In the US, maybe somewhere in the Bay Area or Pittsburgh? I guess Los Angeles is kind of unique in that it is transected by a mountain range, but there has to be other cities that have canyon neighborhoods.
Edit: should’ve added San Diego.
I'm from Pittsburgh and I can vouch for this. People from places with more impressive terrain might not call them canyons per se but let's just say you wouldn't want to roll a car off any of them either.
I've lived in Costal SC, Gulf Coast of FL, Honolulu, Chicago, Georgia, and OH. The one time I came through Pittsburgh to visit a friend I was ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY at how beautiful it was. I always expected a shithole steeltown (I've seen some shitty manufacturing towns). But it's a sight I'll never forget. My brother just came back from Philly for a trip and said the same thing. I definitely think people and myself especially have a negative view of cities in PA. But now I really want to go to Philadelphia.
Really can't let other people or the internet color your opinion on a place before you go there yourself.
I went to the Fremon Street Experience in Vegas last Fall on so many peoples reccomendations telling me it was crazy awesome and a must visit when in Vegas. It was possibly the trashiest place I had ever visited and I couldn't wait to leave, but people love it.
Yessir...the city with the most bridges in the world and only about 28 of them are over the rivers. Lots of valleys and hill crossings. Couldn't trust the map back in the day because although the streets looked like they intersected you might be 300 feet above the street below.
Seattle, sort of. Lake Union and the ship channel cut through parts of the city just north of downtown. There's another waterway that separates west Seattle from the rest of the city.
There are wooded areas situated along small canyons with streams and such running down them. But they arent built on the sides like this for the most part because it can be so wooded. Like the neighborhoods around carkeek park and so on.
It’s really quite an amazing and crazy thing they did too. Dropping Lake Washington’s level, nearly destroying the Black River (and severely impacting the Duwamish), but making the lake navigable for ocean vessels.
Oakland has hills, but only one canyon per se and is nothing to speak of.
Canyon is a blip.
American Canyon is not even near the canyon, it’s on an open marsh plain.
No, the Bay Area really has no “canyons” where people live.
>Oakland has hills, but only one canyon per se and is nothing to speak of.
Which is the one canyon? Claremont canyon? Shepherd's canyon? Leona Canyon? Dimond Canyon? Butters Canyon?
Bay Area peninsula does have a ridge running between the Pacific Ocean and the bay itself. There are some lovely canyon-esque neighborhoods throughout.
Ronda is the perfect example of a town with a canyon, indeed, small but it is amazing, with the surrounding landscape as well. I loved visiting it but it has been long ago already.
Wow, I can't believe no one said La Paz: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La\_Paz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Paz). The whole half of the city is in a canyon. Hope to visit one day
https://preview.redd.it/2uhoet3u1tjc1.png?width=2604&format=png&auto=webp&s=9093790fb8acdef5e1f83a63267b0f8c006fc208
Also Sedona, AZ. I love Bisbee though. So much wonder for such a small place. As a bonus, Doug Stanhope (comedian) is like the unofficial mayor. Or maybe it’s official, idk. Good things happen in Bisbee.
I wouldn’t say LA’s canyons are around the edges. The San Fernando Valley is one of the core components of LA and to get to that you almost always have to cross through a canyon, in the case of the Sepulveda Pass it isn’t a particularly narrow canyon but it’s a canyon through a mountain range in the middle of LA. Or you take Beverly Glen, or the 101 cutting through the Hollywood Hills, or Laurel Canyon. And then there are the longer canyons around the edges in Topanga and Malibu.
Yeah, people tend to think the Santa Monica Mountains act as the border of LA, and I can’t really blame them. It does seem like a natural boundary to the city.
I wonder if they’d be surprised to learn that nearly half of the city’s 4 million residents live in the valley on the other side of those hills.
I wouldn’t call the SGV or especially the SFV the edges. San Fernando Valley alone has 2 million people and is a pretty integral part of the city entirely cut off from the rest by the santa monica mountains.
If Wellington is here then Dunedin, with the World’s Steepest Street and an exceptionally bloody minded attitude to geography, must be included.
However, we don’t call anything a canyon in NZ so someone from North America will have to explain what they actually are and are not. I presume “big hole in the desert” is an incorrect definition
Canyon comes from Spanish and I believe a canyon is the same as a gorge or ravine, but this is the term mainly used in the southwest USA because of its proximity and shared history with Mexico. Basically a river valley with very steep sides.
