Do you prefer prairie or mountains? Why?

I prefer the prairie. So open, so free….And no chance of falling off a cliff!

I started to say this, but you beat me to it. good answer. john

Mountains.

Although, lying down in a field on a warm sunny day and looking up at a blue sky filled with fluffy clouds, ain’t too shabby.

For driving purposes, though, mountains.

Born and raised in Kansas. I will take the prairie any day. There is nothing more beautiful in nature to me than seeing the wind sweep through a wheat field. It looks like ocean waves. I have been to Colorado and had terrible altitude sickness and was terrified of the winding roads. I never want to go back there.

I prefer the coast with the ocean most of all, but between the two that you mentioned, I prefer mountains.

Mountains

I was born and raised in Nevada, which is quite mountainous. I’ve been going to Tahoe for vacations since I was a baby. I’ve grown to love the mountains. I love winter sports, I love pine forests, I love mountain biking, I love lakes, I love the mountains. Mountains are some of the most beautiful landscape features in the world. In Douglas County, Nevada, near Minden, you can be in the Carson Valley and see the tall mountains just spring up from the ground; there aren’t even any foothills. They just start right there. It’s flat and then…mountains. It’s crazy. And then when you’re on the top of Kingsbury Grade, you have a million-dollar view of the valley. So no, Nevada isn’t just all desert.

Which reminds me, I’m in Tahoe, Nevada right now. :)

Prairie of course(for vacation),actually I enjoy both place(it offers different kind of experience and sensation) but I can’t stand the long journey in mountain plus the extremely high and narrow landscape that might sometime scare me to dead,the other reason is that I’m not get used to live at that high altitude(I live in city) which make me mountainsick at the journey,and another fact is that mountain is a dangerous place to go in raining season which will sometime cause accident!.

Hey, I was born and living in Colorado, a state that contradicts it self. We have a big chunk of the Great Plains, and a large portion of the Rocky Mountains. So I’d have to say both. Just the way it is.

I’d say mountains. No offense but the prairies are the same thing over and over again. Just tall yellow grass for miles. Mountains have the diverse terrain and scenic views.

Off topic, but I live at the beach and my living room window looks west over the Pacific a few hundred feet away. I would vote for ocean – any day. Watching dolphins is one of my favorite activities. The fauna in the mountains (bears) aren’t quite as friendly

Mountains. I left a beautiful valley to live on the prairie. I really miss the mountains.

Definitely the mountains. Or somewhere close so I can see them, like where I live now.

I’ve always lived by the ocean so I have vast undulating motion to contemplate already. I would like to live in the mountains at some point to have shape and shadow, highs and lows.

Mountains.

I grew up around mountains and that’s where we’d go to have fun (ride quads and horses, go camping, etc.) It’s also how I orient myself. I’ve lived in Texas and Kansas and I always felt a little disoriented when I was there. Or was like I wasn’t enclosed enough; like I could fall off the planet. It’s reassuring for me to have them around. It’s hard to explain.

One of the things that I most miss about California is its beautiful mountains. Ever since I came to Texas I have missed the mountains and I feel almost lost without them. Mountains helped me feel safe and whole but now I just have the plains. Although the plains can be beautiful in its own right, I still miss the mountains a lot. I’m definitely a mountains over prairie kind of person. :)

Even though I live in a desert in the southwest, if I had to choose a mountain environment or a prairie, I’d probably go with mountainous terrain. I think it would lend itself to more attractive scenery and a more inviting venue in which to live. John Denver had it right – Rocky Mountain High

Mountains for me. I was raised for several years on a prairie of Colorado and never developed the same fascination and pull of it as I have since being in it’s mountains or any state’s mountain areas. Why? The trees and rocks- chance of water and snow too.

My soul pines for the mountains (no pun intended) the moment they disappear in the rear view mirror.

The prairies put me to sleep.

I just have a bad altitude!

Mountains. I don’t see the appeal of prairie. Reminds me too much of rattlesnakes.

@DominicX Thank you for the magnificent photos. NEVADA has mountains like those? Does it rain there?