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What are some cities that are in transitional geographic zones. What I mean is like, where one side of the city/metro may be forests and maybe the other is more grassland?
I feel Kansas City is like that. The Missouri side feels way more woodsy and green and the Kansas side feels more open and plains-like.
Miami has the Everglades to its west, but to its north its like coastal plain.
Los Angeles has deserts and mountains as well coastal valleys.
I've never been to Denver, but I know its known for its reputation for being at the edge of the plains and Rockies.
Similar to Los Angeles the SF Bay Area has the coastal zone and the inland zones. Coastal is a lot cooler, fairly mountainous, more forests, etc.. Inland is a lot hotter and drier looking, less trees and some areas are part of the Central Valley which is completely flat and full of farms outside of the sprawl.
Denver and Colorado Springs are in between the Great Plains and the Rockies. They're both technically on the plains with the Rockies right behind them hence the Front Range.
Baton Rouge is in a transition zone as well. To the south and southeast are more of your stereotypical Louisiana bayous and pine forests while to the north it gets more hilly and you get more dedicuous trees with few swamps. For example Zachary is geographically distinct from Prairieville and Maurepas and one can notice a clear difference. This corresponds with the cultural changes too as southeast of BR its more Cajun and Creole influenced while north and east is more of a traditional Deep South culture, still with a clear Cajun and Creole influence though.
Oklahoma City. Driving in from the east it doesn't look much different from Arkansas: hilly, green, lots of trees, like you're still in the Ouachitas. As soon as you get to the western edge of OKC it's flat and brown, definitely Great Plains.
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Denver and Colorado Springs are in between the Great Plains and the Rockies. They're both technically on the plains with the Rockies right behind them hence the Front Range.
The Denver airport, if you removed the view of the mountains off to the distance in the west, one could easily think is in the middle of Kansas or Nebraska. If mountains were not in sight, I'd think I'm in the Midwest, not a "mountain west" state/city at all.
Oklahoma City. Driving in from the east it doesn't look much different from Arkansas: hilly, green, lots of trees, like you're still in the Ouachitas. As soon as you get to the western edge of OKC it's flat and brown, definitely Great Plains.
There probably is a slight difference (like less trees to the west), but the first view is from May and the second view is from February, when trees are bare and the grass is brown in most of the South.
Philly has a few including the swampy pinelands of NJ, shelf where Philly is and the foothills of the Appalachians to the west
most of the EC cities in the NE have a similar dynamic
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