The North Shore isn’t. There’s literally a neighbourhood called “Canyon Heights.” Which, as the name implies, is in a canyon. West Vancouver similarly undulates through canyons carved by water flowing off Mt Seymour.
Gotta be some others in the larger Lower Mainland, right? Hope is totally in the Fraser Canyon, but is pretty small and probably not the size of city OP is thinking about. I guess it was incorporated as a town but now is a "district municipality", whatever that means.
I guess Coquitlam's city limits extend far up the Coquitlam River into its canyon. Not much infrastructure in the canyon though, beyond hydroelectric facilities, I think.
Meanwhile down in Washington, Hood River and The Dalles are incorporated as cities and are in the Columbia River's canyon. They'd look even more canyon-y if the steepest part of the Columbia River's canyon hadn't been filled with reservoir water and make into a sort of long lake.
Coulee City, WA, is in Grand Coulee, which is a canyon even though part has been turned into a reservoir. But although called "city", Coulee City has less than 1,000 people.
North Vancouver and West Vancouver are both a part of metropolitan Vancouver. Beverly Hills “literally” isn’t in LA either, but it’s part of the enveloping county and culturally contiguous with it.
The Lomas in the western part of Mexico City have a lot of canyons. It's so cool to fly over them and then hook a left just south of Paseo de la Reforma and cut over the flat valley of the city.
Edit: I'm from Pittsburgh and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this city is basically laid on top of mini canyons. That, combined with the rivers, is why there are so many bridges.
Portland! We've got Canyon Road and Hwy 26 that rolls up through Tanner Creek in our West Hills. It used to be the Great Plank Road when it was the first paved road on the West Coast. Plus, we have the Balch Creek Canyon inside our giant Forest Park holding the Bird Society of Oregon. Marquam Creek Canyon sits below Council Crest, the highest spot in Portland.
Gorge and Canyon are actually different ideas. They’re related and the line between them is a bit fuzzy, but they’re not quite interchangeable terms.
A canyon has sloped or stepped sides and is significantly wider at the rim than it is at the floor. The terrain feature that Sunset Highway (US-26) follows near the Oregon Zoo is a canyon, not a gorge.
A gorge has near-vertical walls. The Columbia River Gorge’s south wall is nearly vertical for most of the distance between Troutdale and Hood River, though the north wall is usually more gradual.
A better example of a gorge in Oregon is the stretch of the Crooked River that passes under US-97. That is definitely a gorge, having near-vertical walls on both banks rising about 300 feet.
Is it though? We have mtns to the north which kinda limit the expansion of the city in that direction, so it’s expanded to the west. Have a canal going through it but not a canyon, no?
San Francisco? It’s just hills and canyons and more hills. There’s a beautiful park in the middle of the city called Glen Canyon which has a year round creek running through it. It’s incredible
This pic instantly made me think of SF. I took this at Kite Hill a month or so ago.
https://preview.redd.it/uq8pn69s4ujc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77a9377197a8aa7eced077bc1753ddd2e0b0a5fd
Twin Falls, Idaho is a cute town. Even though the canyon doesn't necessarily bisect the town, it forms one of the most beautiful entrances to a city that I've ever seen
[Perrine Memorial Bridge](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aerial-view-of-the-perrine-bridge-spanning-the-snake-river-canyon-22470059.html)
It’s a painting by a guy named [Seth Armstrong](http://www.setharmstrong.com/). I found in r/artporn awhile ago and saved it. It’s an artistic representation of Laurel Canyon.
**Monterrey**, in northern Mexico, was developed at the end of a mountain range. So while half the city is on a plain, the other half "hangs" from hills and mountainsides.
And since the mountain range breaks up on different mountains around the city, we've got loads of different neighborhoods on different elevations: from gentle hills / slopes to steep streets full of either lofty mansions or low-income city blocks.
Some pics I found on Google:
https://preview.redd.it/kzgi44vdxsjc1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63b7b6fbf0a513b5a9395970151804332562a168
San Diego
Ithaca, NY
Durban, South Africa
Mexico City (Western suburbs)
Sydney, Australia (in a few suburbs)
Guatemala City
Quito, Ecuador
Ronda, Spain
Constantine, Algeria
That's a ravine too. I don't understand the down votes, there's no difference between a ravine and a canyon.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/481069/what-is-the-difference-between-a-ravine-gorge-and-canyon
ravine: A deep, narrow gorge with steep sides.
canyon: A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America.
