emigrants found here in the mid-1800s as they rested under the stars before hitching up the oxen to continue their arduous trek.
Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.
The closest thing to a Kenner is helping me through my Kenner-less state... Pipistrelle has gone away for a while, & I miss her already =(
This is an unprocessed phone photo, so please don't judge. I was shooting with my DSLR, too, but it may take me some time to get a shot from that uploaded.
While we had good light on the boulder, the tree never did get any. Wrong time of year, I guess.
Look around. There are WAY better shots of this here on Flickr.
45379 heads the inaugral Mid Hants Railways Gin Train, the newly named Juniper Express, past Northside Lane. 250 passengers were served Gin and tapas
The Juniper Twig Geometer, Patalene olyzonaria, could easily pass as a dead leaf. At a blacklight in Leavenworth, Kansas, August 4, 2019.
Here is another night shot at Olmsted Point in Yosemite from last year. An incandescent flashlight was used to light up the Juniper tree.
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Juniper berries are not berries or a fruit but the female seed cone produced by the various species of junipers. In ancient and contemporary cultures the cones (berries) are used for medicinal purposes and to flavor foods and alcoholic beverages.
This ancient, weathered Juniper tree has had a great view of the Grand Canyon for a very long time. Junipers typically live from 350 to 700 years, with some even passing the millennium mark.
- Kaibab Plateau, North Rim, Grand Canyon, Arizona
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I like the silhouette of this juniper tree reaching for the stars of the milky way - as if poised to jump.
At Wallace State Park near Cameron, MO - about 39 deg n latitude (a latitude with attitude).
Perhaps all juniper at this spot. Juniperus californica, California juniper, overlooking the Carrizo Plain,
Eastern San Luis Obispo Co., California
Another shot from 2 days ago. This one shows the pretty brown dorsum. I have never seen a Juniper Hairstreak perched with open wings. Flower is Comfry.
Published in Butterflies and Moths of the Smokies by Charles R Smith and Elizabeth A Domingue.
"Little Marleen went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out of her bottom drawer, and in it she wrapped all the bones from under the table and carried them outside, and all the time she did nothing but weep. Then she laid them in the green grass under the juniper- tree, and she had no sooner done so, then all her sadness seemed to leave her, and she wept no more. And now the juniper-tree began to move, and the branches waved backwards and forwards, first away from one another, and then together again, as it might be someone clapping their hands for joy. After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there was a burning as of fire, and out of the fire there flew a beautiful bird, that rose high into the air, singing magnificently, and when it could no more be seen, the juniper-tree stood there as before, and the silk handkerchief and the bones were gone."
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18 Sep - Photo a day 2016.
A Juniper Shieldbug (Cyphostethus tristriatus) I think, seen in the back garden.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - A juniper tree clings to the side of the mountain at Keys View as the sunset colors start to fade.
The Juniper Creek Trail, located at Juniper Springs Recreation Area is a fine short trail. Beginning at the headspring/swimming area, the trail interacts with the small Juniper Creek before concluding at Fern Hammock Spring, a secluded spring closed to swimming in which a variety of wildlife can be seen relatively undisturbed (a picture of Fern Hammock can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/corran105/17282154546/).
Juniper Springs is located in the center of Florida's Ocala National Forest. The creek flows a distance of around ten miles to Lake George, Florida's second largest lake and a part of the St. Johns River. Some seven miles form one of Florida's most wild canoe runs.
Warming up in the sunlight... or hiding in the shadow?
Looks better on black.
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The Juniper Creek Trail, located at Juniper Springs Recreation Area is a fine short trail. Beginning at the headspring/swimming area, the trail interacts with the small Juniper Creek before concluding at Fern Hammock Spring, a secluded spring closed to swimming in which a variety of wildlife can be seen relatively undisturbed (a picture of Fern Hammock can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/corran105/17282154546/).
Juniper Springs is located in the center of Florida's Ocala National Forest. The creek flows a distance of around ten miles to Lake George, Florida's second largest lake and a part of the St. Johns River. Some seven miles form one of Florida's most wild canoe runs.
My girlfriend and I followed one of the small creeks that come off of Red Lake peak about half way up the mountain. At times we had to get pretty far away from the creek because it was too steep. During one of these detours we found ourselves in this beautiful Juniper grove. They are one of my favorite trees - they look great lush and healthy like these, or when they are stunted, gnarly and half dead.