It is especially significant because most of the 104,000 acres - magnificent forests, crystalline lakes and rugged mountain peaks - form a single uninterrupted tract.

So we pushed down and then up more jagged rocks until a crystalline, greenish blue lake appeared less than an hour later through the clouds.

Located on a hilltop overlooking the crystalline lake, the 1847 inn also has a dining porch, half covered, half open-air.

In addition to low mountains, there are waterfalls and crystalline lakes.

Sils-Maria is a bland one-horse resort village under spectacular mountains between two crystalline lakes.

Tapawingo, set amid gardens of rudbeckia and giant alliums, overlooking a crystalline lake reflecting stands of firs, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in May.

Grottaferrata is one of the nicest of the towns known collectively as the Castelli Romani, characterized by crystalline volcanic lakes and low hills.

Bright puddles of spilled fuel gleamed like little crystalline lakes.

Jenny, Jackson and Leigh are large, crystalline lakes that sit at the base of the Tetons.

These crystalline lakes are in stark contrast with the parched maquis vegetation of the encircling hills.