Geographical names

“There's an area in the Cascades called the Enchantments. An awesome place, sadly overcrowded, but it's got some really kewl placenames that fit the terrain.

First of all, the upper lakes sit in an area known as the Lost World Plateau. Then there's these:

Gnome Tarn
Troll Sink
Prusik Peak
Brynhild Lake
Valhalla Cirque
Lake Viviane
Leprechaun Lake
Rune Lake
Little Annapurna
Bloody Tower
Cruel Thumb
Cynical Pinnacle
Witches Tower

These are so much better than the original unimaginative USGS names. What are some of your favorites?”

“Where I live there's:
Scratch-yer-ass Flats.
Overalls falls.
Tractor Fields.
Wish-we-lived-in-Washington Plains.
and my favorite...
Private Property.”

“Froze-to-Death Plateau
(Beartooths, MT)

Aptly named.”

“Hey, Dunadan, there's been a "Private Property" in almost every state I've been in. Weird, huh?

How about...

Hell Lake
Kitchen-Di¢k Road (@&%$ censor!)
Rugged Ba$tard Lake
Humptulips River
Damnation Creek

There once were different names, given in a different age, for Negro Creek and Squaw Tit as well.”

“Kleetn, did you check out the thread that Lizs posted about Mt Sunflower? My pride swelled like a star gone nova.”

“We still have "Basin negro" in South Alabama. Go figure.
It doesn't take much imagination to figure out what the rednecks call it.”

“We have Free Nigger Point in Louisiana. It's a bend in the Mississippi River just above Baton Rouge.”

“Hey, Dunadan, there's been a "Private Property" in almost every state I've been in. Weird, huh? kleetn
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03/04/02

And all my life they have been searching for that famous Indian with signs everywhere: Look Out For "Falling Rock."

Three favorite places where I have lived:

White Bear Lake
Bald Eagle Lake
Niceville”

“I used to drive through a little town called Grape in Raisinville Township, MI. It's near Temperance and Blissfield. Just outside of town is a crossroads named Ida-Maybee that connects two towns of same names.

Ida-Maybee done it, but the football game was on:)

Lots of corn and nice twisty back roads to drive really fast on. Vroom, vroom.”

“Intercourse, PA. Geographically it is midway between Blue Balls, Pa and Paradise, PA.

Ya gotta love the Amish.”

“Spread Eagle, WI. A great name for a border town in lumberjack territory.

In my ol' reporter days, I went up to Michigan Tech. at Houghton for winter carnival to interview the late comedian Pat Paulsen before his show. He was a really nice guy and as we talked he asked me for a little town nearby with a familiar but funny sounding name. Not hard in U.P. Finn country -- I mentioned a couple and he settled on Tapiola (sounds like tapioca). He thought Gay, which is north of Houghton, would be just too easy, and he was more interested in the sound being funny than the meaning. His delivery was perfect and caught the crowd just right when he slipped Tapiola into his act.”

“This is going to sound dumb but all the trails in Charles Deam Wilderness are named after all the people who are dead that are in the grave yard by terill ridge.

Grubb ridge loop
Axom
Terrill
Hays
Cope

Strange huh?

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“I think I already told this story, but when I was in college I took a class called Geology of the Mexican American Borderlands where we had to take a field trip to the border. Everyone was required to give a talk on some geological feature along the way. I got stuck with Ramsey Canyon. Being the dork I am, I didn't realize how this would be interpreted. I started talking about how the Blue Breasted Trogan (it's a bird) may be seen in Ramsey Canyon. It wouldn't have been so bad, saying Blue, Breast, and Ramsey all in one sentence if I hadn't also misprounanced Trogan Trogen (like the condom)... the whole class lost it, including the teacher. I was teased for the rest of the trip. My teacher pretty much gave up on the lectures after that.

:P”

“Good story.

8)”

“We all know what Biz was thinking of....”

“8|

We do?”

“Along the Tule river there is a place where all the teenagers go to swim...it's called Trogen Hole.
just below Cherry Falls ;)”

“Around here - Two Egg, Howey-In-The-Hills and YeeHaw Junction”

“I like that one YeeHaw thats cool.


