Everyone's been having fun with Google Maps, so here's mine: a little oasis of green, hard up against the mountains, threatened by the vast bleakness to the northwest.
Here's some things to check out:
- Cedar City is the urban area just below center.
- Touching that on the southwest is a round gray-green feature: that's the range of juniper covered lava dome hills - now being suburbanized - where our house is.
- To the northwest is the arc of agricultural land on the alluvial fan of Coal Creek.
- The tightly spaced striations running diagonally on the east side of town are the Hurricane Cliffs that rise 3,000 feet pretty much right out of some folks back yards.
- On the right edge is a pinkish-white scar like arc. That's the breathtaking Cedar Breaks National Monument.
- If you zoom in one level you can see the golf course hugging the mountains.
- If you zoom in two levels you can see Southern Utah University just below center - look for a green rectangle with the oval of the football stadium inside it.
- If you zoom out one level you can see the squiggles of petroglyph riddled Parawan Gap to the left of the shallow lake. Cedar Breaks is more obvious on this view too. The canyons of Zion National Park are just visible at the bottom edge.
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