Where Am I? - A Fun Game (I hope)

This is a game I made up. I hope it works and I hope it's fun. I will show you a picture of an obscure place and you have to figure out, 20 questions style, where it is. Using maps, you will narrow down where the place is. You can ask more than 20 questions, but I can only provide one-word answers, usually "yes" or "no".

Here's a site where they have topo maps. http://www.topozone.com/viewmaps.asp You'll probably need that. If anyone has any other favorite topo web sites, feel free to inform us.

Anyway, here is the place. What is the name of this creek/valley/canyon?

Are you west of the Mississippi?

Beautiful picture by the way

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Yes

Thanks

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Are you in California?

(Edited to say.. I love geography games! Thanks, Kelli!!)

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Yes

Does the name of the location have a color in it's name?

No

wild guess, San Juan Creek, int he chapparall area off rte 74 between I-5 and I-15

~ Blooms

Nope (Where's that? San Diego County?)

I have no clue, but wish I was there! =)

Is it (looking at map of California...) south of the Los Padres National Forest?

The road [the Ortega Hgwy] goes between Capistrano and Lake Elsinore and the entrance to the trail along the creek is right on the Riverside/Orange County border. I was just being smart alecky. But boy it woulda been neat if I'd been right. LOL

Is it in the Santa Monica Mtns?

Whoa... I don't know anything about CA, so this doesn't count as a question... but kudos on inventing such a fun and challenging game! :)

Sarah

Yes to the Santa Monica Mountains

Is it Malibu Creek?

Happy Birthday, Kelli!!!

No

Thanks :-)

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Kelli
Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuuuu
Have a great day

Happy Birthday Kelli, and oh my have a great day.

Lessee, what do I know about those mountains? hmm not much. but I see that they're close in to you. har har har. BBL

Cold Creek ?

Is it between Mullholland and the ocean?

Is it close in the San Gabriel Mnts.?

Thanks, Janett :-)

Cold Creek - No, but not a bad guess

Between Mulholland and the ocean - Yes

Close to the San Gabriel Mountains - No, not really

How about ~ in the San Bernardino Nat. Forest?

Calleguas Creek?

No and no

Let's see...how about Deep Creek? Can you say if we are hot or cold? or warm?

Alex, I'm betting it all, and this is my final answer ... Topanga?

The closest so far has been Malibu Creek.

HInt: It's in here http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=34.0751&lon=-118.78551&s=200&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG

Is it Solstice Canyon? I like the name. :-) We were in your neck of the woods last year (we went to Knott's Berry Farm and then went to a wedding in Ojai) and we REALLY wanted to stop in Malibu Creek State Park on our way back to the airport, but we ran out of time.

I love Malibu Creek State Park. I used to do volunteer work there.

No, not Solstice Canyon.

Does the first letter of the first word in its name start with A-M?

Is an El Nido a big swampy area?
Is Escondido really hidden? the highway's right there.
Is point Dume indicated by the red cross on the map?

next wild guess, up the side road to Newton Canyon.

~~~waving

Is it around Santa Margarita or Dripping Spring ?

I think nido means nest. To the east of this map there is a little community called Monte Nido and I am told that it means Mountain Nest.

I've never been to the Escondido Beach so I don't know if it is hidden or not. It might be that there are bluffs above it that hide it from the road.

The red cross is just the center of the map. Point Dume is the name the quadrangle that this map comes from. It's the point of land cut off at the map. (Yes, most people pronounce it like Point Doom.)

Newton Canyon is getting closer.

Santa Margarita or Dripping Spring? I don't see those on the map so I will say no.

How about Zuma Canyon? Is that closer?
Joey

That's closer

Is it close to Newton Falls?

Zuma Canyon is closer.

Ramiza Canyon

Ramizez Canyon had to look up the spelling

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