Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Snowshoe Mountain is a ski resort in the eastern United States, located in Snowshoe, West Virginia. [2] The resort has skiable terrain across 244 acres (99 ha) and covers a total area of 11,000 acres (44.5 km 2) in the Allegheny Mountains, which are a part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range. It is positioned in the bowl shaped convergence ...
Snowshoe is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, centering on the Snowshoe Mountain ski resort. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains at a bowl shaped convergence of two high mountain ridges — Cheat and Back Allegheny Mountains — at the head of the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River.
Snow Shoe is a borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 765 at the 2010 census. According to tradition, Snow Shoe was so named when a pair of snowshoes were found at an Indian village near the present town site.
Bald Knob is one of only four mountain summits in West Virginia that rise above 4,800 feet (1,500 m), the other three being Spruce Knob, Thorny Flat, and an unnamed summit near Snowshoe, WV. The south face of Bald Knob is the site of the headwaters of Leatherbark Run, West Virginia's highest stream. Until 2001, Bald Knob was thought to be the ...
Comparison table of North American ski resorts. Resort name and website. Nearest city. State/province. Peak elevation (ft) Base elevation (ft) Vertical drop (ft) Skiable acreage. Total trails.
Cheat Mountain (Snowshoe Mountain) at Thorny Flat 4,848 ft (1,478 m) and Bald Knob 4,842 ft (1,476 m) are among the more notable peaks in West Virginia. The Blue Ridge Mountains, rising in southern Pennsylvania and there known as South Mountain, attain elevations of about 2,000 ft (600 m) in Pennsylvania.
View west along WV 66 at CR 9/3 (Snowshoe Drive) in Linwood. West Virginia Route 66 is an east–west state highway located within Pocahontas County, West Virginia.The route runs 16.1 miles (25.9 km) from U.S. Route 219 and West Virginia Route 55 near Snowshoe east to West Virginia Route 28 and West Virginia Route 92 south of Green Bank.
Snowshoe Canyon splits into an upper and lower canyon. The source of the upper canyon is near Talus Lake (9,670 feet (2,950 m)) while the south canyon is situated between Rolling Thunder Mountain to the north and Raynolds, Traverse and Bivouac Peaks to the south (9,600 feet (2,900 m)). Near the fork of north and south Snowshoe Canyon lies ...