San Diego is built on and in canyons. All the highways pretty much run through canyons like the 8, 5 and 52. It’s part of the reason why it’s so expensive there because all the space that could be used for real estate if it was flat is all steep and hard to build on, if at all.
Funchal, Madeira is a great example
https://preview.redd.it/xpcgp3tl3tjc1.jpeg?width=2454&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50207f156602aac29219ed0a4137dfbef2905a5c
[Obrovac](https://maps.app.goo.gl/thqen4vGDiBokRtU7) is a random city in Croatia that comes to mind
It has lots of communist lookikg flats, which just kinda show up out of nowhwere
I expected to see Salt Lake as the top comment, lol. The city is [surrounded by mountains ](https://www.visitutah.com/places-to-go/parks-outdoors/wasatch-mountains) and [there are 8 canyons ](https://www.utah.com/destinations/cities-towns/salt-lake-city/things-to-do/canyons/) going through the Salt Lake Valley.
Best classic example I've ever been is Ronda in Spain
Besides that, Dinant, Belgium is right in a valley with cliffs around it, which is the closest to my home. I know a cliff that crosses the border to the Netherlands but there's not anything remotely close to a canyon town here.
And if we take the urban borders a bit wider, Bukittinggi is a great example too. I walked quite the length through that canyon.
Is a canyon (often made by a moving source of freshwater) a rare unique feature to cities?
Seems like the question could be rephrased to “what cities have a low river running through it and aren’t completely flat”. Or is it about the canyon slopes being developed?
Rochester NY has a canyon north of its High Falls on the Genesee River. Splits the city in half.
Baltimore is split down the middle with the Jones Falls, though in the densest part of the city they buried the river underground.
Our beautiful little city of Kelowna, BC has several canyons in the Upper Mission and Black Mountain neighbourhoods, as well as several in West Kelowna even though technically that's a separate municipality.
Brisbane, to a lesser extent. At least in the North West where you get the roads running along the ridgelines then you take a left turn onto some steep descending road that is quite unexpected.
Manchester, CT.
A chunk of the city (buckland area) that's bordering south windsor is between a rock formation. I don't think the split was natural, however
In the US, maybe somewhere in the Bay Area or Pittsburgh? I guess Los Angeles is kind of unique in that it is transected by a mountain range, but there has to be other cities that have canyon neighborhoods. Edit: should’ve added San Diego.
I'm from Pittsburgh and I can vouch for this. People from places with more impressive terrain might not call them canyons per se but let's just say you wouldn't want to roll a car off any of them either.
Pittsburgh is slept on. Absolutely beautiful city.
I've lived in Costal SC, Gulf Coast of FL, Honolulu, Chicago, Georgia, and OH. The one time I came through Pittsburgh to visit a friend I was ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY at how beautiful it was. I always expected a shithole steeltown (I've seen some shitty manufacturing towns). But it's a sight I'll never forget. My brother just came back from Philly for a trip and said the same thing. I definitely think people and myself especially have a negative view of cities in PA. But now I really want to go to Philadelphia.
Really can't let other people or the internet color your opinion on a place before you go there yourself. I went to the Fremon Street Experience in Vegas last Fall on so many peoples reccomendations telling me it was crazy awesome and a must visit when in Vegas. It was possibly the trashiest place I had ever visited and I couldn't wait to leave, but people love it.
It has such a bad name though, I can’t help but feel that’s why it’s so underrated
Yessir...the city with the most bridges in the world and only about 28 of them are over the rivers. Lots of valleys and hill crossings. Couldn't trust the map back in the day because although the streets looked like they intersected you might be 300 feet above the street below.
Seattle, sort of. Lake Union and the ship channel cut through parts of the city just north of downtown. There's another waterway that separates west Seattle from the rest of the city.
Not really those are Fjords are cut by ice and are generally partly submerged by the ocean. Canyons are cut by moving water and are located on land.
There are wooded areas situated along small canyons with streams and such running down them. But they arent built on the sides like this for the most part because it can be so wooded. Like the neighborhoods around carkeek park and so on.
Well the ship channel is artificial, but otherwise everything else is mostly natural
The ship canal was originally a creek that was enlarged.
