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How many of these "Great Places" have you visited?

By GREG PECK ( Contact ) Friday, August 14, 2009 - 4:40 p.m.

Newspaper editors get inundated with e-mails. I typically can get up to 100, sometimes more, every day. Some of these I can kill without even opening. Sometimes I opt out of e-mail user groups. Some readers constantly send me stuff that's circling the Internet that they think I'll be interested in and have time to read (Guess what; I usually don't. My plate is full).

But a recent news release e-mail intrigued me. It featured the "100 Greatest Places to Stand in the USA." People are voting on their favorites, so results have been changing in the last few months.

Let's see, I've been to Hoover Dam and Niagara Falls. I've seen Mount Rushmore and the USS Arizona Memorial, Old Faithful and the Statue of Liberty; the Liberty Bell and Sears Tower in Chicago. Some others, too.

As vacation season winds down, maybe you have a week left to schedule and a little vacation money socked away. If so, perhaps you would like to visit one of the "Greatest Places" in the list here.

If nothing else, look over the list this weekend and see how many of these places you've visited. Please share with me your favorites here and explain why.

Greg Peck

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Nina
Aug 16, 2009 at 12:26 p.m.
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I have been to 27 out of 100. I'd love to see so many more! Most of them were places where I could camp in national forests or parks, so I have seen few of the "city" landmarks except for Chicago, DC, and New York.

topsgt132
Aug 16, 2009 at 1:46 a.m.
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Been to 9. Sad that the ones closest to Janesville are some of the ones I haven't been to.

NVgrf
Aug 15, 2009 at 6:50 p.m.
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30 of top 50 Drove to LV by way of Hoover Dam yesterday. The new bypass is almost done and is incredible. And I still call it the Sears Tower too.

casey
Aug 15, 2009 at 6:37 p.m.
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I've seen 4 of the list and while I haven't seen Boulder Dam I have seen and been in Grand Coulee Dam which is bigger, taller and less famous as Boulder. Grand Coulee is 500 ft tall and 500 ft thick at the base and backs up Lake Roosevelt.

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