: a deep or precipitous cleft : ravine
especially
: one occupied by a torrent
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the gulch floods in the spring with the runoff from the mountains, so wait until later in the summer to hike it
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The skies are the star attraction at Clear Sky Resorts Bryce Canyon, a new property set in a quiet gulch just 16 miles southeast of Bryce Canyon National Park.
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Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning red gulches, winding rivers and a moon-like landscape where a volcano with a caldera once 600 times larger than Mount St. Helens erupted, stands as the largest unprotected wilderness area in the American West.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 May 2024
The gulch and the forest around it became a bonfire pit waiting for a spark.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
But years of deforestation and the introduction of invasive species such as black wattle and eucalyptus radically changed the area around the gulch.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
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Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning red gulches, winding rivers and a moon-like landscape where a volcano with a caldera once 600 times larger than Mount St. Helens erupted, stands as the largest unprotected wilderness area in the American West.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 23 May 2024
The gulch and the forest around it became a bonfire pit waiting for a spark.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
But years of deforestation and the introduction of invasive species such as black wattle and eucalyptus radically changed the area around the gulch.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
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“Gulch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gulch. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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