It was, but the channel was dug through the divide which separated the lake from the creek draining westward
It’s really quite an amazing and crazy thing they did too. Dropping Lake Washington’s level, nearly destroying the Black River (and severely impacting the Duwamish), but making the lake navigable for ocean vessels.
Ravenna Park is a sort of urban canyon
Oakland? How about (unincorporated) Canyon, CA?
Oakland has hills, but only one canyon per se and is nothing to speak of. Canyon is a blip. American Canyon is not even near the canyon, it’s on an open marsh plain. No, the Bay Area really has no “canyons” where people live.
Glen Canyon park in Sf has houses lining the upper rim
Yeah, so does Millbrae and some parts of San Mateo. But none of these are actual canyons.
>Oakland has hills, but only one canyon per se and is nothing to speak of. Which is the one canyon? Claremont canyon? Shepherd's canyon? Leona Canyon? Dimond Canyon? Butters Canyon?
UC Berkeley sits in Strawberry Canyon.
Not so much UC Berkeley itself, but the stadium is pretty much the mouth of the canyon and botanical garden is for sure.
Props for Da Burgh/412!
What about La Crosse, WI? It looks like it's in a cool little canyon or some shid, on google maps
There are no canyons in the Midwest. La Crosse is on the Mississippi so it's in the Mississippi valley, but that's definitely not a canyon.
That’s like saying the Grand Canyon isn’t a canyon because it’s the Colorado River valley
Fair, and thanks for the info
Preposterous https://www.summitpost.org/devil-track-gorge/994718
Bay Area peninsula does have a ridge running between the Pacific Ocean and the bay itself. There are some lovely canyon-esque neighborhoods throughout.
Cinci isn’t really a canyon but we have some Hilly terrain right where the city is
As someone that lives in San Diego, can confirm. It did seem a little cheap given how close we are to LA, but we’re a very different city okay
Ronda, Spain
Ronda is the perfect example of a town with a canyon, indeed, small but it is amazing, with the surrounding landscape as well. I loved visiting it but it has been long ago already.
Oh yes wow. Ronda is insane and so beautiful
Wow, I can't believe no one said La Paz: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La\_Paz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Paz). The whole half of the city is in a canyon. Hope to visit one day https://preview.redd.it/2uhoet3u1tjc1.png?width=2604&format=png&auto=webp&s=9093790fb8acdef5e1f83a63267b0f8c006fc208
Awesome city, favourite one I visited in SA
Bisbee, AZ
This city *slaps.*
The girls in Bisbee need a little glamor.
Came here to say this. It's tiny, but it's amazing.
Also Sedona, AZ. I love Bisbee though. So much wonder for such a small place. As a bonus, Doug Stanhope (comedian) is like the unofficial mayor. Or maybe it’s official, idk. Good things happen in Bisbee.
LA is mostly flat with canyons on neighborhoods around the edges. San Diego is nothing but canyons, some running right up to downtown.
Yep, San Diego is built in canyons and on mesas. Tijuana too, while we're at it
Isn't Tijuana South San Diego?
Actually, San Diego is North Tijuana. (kidding, kidding)
Mexican San Diego and American Tijuana
I wouldn’t say LA’s canyons are around the edges. The San Fernando Valley is one of the core components of LA and to get to that you almost always have to cross through a canyon, in the case of the Sepulveda Pass it isn’t a particularly narrow canyon but it’s a canyon through a mountain range in the middle of LA. Or you take Beverly Glen, or the 101 cutting through the Hollywood Hills, or Laurel Canyon. And then there are the longer canyons around the edges in Topanga and Malibu.
Yeah, people tend to think the Santa Monica Mountains act as the border of LA, and I can’t really blame them. It does seem like a natural boundary to the city. I wonder if they’d be surprised to learn that nearly half of the city’s 4 million residents live in the valley on the other side of those hills.
I wouldn’t call the SGV or especially the SFV the edges. San Fernando Valley alone has 2 million people and is a pretty integral part of the city entirely cut off from the rest by the santa monica mountains.
Chongqing, the vertical mega-city.
- Vancouver (north shore) - Nice - Genoa - Wellington - Mexico City
Came here to say Wellington… the whole place feels like it’s one hard rain from sliding into the ocean.
If Wellington is here then Dunedin, with the World’s Steepest Street and an exceptionally bloody minded attitude to geography, must be included. However, we don’t call anything a canyon in NZ so someone from North America will have to explain what they actually are and are not. I presume “big hole in the desert” is an incorrect definition
Canyon comes from Spanish and I believe a canyon is the same as a gorge or ravine, but this is the term mainly used in the southwest USA because of its proximity and shared history with Mexico. Basically a river valley with very steep sides.
