Oregon’s spectacular Crater Lake is (at its deepest) 1,932 feet deep — the deepest lake in the United States. The lake is in a volcanic caldera that was formed 6900 years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. You can also see the lake’s Wizard Island in this photo.

Thanks: Jim Heid

Possibly the world’s largest tagging – Dave has written his name across a field in Bunker Hill, IL. I guess he must have been really bored one day.

Update: We found Dave!

It turns out that Dave wasn’t bored one day, it was Don…

I’m the Dave, but to correct the caption, it was my neighbor Don (a farmer) who wrote my name with his plow because I fly a gyrocopter in the area. My airstrip can be seen by scrolling about 1/2 mile northeast of the name. Don’s farm and grass airstrip is about 1/2 mile south of the writing.

Dave was also kind enough to email me a couple of shots (Picture 1, Picture 2) taken from his Gryocopter.

Here are the snapshots I took during the few days the writing was in the field. Oddly the pictures from 100 – 200 feet in an open frame aircraft look very similar to the imagery from space when zoomed in.

San Onofre, California

Thanks jbum & Shadis

Pickering, Onatario

Thanks Tyler

Dresden, Illinois is the USA’s first full-scale, privately financed nuclear power plant.

The cooling channels system can be seen winding through the Des Plains river and the Dresden cooling lake to the south. If you zoom all the way in, to the northeast of the reactor complex is a lumpy area of ground. This is where some spent fuel rods are buried. There were large yellow sirens placed throughout the area and dosimiters hanging on the telephone poles at most every intersection. They test the sirens on the first tuesday of the month. It’s an eerie sounding chorus that pours in through the window if there isn’t one too nearby to drown the others out.

Thanks “The Lightning Stalker”

Perry, Ohio. Apparently home to the best early-season fishing on Lake Erie thanks to the cooling water discharge from the power plant.

Thanks Tim

Arco, Idaho was the world’s first nuclear power plant.

Thanks “Punk Floyd”

Davis-Besse power plant, Ohio & Palo Verde, Arizona. Palo Verde’s three huge reactors give it the largest capacity of any nuclear power plant in the United States.

Thanks Stilt

The Comanche Peak Unit 2 nuclear power plant in Glen Rose, Texas.

Thanks “Flemming Bach”

Callaway, Missouri has a beautiful plume of steam (I hope) coming out of its cooling tower.

Thanks zprime

Braidwood, Illinois

Thanks Jason

Phew! There were lots, lots more but after a while they all look similar. I tried to pick the most visually interesting ones. Enjoy.

A giant sign just west of Usery Pass, Arizona pointing the way to Phoenix. Neat

Thanks: Richard Kaszeta

Check out this cool picture of overlapping seasons in Utah, and another in Missouri on the Mississippi river.

Thanks to Kyle French and Bill Keaggy.