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Don't you have to pretty much slap a Chinesey name on your resort at this point? It just makes business sense. Been to Vegas lately? Been to Hoover Dam lately? Been to any of these national parks lately? The finest loogie hockers the world has ever seen are taking over the real national parks. Americans are all going to be on their couches plugged into a VR machine virtually walking through national parks here soon enough. Virtually riding 4 wheelers. Bragging about their trips through virtual Yosemite on Facebook. Posting pictures of them and their virtual girlfriends hanging out at the virtual wateralls falls on Instagram. Real national parks are too dangerous. You could get hurt. And you have to use your legs. A bear might growl something racist at you. Mountain Lions are trans phobic. Bald Eagles hate Muslims. Mules hate women. Taking scenic hikes is white privilege. Farting outdoors contributes to global warming etc. etc. Who wants to be around that kind of stuff?
 
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Duck Rodgers said:
Don't you have to pretty much slap a Chinesey name on your resort at this point? It just makes business sense. Been to Vegas lately? Been to Hoover Dam lately? Been to any of these national parks lately? The finest loogie hockers the world has ever seen are taking over the real national parks. Americans are all going to be on their couches plugged into a VR machine virtually walking through national parks here soon enough. Virtually riding 4 wheelers. Bragging about their trips through virtual Yosemite on Facebook. Posting pictures of them and their virtual girlfriends hanging out at the virtual wateralls falls on Instagram. Real national parks are too dangerous. You could get hurt. And you have to use your legs. A bear might growl something racist at you. Mountain Lions are trans phobic. Bald Eagles hate Muslims. Mules hate women. Taking scenic hikes is white privilege. Farting outdoors contributes to global warming etc. etc. Who wants to be around that kind of stuff?
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Boris said:
[MENTION=430]Dr. Jones[/MENTION] what about a play on frontier and country? I know I know it is over played but still. Frontier Estates at Castle Country. Okay that sounds gay. Frontier Fairgrounds in Canyon Escape. Nope still ghey. Castle County Estates on the Frontier. Ghey ghey ghey. Castle Mountain on The Liftoff? Castle Marbles at the Setoff/gateway/edges/confluence?
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In Utah, "Castle" anything would mean Price, Utah. . . not St. George.

I think just throwing all kinds of names up might find one that people will notice.

This spot is geologically significant. Utah Hill, or the Beaver Dam Mountains, is a nice little piece of the Basin and Range block faulting province. The Colorado Plateau is what is east of the Basin and Range. A few spots west of the general demarcation have some elements of the Colorado Plateau, which was when it's prominent and distinctive sedimentary deposits were laid down, a basin. So those isolated areas west of the line probably were also low-lying spots compared to the great Seveir Uplift, and ancient mountain province believed to have been as high, or higher than the Himalayas,

The great tectonic forces reversed themselves, after a lot of erosion, and the Colorado lowland was uplifted to the plateau it is today. There has been a lot of water go under the Dixie area, and the thousands of feet of salt that were once there somewhat dissolved away, resulting in a huge sink hole the size of Washington County, which has made Utah's Dixie a nice warm little valley a lot of snowbirds prefer. It was, technically, a part of the Colorado Plateau, but the main line of demarcation actually shifted eastward to Hurricane

Moapa Valley to the southwest is another interesting place, with the Valley of Fire formation.
 
Posted this in another thread but what about The Edge at Grand Peaks. Or just Grand Peaks. You'd have the double entendre there and no one would ever know it but us here on Jazzfanz.
 
Peep's Place. Straight up.

Look, the problem here is how to find a name for a western campsite that will appeal to a Kentucky man.

That west mountain, and the ridge associated with it, are limestone, with an actual light blue color. Wasn't there a popular country music group that made hay with being backwoods somehow.... The Blue Ridge Boys.

Maybe that could strike a chord with Peeks, and Peeps generally, though I think Peeks is more Blue Grass than Blue Ridge.

Blue Ridge Ranch. Blue Ridge Camp. Blue Ridge Point. Blue Ridge Trails. or, just Blue Ridge. I like that. There's no grass there, though, yet. But hey, Peeks can plant grass. Blue Grass.