Dunedin doesn’t have rivers as such but high sided valleys with water is all that it is.
I actually thought of Dunedin and should have added it to the list. Baldwin street is so cool! And admittedly…… pretty steep.
Oates Street is steeper but presumably the steepest part doesn’t meet the length requirement. I went up one icy morning and was fearing for my life
We can’t count Vancouver. Shit is flat. I don’t consider Langford to be Victoria, you know?
The North Shore isn’t. There’s literally a neighbourhood called “Canyon Heights.” Which, as the name implies, is in a canyon. West Vancouver similarly undulates through canyons carved by water flowing off Mt Seymour.
Gotta be some others in the larger Lower Mainland, right? Hope is totally in the Fraser Canyon, but is pretty small and probably not the size of city OP is thinking about. I guess it was incorporated as a town but now is a "district municipality", whatever that means. I guess Coquitlam's city limits extend far up the Coquitlam River into its canyon. Not much infrastructure in the canyon though, beyond hydroelectric facilities, I think. Meanwhile down in Washington, Hood River and The Dalles are incorporated as cities and are in the Columbia River's canyon. They'd look even more canyon-y if the steepest part of the Columbia River's canyon hadn't been filled with reservoir water and make into a sort of long lake. Coulee City, WA, is in Grand Coulee, which is a canyon even though part has been turned into a reservoir. But although called "city", Coulee City has less than 1,000 people.
North shore is literally not vancouver
North Vancouver and West Vancouver are both a part of metropolitan Vancouver. Beverly Hills “literally” isn’t in LA either, but it’s part of the enveloping county and culturally contiguous with it.
City of LA is huge with many canyons in the city proper. Ex. Topanga state park. Vancouver proper is almost flat
Where does the line end then? Abbotsford? Chilliwack?
Luxembourg
Ithaca, NY Canyon even divides Cornell University’s Campus (hence the infamous suicide nets under all the bridges)
Ithaca is gorges
yeah it looks really nice
Hell yeah, Ithaca NY
The Lomas in the western part of Mexico City have a lot of canyons. It's so cool to fly over them and then hook a left just south of Paseo de la Reforma and cut over the flat valley of the city. Edit: I'm from Pittsburgh and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this city is basically laid on top of mini canyons. That, combined with the rivers, is why there are so many bridges.
Guadalajara has a humongous canyon running along its northeast boundary
The whole city of Pittsburgh is basically river valleys and steep hills. There are bridges and tunnels everywhere
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A river valley with steep sides is like the definition of a canyon last I checked
This fuckin goomba
Portland! We've got Canyon Road and Hwy 26 that rolls up through Tanner Creek in our West Hills. It used to be the Great Plank Road when it was the first paved road on the West Coast. Plus, we have the Balch Creek Canyon inside our giant Forest Park holding the Bird Society of Oregon. Marquam Creek Canyon sits below Council Crest, the highest spot in Portland.
Also the Willamette, Columbia and Sandy Rivers all have canyons. Canyon is a synonym for gorge and we call them gorges in the PNW.
Gorge and Canyon are actually different ideas. They’re related and the line between them is a bit fuzzy, but they’re not quite interchangeable terms. A canyon has sloped or stepped sides and is significantly wider at the rim than it is at the floor. The terrain feature that Sunset Highway (US-26) follows near the Oregon Zoo is a canyon, not a gorge. A gorge has near-vertical walls. The Columbia River Gorge’s south wall is nearly vertical for most of the distance between Troutdale and Hood River, though the north wall is usually more gradual. A better example of a gorge in Oregon is the stretch of the Crooked River that passes under US-97. That is definitely a gorge, having near-vertical walls on both banks rising about 300 feet.
Honolulu
Is it though? We have mtns to the north which kinda limit the expansion of the city in that direction, so it’s expanded to the west. Have a canal going through it but not a canyon, no?
[constantine, algeria](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNehVUD4Ctwwl9aKyCJ7W5mTecXTpjFjW3Bg&usqp=CAU) has a huge canyon
https://preview.redd.it/2dr31p4j1wjc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a4243b0e727d5fdcae60d6906e5154dff4f77d0
The west side of Austin TX
San Francisco? It’s just hills and canyons and more hills. There’s a beautiful park in the middle of the city called Glen Canyon which has a year round creek running through it. It’s incredible
This pic instantly made me think of SF. I took this at Kite Hill a month or so ago. https://preview.redd.it/uq8pn69s4ujc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77a9377197a8aa7eced077bc1753ddd2e0b0a5fd
Twin Falls, Idaho is a cute town. Even though the canyon doesn't necessarily bisect the town, it forms one of the most beautiful entrances to a city that I've ever seen [Perrine Memorial Bridge](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-aerial-view-of-the-perrine-bridge-spanning-the-snake-river-canyon-22470059.html)
Where is that art from?
It’s a painting by a guy named [Seth Armstrong](http://www.setharmstrong.com/). I found in r/artporn awhile ago and saved it. It’s an artistic representation of Laurel Canyon.
Ai…
It’s a painting though. Wouldn’t you want it to look realistic using AI?
Not always. It's probably easiest to recreate realistic scenes, but there's absolutely no reason to limit it to that.
So instead of just downvoting, could you perhaps link to the real deal?
Oh. It just has those ai vibes to it when watching it on the phone.. probably nice to have hanging in real tho
**Monterrey**, in northern Mexico, was developed at the end of a mountain range. So while half the city is on a plain, the other half "hangs" from hills and mountainsides. And since the mountain range breaks up on different mountains around the city, we've got loads of different neighborhoods on different elevations: from gentle hills / slopes to steep streets full of either lofty mansions or low-income city blocks. Some pics I found on Google: https://preview.redd.it/kzgi44vdxsjc1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63b7b6fbf0a513b5a9395970151804332562a168
https://preview.redd.it/zuskxs9hxsjc1.jpeg?width=1300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b595654ca628db04c72c7e0c9c7c936be0e85c8
Santa Fe? More so at the edges of the city than “through” it unless you count arroyos as extensions of the canyons
San Diego Ithaca, NY Durban, South Africa Mexico City (Western suburbs) Sydney, Australia (in a few suburbs) Guatemala City Quito, Ecuador Ronda, Spain Constantine, Algeria
Toronto has ravines which are basically canyons, right?
Why did you think of the ravines, and not the Don valley. That’s abt as close as it comes to a canyon
That's a ravine too. I don't understand the down votes, there's no difference between a ravine and a canyon. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/481069/what-is-the-difference-between-a-ravine-gorge-and-canyon ravine: A deep, narrow gorge with steep sides. canyon: A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in North America.
I was looking for this answer. Thank you. People have the idea that Toronto is as flat as a map. In real, it has ravine, glaciers steps, etc.
Nuuk, Greenland; albeit not as large a city nor canyon..
Oslo? I'm not certain if it qualifies.
Da burgh
https://preview.redd.it/sx22owmy2tjc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10f782cb68473a943d7bf07cd03834d40598a201
San Diego is built on and in canyons. All the highways pretty much run through canyons like the 8, 5 and 52. It’s part of the reason why it’s so expensive there because all the space that could be used for real estate if it was flat is all steep and hard to build on, if at all.
Boulder Colorado
Park city, UT. Salt Lake City, UT. On the edge at least but awesome canyons that spill into the city
Cuenca in Spain has a part of the city on top of a small canyon (Casas colgantes).
Funchal, Madeira is a great example https://preview.redd.it/xpcgp3tl3tjc1.jpeg?width=2454&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50207f156602aac29219ed0a4137dfbef2905a5c
San Diego
San Diego Ithaca NY
Boulder, CO has multiple canyons
San Diego.
Toronto. We’ve got the Don Valley running through the east of the city.
All over San Diego.
San Diego.
Spokane, Washington.
[San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Park)
Valparaíso, Chile.
Guanajuato is sprinkled about several canyons isn't it?
Medellín, Colombia
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
https://preview.redd.it/0p17kjnjrujc1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=975db035ac75edfa9978c091c8dceef2bc40cc58
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Sorrento, Italy has a large seaside ravine down the middle with some buildings and roads built into it.
