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Yes, you can get to the mountains quickly but it's not in the mountains like people think it is.
No one who's actually been thinks it's in the mountains. People on CD and elsewhere on the internet like to exaggerate how far it is from the mountain.
Are there really any sizable city that's actually in the mountains? Even if you can find a large enough valley transportation, water and other challenges would make it noneconomical. I can't think of any 1 million+ city in the world.
No one who's actually been thinks it's in the mountains. People on CD and elsewhere on the internet like to exaggerate how far it is from the mountain.
Are there really any sizable city that's actually in the mountains? Even if you can find a large enough valley transportation, water and other challenges would make it noneconomical. I can't think of any 1 million+ city in the world.
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Originally Posted by ShampooBanana
You can be in the mountains within 15-20 minutes from downtown Denver. Many of the burbs are right up against the foothills, or even partially within them (Morrison, Golden, etc.).
No one who's actually been thinks it's in the mountains. People on CD and elsewhere on the internet like to exaggerate how far it is from the mountain.
Are there really any sizable city that's actually in the mountains? Even if you can find a large enough valley transportation, water and other challenges would make it noneconomical. I can't think of any 1 million+ city in the world.
La Rinconada in Peru is just above 16,500 feet and has a population of 30K. It is pretty crazy there and visitors sniff O2.
I don't think I've ever heard of people thinking it's in the mountains. No major metro area is on a mountain.
I'd say Phoenix is the closest large metro to being "in the mountains". It literally has mountains within it (just not the huge ones with pine trees that most people think of when they think of mountains because, well, it's in a desert). Camelback Mountain, Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Lookout Mountain, and North and South Mountain are all within Phoenix proper or one of it's suburbs. It is surrounded on 3 sides by more mountains (Estrellas, White Tanks, Superstitions) and a 20 minutes drive north from Anthem you are hitting more mountains around Black Canyon City/Bumblebee/Crown King.
Go south of the US and there are more major metros that I'd consider "in the mountains".
Cuzco, Peru.
La Paz, Sucre, and Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Santiago, Chile.
Quito, Ecuador.
Mexico City and Toluca, Mexico are literally surrounded by mountains.
Bogota, Colombia
Go to the eastern hemisphere and there are more, too:
Kathmandu, Nepal
Nagano, Japan
Kunming, China
Lhasa, Tibet, China
Dali, China
Lijiang, China
Grenoble, France
Innsbruck, Austria
Turin, Italy
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Skopje, Macedonia
Bilbao, Spain
I'd say Phoenix is the closest large metro to being "in the mountains". It literally has mountains within it (just not the huge ones with pine trees that most people think of when they think of mountains because, well, it's in a desert). Camelback Mountain, Phoenix Mountains Preserve, Lookout Mountain, and North and South Mountain are all within Phoenix proper or one of it's suburbs. It is surrounded on 3 sides by more mountains (Estrellas, White Tanks, Superstitions) and a 20 minutes drive north from Anthem you are hitting more mountains around Black Canyon City/Bumblebee/Crown King.
Go south of the US and there are more major metros that I'd consider "in the mountains".
Cuzco, Peru.
La Paz, Sucre, and Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Santiago, Chile.
Quito, Ecuador.
Mexico City and Toluca, Mexico are literally surrounded by mountains.
Bogota, Colombia
Go to the eastern hemisphere and there are more, too:
Kathmandu, Nepal
Nagano, Japan
Kunming, China
Lhasa, Tibet, China
Dali, China
Lijiang, China
Grenoble, France
Innsbruck, Austria
Turin, Italy
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Skopje, Macedonia
Bilbao, Spain
I forgot about Mexico City although it doesn't really feel like you're in the mountains since you couldn't really see the peaks from most of the city. Lijiang is a tourist town not really a city. I do hope to visit the other places on the list soon.
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