mesa

Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Under the veil of the Manhattan Project, this remote mesa became the site of a profound scientific pivot that ended a world war and ushered in the nuclear age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

It also says the fire sparked by its power line spread quickly because it was on top of a flat mesa, allowing the fire to spread along the ground, and ignited nearby vegetation.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa.

From Scientific American ● May 17, 2023

He spit the shells into the snow below the trail and tried to see into the distance below the mesa, over the edge of the steep trail where her house was.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Washington, Utah, located just southwest of Zion National Park, is surrounded by cinematic mesas and has long been a hub for exploring the natural wonders of the American west.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

Foothills and valleys, groves and canyons, even the mesas, plateaus and plains of the Sierra and the Central Valley — Lehrer calls all of it a “choreography of place.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

My roughly 60-mile section was marked by sienna-hued mesas and buttes, and cornflower-blue skies.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2024

The central summit area is marked by several elevated mesas forming an arc, reaching a regional high and sloping downhill away from the summit area.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Late in the afternoon they stopped to rest the animals in a canyon surrounded by red-rock mesas.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko