List of hillside letters
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This is a list of hillside letters (also known as mountain monograms), large geoglyphs found primarily in the Western United States.[1][2][3] There are about 600 in total, but the status of many of these symbols are uncertain, due to vagueness in sources.
The states with the most hillside letters are:
- California: 81 monograms
- Montana: 80 monograms
- Utah: 78 monograms
- Arizona: 59 monograms
- Nevada: 47 monograms
- Oregon: 39 monograms
- Idaho: 34 monograms
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United States[]
Arizona[]
California[]
Colorado[]
At least 25 monograms, possibly 28
Western Colorado University's W Mountain
South Table Mountain Golden, Colorado
Salida Downtown Historic District in Salida, Colorado
Mount Zion Mountain west of Golden, Colorado
Idaho[]
Montana[]
Nevada[]
New Mexico[]
At least 30 monograms, possibly 37
Oregon[]
Texas[]
Texas' 16 or more monograms are all in the westernmost mountainous, part of the state. There are six (in various states of repair) in El Paso alone, the most in any single city in the United States.
Utah[]
Washington[]
Most of Washington's 18 to 19 monograms are in the arid Eastern part of the state.
Wyoming[]
Between 24 and 25 monograms
More states[]
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More countries[]
Messages are common on the bare mountains surrounding Lima, Peru; most of them are personal graffiti, not community symbols.
See also[]
- Gozan no Okuribi, Japanese festival involving giant hillside bonfires in the shape of characters
Notes[]
- ^ Corning, Evelyn (2007). Hillside Letters A to Z : A Guide to Hometown Landmarks. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Company.
- ^ Rocha, Guy (June 2004), "Hillside Letters: In Plain Sight But Not Intended for Planes", Sierra Sage, archived from the original on 2011-07-22, retrieved 2011-08-09
- ^ Parsons, James J. (1988). "Hillside Letters in the Western United States". Landscape. Santa Fe, N.M. 30 (1): 15–23. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hillside letters. |
- Mountain Monograms, a website explaining the origins and with an incomplete list and pictures
- Hillside Letters, a companion website to a book on the subject
- Letters on Hills, a category on waymarking.com for geocachers
- Geoglyphs
- Hill figures in the United States
- Hill figures in Canada
- Lists of public art