North America: Ley Lines, Grids & Nodes

These places are living circuits. Where you visit, go with reverence, leave no trace, and honor Indigenous sovereignty and local guidance.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST (AK • BC • WA • OR)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Olympic Peninsula & Hoh Rainforest (WA)
• Mount Rainier, Mount Baker, Mount Adams (WA)
• Snoqualmie Falls; Columbia River Gorge: Multnomah, Latourell, Wahkeena (WA/OR)
• Silver Falls State Park – Trail of Ten Falls; Crater Lake (OR)
• Three Sisters / Broken Top • Smith Rock (OR)
• Wells Gray (Helmcken & Spahats Falls), Yoho (Takakkaw Falls), Garibaldi / Black Tusk, Cathedral Grove (BC)
• Glacier Bay, Kenai Fjords, Denali region (AK)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Hanford Reach / Columbia River (legacy nuclear contamination)
• Klamath River (dam removals underway—prayers and ceremony welcome)
• Old-growth logging fronts (e.g., Vancouver Island Fairy Creek; interior BC habitat corridors)
• Urban river corridors (Willamette, lower Duwamish)

CALIFORNIA & THE SIERRA / DESERT SOUTHERN CA

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Mount Shasta (CA)
• Yosemite NP (Yosemite, Vernal/Nevada, Bridalveil Falls) • Sequoia / Kings Canyon
• Lake Tahoe • Mono Lake tufa • Point Reyes • Big Sur (McWay Falls)
• Joshua Tree NP • Anza-Borrego • Channel Islands
• Burney Falls; Feather Falls

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Salton Sea • Owens Valley (water extraction legacy)
• LA River & Central Valley wetlands
• Kern County oil fields, abandoned mine sites (mercury/cinnabar belts)

DESERT SOUTHWEST (AZ • NM • UT • NV)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Sedona (Cathedral Rock, Bell Rock)
• Grand Canyon (Havasu/ Supai—permit & respect) • Monument Valley
• Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands, Arches, Grand Staircase–Escalante, Bears Ears
• Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, White Sands (NM)
• Shiprock (Tsé Bitʼaʼí) (sacred—observe boundaries)
• Lower Calf Creek Falls (UT)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Uranium mine sites on Navajo Nation; Moab tailings cleanup
• San Juan/Animas River (mine spill legacy)
• Colorado River overuse (Glen Canyon/Lake Powell & Mead)
• Fracking footprints in the San Juan Basin

ROCKIES & GREAT PLAINS (CO • WY • MT • ID • ND/SD • NE/KS)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Rocky Mountain NP (Longs Peak) • Garden of the Gods • Great Sand Dunes (CO)
• Yellowstone (geysers/Grand Prismatic) • Grand Teton (WY)
• Glacier NP (MT) • Craters of the Moon & Sawtooths / Redfish Lake (ID)
• Devils Tower (Bear Lodge Butte) • Black Hills & Badlands (SD)
• Bighorn Medicine Wheel (WY)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Berkeley Pit, Butte (copper) • Powder River Basin coal scars
• Prairie pothole wetlands & bison corridors
• River health below agricultural corridors ( Platte, Arkansas)

MIDWEST & GREAT LAKES (MN • WI • MI • IL • IN • OH • ON)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Boundary Waters Canoe Area (MN) • Itasca (Mississippi headwaters)
• Apostle Islands sea caves; Door County (WI)
• Porcupine Mountains, Kitch-iti-kipi, Pictured Rocks, Isle Royale, Sleeping Bear Dunes (MI)
• Niagara Falls / Bruce Peninsula (ON)
• Letchworth SP (“Grand Canyon of the East”), Watkins Glen, Taughannock Falls (NY)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Love Canal legacy zone (Niagara) • Cuyahoga River industrial stretches
• Kalamazoo River spill corridor
• Chicago Calumet wetlands & lakefront bird flyways

NORTHEAST & APPALACHIANS (ME → GA)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Acadia / Cadillac Mountain, Katahdin / Baxter (ME)
• White Mountains (Franconia Notch/Flume, Mt. Washington), Green Mountains (VT)
• Adirondacks (High Peaks / Mt. Marcy) • Catskills (Kaaterskill Falls)
• Shawangunk Ridge (Minnewaska/Mohonk) • Hudson Highlands (Storm King/Breakneck)
• Delaware Water Gap (Dingmans/Raymondskill Falls)
• Shenandoah (VA) • New River Gorge (WV) • Great Smoky Mountains (Clingmans Dome)
• Linville Gorge, Grandfather Mountain, Pisgah (Looking Glass), DuPont (Triple Falls), Nantahala (NC)
• Mammoth Cave, Red River Gorge, Cumberland Falls moonbow (KY)
• Tallulah Gorge, Amicalola Falls, Cloudland Canyon (GA)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Mountaintop-removal coalfields (southern WV/KY/VA)
• Acid mine drainage streams (e.g., Cheat River tributaries)
• Housatonic River PCB sediments (MA/CT)

SOUTHEAST & GULF (FL • GA • AL • MS • LA • TX)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Okefenokee Swamp (GA/FL) • Cumberland Island (GA)
• Florida springs: Ichetucknee, Wakulla, Silver Springs, Ginnie • Crystal River (manatees)
• Everglades / Big Cypress • Blue Spring SP
• Natchez Trace ceremonial corridor
• Big Bend (TX) • Enchanted Rock (TX) • Hot Springs NP (AR)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Gulf Coast wetlands loss (LA delta/Barataria)
• Florida springs nitrate overload & aquifer stress
• Coal ash ponds (Carolinas/TN) • Dead zone at Mississippi outflow

WESTERN CANADA (YT • NWT • BC • AB)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Haida Gwaii (SG̱ang Gwaay) • Pacific Rim / Long Beach (Vancouver Island)
• Garibaldi / Black Tusk, Joffre Lakes, Whistler / Brandywine Falls (BC)
• Wells Gray (Helmcken Falls) • Yoho (Takakkaw Falls) • Emerald Lake
• Banff (Lake Louise, Moraine Lake) • Jasper (Athabasca Falls, Maligne Canyon)
• Glacier & Kootenay NPs • Mount Robson
• Tombstone Territorial Park (YT) • Nahanni (Virginia Falls, NWT)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Alberta oil sands / Athabasca tailings
• Fraser & Columbia salmon migration corridors
• Site C (Peace River) flood impacts • Old-growth logging frontiers

CENTRAL & EASTERN CANADA (ON • QC • NB • NS • NL/LAB)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Algonquin • Niagara Escarpment (The Grotto / Flowerpot Island) • Manitoulin (ON)
• Lake Superior PP / Agawa Rock • Sleeping Giant (Thunder Bay)
• Montmorency Falls • Saguenay Fjord • Laurentians / Mt. Tremblant (QC)
• Bay of Fundy / Hopewell Rocks (NB) • Kejimkujik (Mi’kmaq petroglyphs, NS)
• Gros Morne (Tablelands) & Torngat Mountains (NL/Labrador)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Sudbury mining lands (ongoing regreening—support)
• St. Lawrence River industrial stretches & whale corridors
• Fundy right-whale noise/ship-strike mitigation

MEXICO (adds the Mesoamerican ceremonial spine)

✨ Key nodes / vortex sites

• Teotihuacán (Pyramids of Sun & Moon) • Tula
• Chichén Itzá, Uxmal (Puuc), Cenote ring / Chicxulub (Yucatán)
• Palenque (Chiapas) • Monte Albán & Mitla (Oaxaca)
• Hierve el Agua (petrified falls) • Sumidero Canyon
• Sian Ka’an Biosphere • Tulum / Cobá
• Volcano spine: Popocatépetl / Iztaccíhuatl, Nevado de Toluca, Pico de Orizaba
• Copper Canyon (Barrancas del Cobre)

🩹 Calling for restoration

• Selva Lacandona deforestation (Chiapas)
• Mangrove and lagoon protections (Riviera Maya / Sian Ka’an)
• Sonora copper (Cananea / tailings), Lake Chapala water quality
• Monarch overwintering forest protections (Michoacán)