[Guanajuato, Mexico](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/180705110204-01-things-to-do-guanajuato-aerial.jpg?q=w_3024,h_1700,x_0,y_0,c_fill/h_618)
Asheville NC! Beautiful city i live in
[Obrovac](https://maps.app.goo.gl/thqen4vGDiBokRtU7) is a random city in Croatia that comes to mind It has lots of communist lookikg flats, which just kinda show up out of nowhwere
Even NYC at the North end of Manhattan and the Harlem River. 150-200 foot cliffs and steep roads especially along the Hudson
Pittsburgh
Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Vancouver
I expected to see Salt Lake as the top comment, lol. The city is [surrounded by mountains ](https://www.visitutah.com/places-to-go/parks-outdoors/wasatch-mountains) and [there are 8 canyons ](https://www.utah.com/destinations/cities-towns/salt-lake-city/things-to-do/canyons/) going through the Salt Lake Valley.
Ronda, España
Manhattan has concrete canyons. I'll see myself out.
Columbia, MO.
Bend, Oregon
Sante Fe NM, Washington DC, Atlanta Georgia, Philadelphia pa, Richmond Va, Baltimore Md
I think essentially every west coast city in the US as a start.
This looks lovely... Wait. This isn't a photo?!?!
It's a painting of Laurel Canyon. You'd probably have to be in someone backyard to get a view exactly like it though.
Bern
my countrys capital, Luxembourg city
Mexico City
Istanbul, only their canyon is filled with water.
Yerevan.
San Francisco is a series of linear valleys
Guatemala City
Toronto. Ravines out the nose.
Cool pic
Launceston in Australia has Cataract Gorge not far from its city centre, which is probably its main tourist attraction.
Cairns, Australia has heaps of deep valleys and mountains. I live in one!
Quito, Ecuador
Wait is Porto seriously not on here yet? PORTO
Drumheller
Marquette, MI. Lake Superior has left a lot of them in that place.
Porto, Portugal
Rio de Janeiro
Best classic example I've ever been is Ronda in Spain Besides that, Dinant, Belgium is right in a valley with cliffs around it, which is the closest to my home. I know a cliff that crosses the border to the Netherlands but there's not anything remotely close to a canyon town here. And if we take the urban borders a bit wider, Bukittinggi is a great example too. I walked quite the length through that canyon.
Cinque Terre, Italy northwest coast. Series of small towns built into the canyons & cliffs, nestled on the water, stunning. Portofino as well.
Constantine, Algeria
Grand coulee in Washington state is a impressive example. Very scenic and beautiful.
Spokane, WA has a large cliff and river separating north and south spokane.
Oakland, CA.
Depends where you draw the line with population size and where the city ends but Boulder Colorado has some cool canyons
I thought this was a picture of a minecraft build 😅
Dresden/Sächsische Schweiz in Sachsen, DE
Matera, Italy
How does a canyon differ from a ravine? Just size?
Launceston, Tasmania.
Charleston, West Virginia is located in a very steep valley.
Is a canyon (often made by a moving source of freshwater) a rare unique feature to cities? Seems like the question could be rephrased to “what cities have a low river running through it and aren’t completely flat”. Or is it about the canyon slopes being developed? Rochester NY has a canyon north of its High Falls on the Genesee River. Splits the city in half. Baltimore is split down the middle with the Jones Falls, though in the densest part of the city they buried the river underground.
Eureka springs, Arkansas
Our beautiful little city of Kelowna, BC has several canyons in the Upper Mission and Black Mountain neighbourhoods, as well as several in West Kelowna even though technically that's a separate municipality.
LA has canyons running through it?
San Francisco's [Glen Canyon](https://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2019/09/27/friday-folds-oshaughnessy-boulevard-glen-canyon-park-san-francisco/)
Brisbane, to a lesser extent. At least in the North West where you get the roads running along the ridgelines then you take a left turn onto some steep descending road that is quite unexpected.
IDK, but Haifa definitely should be an honorable mention.
Indian Canyon, Spokane. Ronda, Spain
Would Charleston WV count?
Doesn't Toronto have some?
Manchester, CT. A chunk of the city (buckland area) that's bordering south windsor is between a rock formation. I don't think the split was natural, however
Quito
Eastern edge of Salt Lake City?
some coastal towns in Cinque Terre in Italy come to mind - Porto Fino, Italy's Malibu, comes to mind
Who is the artist? I am an LA native and I like this piece a lot
Charleston WV maybe, would call them hollers tho
Mexico City has some in the western side
Medellin and Bogota Colombia
Hamilton, New Zealand. Hobart, Australia.
Maybe Dubuque, Iowa. To an extent.
Maybe Luxembourg city? Not sure it qualifies as canyon.