Rewilding Urban Rivers

Tag: hiking

  • Mount Olympus National Park

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    I didn’t really plan on spending the full moon solstice on Mount Olympus, but that’s how it worked out. Mount Olympus is probably the closest parallel to the North American national park model in Greece. There’s a large visitor center at the base of the mountain with very thoughtful and informative displays, much better than…

  • Zagoria

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    Zagoria Well this place is certainly different.  Zagoria is a vast mountainous region with extensive forests, scattered villages, bisected by deep canyons, and clear blue streams, one of which becomes the Aoos River, the longest undammed river in Europe. Zagoria derives from the Slavic meaning land between the mountains. Aoos Vikos National Park encompasses nearly…

  • The National Parks of Greece

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    Greg Gordon
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    My initial impression of Greece is that it resembles the American West in so many ways. Driving north of Athens, the granite mountains covered in oak and juniper remind me of central Arizona, even more so with the recent fires that have denuded the landscape so that only gnarled white skeletons of trees remain. Like…