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“One in California called "Negro Mountain". When the FS tried to change the name to something more politically correct, the biggest protestors were a local family that lived in the area for generations.

The mountain was named for their ancestor who was one of the first settlers in the area. His name was Josiah Negro and was as white as they come.”

“Penal Gulch, ID
Granny Squirrel Gap, NC
Sarabelle Island, GA
(okay, I named it Sarabelle Island [awright... it's not even an island - it's a hammock on the end of a HUGH oystar bar]).”

“Pechota Canyon in Southern California.

Mexican slang for a part of the male anatomy.”

“I have always felt sorry for people that had to introduce themselves and their hometown as Bulls Gap, TN

Isn't that the part just below the tail?”

“"Smashed In Head Provincial Park"- hopefully referring to the Buffalo jump near Lethbridge, Alberta

...and from Montana, "Bloody Dick Creek"- hopefully referring to, uh...”

“Hell, Michigan
Coldwater Lake (aptly named)
Rodburn and Twin Knobs both next to the Licking River”

“Gee skull, Michigan sounds more fun than Montana.”

“Actually, the last 3 are in Kentucky.”

“OK, I guess I'll go back to " No Bones Lake" in the Beartooths”

“Picturesque MARVEN GARDENS, whose name is derived from "Mar"-gate and "Ven"-tnor, is located on the line which divides Margate City and Ventnor City, New Jersey. It is noted for its LUXURIOUS HOMES, each one UNUSUAL AND DISTINGUISHED in Architectural design. An old English Tudor manse adjoins a colorful Spanish Colonial which, in turn, faces a French Chateau; all are encircled with WINDING SIDEWALKS and driveways, adorned with GORGEOUS SHRUBBERY and stately trees.”

“Whore meadows, in the Steens Mountain area of Oregon. I really don't know how that name came about.”

“Scully,,, you forgot to mention Big Bone Lick S.P. in the land of Ky.”

“I live near Climax....MI I can't say "in" but I'm always close.!!”

“muttley, my country cousins live near Scotts. They all went to Climax-Scotts H.S.”

“Peculier, Missouri.
Liberal, Kansas.

And, folks, when in the Wheat State, the river is the ar-Kansas river.”

“Boring, Oregon

George, Washington (make sure you stop at the Martha Inn for some cherry pie)

Culdesac, Idaho

Vader, Washington

Lolo, Montana

Usk, Washington”

“Anybody here been to Naked Lady Meadow in the Sierra?”

“I like whore meadows......8)”

“In Nebraska -
Wahoo
Beaver Crossing
McCool Junction”

“Stonerstown
Keisterville
Whiskerville
Newcomer
Blacklick
Slippery Rock
Turtle Creek (pronounced Crick)”

“Blacklick.......8)

Beaver Crossing....8)”

“French Lick, Ind.”

“Good one!!!!!!

Ya got me!!!!!

8)”

“One of the things I've learned from backpacking is to pay attention to discriptive placenames: Don't set up your tent in Mosquito Valley. Don't tarry in Deadman Canyon. And for obvious reasons I've seen both sides (not the top) of Hell for Sure Pass. But Chocolate Lake was fun.”

“The Bad Place.”

“Now thats a name!

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“Naviguesser, that's a good rule of thumb. God knows Poopout Point is well-named after a 3,000' climb out of Tehipite Valley. There are always exceptions, though--Swamp Lakes come to mind. Ummm...forget I said that--they really are swampy and none of you want to go there. Yeah, that's it... ;-)”

“Morehead City, North Carolina
Morehead, Kentucky (also on the Licking River)
Blue Licks Battle Field (hmmmm....that's on the Licking River also. I'm detecting a pattern in Kentucky)”

“Morehead city!!!!

Hahahahahahah.....8)”

“I can just hear somebody introducing him/herself "Hi, I come from Morehead City!"

Ha Ha Ha!!!”

“Oh Man! Now I'm going to have to find out where Swamp Lake is! 8^)”