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Saw this picture in a Yahoo! article. Says it is Indiana. I never knew Indiana has any such cool terrain. Where abouts is this?

BackInTex wrote:Saw this picture in a Yahoo! article. Says it is Indiana. I never knew Indiana has any such cool terrain. Where abouts is this?

It's not in Jasper County, that's for durn sure.

I'm skeptical.

The southern part of the state is hilly but that looks Western to me. Indiana is almost all hardwood trees and very little conifer/exposed rock as in the picture.

The story that accompanies that picture is about Fort Wayne, IN. There is nothing remotely like that near Fort Wayne.

andrewjackson wrote:I'm skeptical.

The southern part of the state is hilly but that looks Western to me. Indiana is almost all hardwood trees and very little conifer/exposed rock as in the picture.

The story that accompanies that picture is about Fort Wayne, IN. There is nothing remotely like that near Fort Wayne.

I lived in Indiana for 5 years and never saw anything that looked anywhere near that pretty. Except for the leaves in Monroe and Brown counties.

That pic looks more like Colorado.

The only area that I can think even vaguely like that is Clifty Falls State Park near the town of Madison on the Ohio River.

But the scale, and the trees, are all wrong.

I'm more than skeptical. I've been to Ft. Wayne. That ain't anywhere near Ft. Wayne. I posted a comment on the BW site to ask them what the heck was up with their pictures. We'll see if they respond.

Tocqueville3 wrote: That pic looks more like Colorado.

SteelersFan and I go hunting in an area in Colorado that looks very much like that.

High, sheer cliffs down to a flood plain with a river running through it. With ours, you can still see the remains of some old narrow gauge train tracks, though. Still, could be other places in CO with no train history.

Tocqueville3 wrote:
That pic looks more like Colorado.

Or Wyoming, or Idaho, or Montana, or Utah, or ....

With the whitewater on that river, I could believe that was the Snake near the Tetons or the Eagle in central Colorado.

silvercamaro wrote:

Tocqueville3 wrote:
That pic looks more like Colorado.

Or Wyoming, or Idaho, or Montana, or Utah, or ....

With the whitewater on that river, I could believe that was the Snake near the Tetons or the Eagle in central Colorado.

It's a much smaller river than those. Maybe the Payette in Idaho?

Maybe they contacted the Indiana state office for child welfare and asked them to provide something to encourage people to raise their kids in indiana. All they could come up with was this picutre which they forgot to include the following caption:

"In Indiana you won't have to worry about your kids doing foolish and dangerous stuff like this kid. The worst that could happein in Indiana is he could fall 5 ft."

Maybe not.

What Yahoo! article was this? Can someone please post a link?

Lord, I can't go back there.

MarleysGh0st wrote:What Yahoo! article was this? Can someone please post a link?

This is the source article:
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/co ... 238652.htm

Here is the linked set of images:

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11 ... /index.htm

andrewjackson wrote:Here is the linked set of images:

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11 ... /index.htm

Now the picture in the middle of that row. That's Indiana. Or perhaps the covered bridge. There's a covered bridge festival in southern Indiana, so there must be covered bridges.

Are you sure it's not India?

Or maybe Ft. Collins, rather than Ft. Wayne.

Or maybe it's an artist's view of post-apocalyptic Indiana, after the Wabash has cut a canyon, 50,000 years from now.

I'm just trying to help.

Catfish wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:Here is the linked set of images:

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11 ... /index.htm

Now the picture in the middle of that row. That's Indiana. Or perhaps the covered bridge. There's a covered bridge festival in southern Indiana, so there must be covered bridges.

Well, close to southern Indiana. The Covered Bridge Festival is in Parke County which is pretty much in the middle of the state, north v. south. It is directly west of Indianapolis. Parke County has 30 covered bridges and calls itself the Covered Bridge Capital of the World.

I agree, though, that the pictures in that row are better representations of Indiana.

andrewjackson wrote:Well, close to southern Indiana. The Covered Bridge Festival is in Parke County which is pretty much in the middle of the state, north v. south. It is directly west of Indianapolis.

Sweetie, to me, anything south of Rensselaer is southern Indiana. Although now that I've found it only takes 4 hours to drive to Kentucky, I'll have to change that perception.

[Ooh-ooh! I forgot to mention that we decided to become Boilermakers several weeks ago. My son's band participated in Purdue High-School Marching Band Day. It was my first college football game. It was awesome! We have drunk the kool-aid. At least until he decides to go to ISU or something.]

Catfish wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:Well, close to southern Indiana. The Covered Bridge Festival is in Parke County which is pretty much in the middle of the state, north v. south. It is directly west of Indianapolis.

Sweetie, to me, anything south of Rensselaer is southern Indiana. Although now that I've found it only takes 4 hours to drive to Kentucky, I'll have to change that perception.

[Ooh-ooh! I forgot to mention that we decided to become Boilermakers several weeks ago. My son's band participated in Purdue High-School Marching Band Day. It was my first college football game. It was awesome! We have drunk the kool-aid. At least until he decides to go to ISU or something.]

I had a feeling that was from a Region-ish point of view. It's north of I-70 so definitely not southern Indiana.

Good decision on Purdue. Whatever the reason.