
It’s like a rainbow of color.” - Joe Gallegos, Salt Lake City, Utah “The snow against the red rock, with greens, yellows, and the blue sky. Joe Gallegos/Used with Permission Bryce Canyon Utah “The harbors freeze and the entire city is covered in a white blanket.” - Annee Elliot, Los Angeles, California After a snow, Erie is a peaceful white as far as we can see from our second-story windows.” - Ernest DuBrul, Luna Pier, MichiganĪnnee Elliot/Used with Permission Stockholm Sweden However, this shallowness allows Erie to freeze over large distances. “Because of its shallow depth, Lake Erie’s waters are usually brownish-clear as opposed to the clear blue of the four deeper Great Lakes. “Transformed from dusty gray to gleaming white.” - Mike Little, OregonĮrnest Dubrul/Used with Permission Lake Erie Luna Pier, Michigan “Reminds me of many of the buildings in Germany! Just beautiful.🙏🏻🙏🏻” - Maria Zoske, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Maria Z./Used with Permission Holy Hill Hubertus, Wisconsin If you are observing from your plane window or from the base of the mountains, there is something magnificent about them.” - Aubree Duncan, Atlanta, Georgia “The Rocky Mountains are really at a grand scale, but in the winter when they are completely covered in snow, the views are amazing. “Nestled right where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet, this place is magical when covered in snow.” - Brett Jones, Boonsboro, MarylandĪubree Duncan/Used with Permission The Rocky Mountains Western U.S. “Hands down the most beautiful place on Earth in the snow.” - Tod Higmanĭoublecompile/CC BY-SA 2.0 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Tod Higman/Used with Permission Four Corners Moab, Utah Cover it in snow, and get to the top of a nearby mountain by sunrise, and the place turns into something else.” - Max Cortesi, Doha, Qatar “Heavy pollution makes the sea of cement that is Ulaanbaatar barely visible in winter. Max Cortesi/Used with Permission Ulaanbaatar Mongolia “The tall trees, just a dusting of snow, the dim light, and reindeer.


Tanya Mysko/Used with Permission Northern Finland Finland “Emitted vapors from the nearby industrial area of Linz, capital of Upper Austria, occasionally turn the riverside forests of the Danube near Steyregg into a mythical winter scene.” - Florian Landertshammer, Austria

“The Grand Canyon of the East is a stunning gorge in all seasons, but the quiet beauty of winter is stunning in its starkness.” - Lauren Adasiak Cocilova, Rochester, New Yorkįlorian Landertshammer/Used with Permission Forests Near the Danube Steyregg, Austria Lauren Cocilova/Used with Permission Letchworth State Park Castile, New York You’ll find a selection of our favorite submissions below, and if you have a snowed-over place of your own that you’d like to share, head over to our new Community forums and let us know all about it! As this polar vortex takes hold, let’s take some time out to marvel at the awesome power of winter. But you also wrote to us about snowy destinations farther afield, including Mongolia and Sweden.

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We received a large number of submissions about the Rocky Mountain region, unsurprisingly including Utah, which once boasted the “Greatest Snow on Earth” on its license plates.