Actually, I paused a sec above when I called it Peek's Place. That could work, really. Or, even, Peeps' Place.

There is sort of cactus that is pretty bluish, mixed in with the sparse grass and creosote chaparral. The Blue Cactus.

Blue Point is my best of the day, I think. It sets the place off as something unique in redrock country.
 
This particular project's theme and name will not pay hommidge to some Utahan thing that no one outside of Utah would get.

I intend for this to have global pull due to the parks. So it needs a name-identifier relevant in that way.
The other side (more for Utahans (what I have been referring to as the edge) will be marketed completely differently and have more appeal to how Utahans view and vacation southern Utah.
 
Dr. Jones said:
This particular project's theme and name will not pay hommidge to some Utahan thing that no one outside of Utah would get.

I intend for this to have global pull due to the parks. So it needs a name-identifier relevant in that way.
The other side (more for Utahans (what I have been referring to as the edge) will be marketed completely differently and have more appeal to how Utahans view and vacation southern Utah.
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I'm not sure exactly what you should name it because there are probably all sorts of considerations I don't understand, but regardless, I recommend placing this sign exactly 8.535 kilometers away from your project.
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Dr. Jones said:
This particular project's theme and name will not pay hommidge to some Utahan thing that no one outside of Utah would get.

I intend for this to have global pull due to the parks. So it needs a name-identifier relevant in that way.
The other side (more for Utahans (what I have been referring to as the edge) will be marketed completely differently and have more appeal to how Utahans view and vacation southern Utah.
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150 acres isn't big enough for all that. Even in a utopian world.

You're essentially building a sort of upscale Marriot Suites or whatever. You've got no ocean like San Diego, no golf course. . . . no real river or canyon or mountain, actually. Las Vegas has timeshare condos on the Strip and is just as "central" to all those national parks, and the billions of Chinese billionaires all like to gamble like crazy, and. . . uhmmm. . . . showgirls.

upscale fitness dudes. . . . hikers or bikers. . . . will think this is just too far from the grand national parks. It's six hours drive in a car to the South Rim, four hours to the North Rim. Kanab would just look better.. . or. . . uhhmmm. . . . Bryce. And St. George has forty good motels as it stands with continental breakfasts and pools.

On 150 acres in that place you need something else to bump it up to world class destination status, and in that game it doesn't matter if the newly invented "Trend" has an actual local hook or not, you're building the hook somehow, and making it something people will notice with your advertising.

"Contre" is the kind of name you're looking for. All kinds of 'nuance" and it can be said with the ultimate sort of snobbishness. really classy "country", and something that doesn't give anyone else the last word. Maybe you could even keep the end as in "contrend", but I think it's better left understated, in true Brit fashion with French overtones.
 
babe said:
150 acres isn't big enough for all that. Even in a utopian world.

You're essentially building a sort of upscale Marriot Suites or whatever. You've got no ocean like San Diego, no golf course. . . . no real river or canyon or mountain, actually. Las Vegas has timeshare condos on the Strip and is just as "central" to all those national parks, and the billions of Chinese billionaires all like to gamble like crazy, and. . . uhmmm. . . . showgirls.

upscale fitness dudes. . . . hikers or bikers. . . . will think this is just too far from the grand national parks. It's six hours drive in a car to the South Rim, four hours to the North Rim. Kanab would just look better.. . or. . . uhhmmm. . . . Bryce. And St. George has forty good motels as it stands with continental breakfasts and pools.

On 150 acres in that place you need something else to bump it up to world class destination status, and in that game it doesn't matter if the newly invented "Trend" has an actual local hook or not, you're building the hook somehow, and making it something people will notice with your advertising.

"Contre" is the kind of name you're looking for. All kinds of 'nuance" and it can be said with the ultimate sort of snobbishness. really classy "country", and something that doesn't give anyone else the last word. Maybe you could even keep the end as in "contrend", but I think it's better left understated, in true Brit fashion with French overtones.
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