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I am always amazed how different the various metro areas look from an airplane than from the ground. I think most places look better from 2000 feet up than they do from the ground.
Part of the advantage of looking at the City/Metro area from the air is you get to see natural areas that you may not even notice from the typical through roads like Highways or cross town commercial roads. And I think you see more trees from 2000 feet than at ground level.
So which Metro Area looks most beautiful from 2000 feet in the air looking out a plane window?
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Seattle is absolutely stunning from an aerial point of view. I think the Puget Sound area has the most interesting topography in the US with snowcapped mountain peaks, the big glacier covered volcanic mountains, the vast evergreen forests, and bodies of water around every nook between the hills.
Seattle is absolutely stunning from an aerial point of view. I think the Puget Sound area has the most interesting topography in the US with snowcapped mountain peaks, the big glacier covered volcanic mountains, the vast evergreen forests, and bodies of water around every nook between the hills.
OMG, I was going to say the exact same things but you beat me to it. Seattle is a fantastic city by ground or by air. The views are marvelous with all the grenery, tall snow-capped mountains nearby, and one of the best city skylines in the U.S. No brown haze, dust, or filthy pollution. It's one of the few cities that looks like heaven on earth from the air.
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San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, Seattle, Honolulu in the US from what I have experienced....I bet Anchorage and Salt Lake City look awesome too.
Yes Anchorage is quite impressive from the air, the mountains and isolation are quite captivating.
Boston is also very impressive from an aerial point of view. The harbor is really interesting to look at with all the islands and peninsulas and the tip of Cape Cod off in the distance.
I left Las Vegas at night one time and that was quite the spectacle. The illuminated colors of the strip and then the patch of city lights surrounded by complete darkness.
Miami, Honolulu, NYC, and Chicago stand out to me the most. I've never flown into Seattle but I'd imagine that along with Vancouver would be pretty scenic.
Vegas at night deserves a mention too. The coastline of Southern CA is pretty nice, particularly San Diego. And flying west to east from SD it's kind of cool to see it transition from city/coast to inland/mountains then to desert and also getting a view of Tijuana and how it contrasts to SD.
I love the waters off Miami and Honolulu. Flying out of Hawaii one time I saw humback whales breaching out of the water next to the airport, that was cool.
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Chicago is pretty cool when you fly in from the east over the lake.
I actually came into Chicago at dusk when the city was just beginning to illuminate and approached from the west, the jet made a horseshoe turn right over the lake and then descended into O'Hare with me lucky enough to have a window seat loooking south towards the city on the way in, that was amazing!
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Seattle is a fantastic city by ground or by air. The views are marvelous with all the grenery, tall snow-capped mountains nearby, and one of the best city skylines in the U.S. No brown haze, dust, or filthy pollution. It's one of the few cities that looks like heaven on earth from the air.
