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National Park Mystery Photo 45: A Narrow Passageway

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The narrow passageway shown in Mystery Photo #45 is located somewhere in the National Park System. Can you pinpoint this location? To get full credit for this one you need to state the name of the passageway and identify the national park in which it is located.

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Lake Chaubunagungamaug, a 1,442-acre lake near the southern Massachusetts  town of Webster, bears an inordinately long name (perhaps the longest place name in the United States) that is often translated as "you fish on your side, I fish on my side, and nobody fishes in the middle."  However, its approximate meaning in Nipmuc (an Algonquian language) is closer to "fishing place at the boundaries -- neutral meeting grounds." This water body is also called Webster Lake, especially by people who don't know how to pronounce Chaubunagungamaug.

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Not Grand Wash at Capitol Reef National Park.


Is it Old Rag in Shenandoah?


This is a reach, but it reminded me of a cleft I hiked through on the Pueblo Alto Trail in Chaco Culture NHP.  However, the lighting looks more like it's in a cave, so I don't have a lot of confidence in the above guess.  Looks like I'm not alone in being stumped today, though.


Not Old Rag in Shenandoah National Park. This photo was not taken in an eastern national park.


Not a cleft along the Pueblo Alto Trail in Chaco Culture Natonal Historical Park. However, your idea of a cleft along a trail means you are thinking in the right direction.


Is this on the Bear Gulch Trail in Pinnacles National Monument?  You have had a trend to mystery spots in California lately.


Not Bear Gulch Trail in Pinnacles National Monument.


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