Mr. Jaynes also said the view was enhanced along I-95 and the Merritt Parkway because the state Department of Transportation did a particularly aggressive brush clearing along those roads, allowing the plants more sun and breathing room.
Several natural features are visible from clearing along the trail, such as the Shawangunk Ridge to the west, and the Plattekill Creek between New Paltz and Gardiner.
After stopping several times to camp, the expedition followed the road to a clearing along the Xingu River, one of the Amazon's major tributaries.
In a vast forest clearing along the Delaware river, Penn planned a great port city connected to the country by 17th-century superhighways uniting commercial and landed interests.
On the other side of the city, Alex Hughes, 16, took side streets to a secret clearing along Interstate 5. On colder nights, he and Clinton Anchors have built a fire in a long shallow trench, eventually covering it with dirt to create a heated mound where they could put their blankets.
Kipu Falls sits in a clearing along the Huleia Stream, which pours out of the hills of southeastern Kauai into the island's biggest harbor, Nawiliwili.
