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The Blue Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern United States, located largely in northeastern Oregon and stretching into extreme southeastern Washington.The range has an area of about 15,000 square miles (39,000 km 2), stretching east and southeast of Pendleton, Oregon, to the Snake River along the Oregon–Idaho border.
The Blue Mountains ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion ... low mountains surrounding the western perimeter of the Blue Mountains. Elevation varies from 1,200 to 5,500 ...
Top elevation: 450 m (1,480 ft) Base elevation: 230 m (750 ft) Skiable area: ... Blue Mountain is a ski resort located in The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada.
The Blue Mountains are popular for hiking and camping. The traditional Blue Mountain trek is a 7-mile (11 km) hike to the peak and consists of a 3,000-foot (910 m) increase in elevation. Jamaicans prefer to reach the peak at sunrise, thus the 3- to 4-hour hike is usually undertaken in darkness.
Ski Bluewood, formerly known as "Bluewood Ski Area," is an alpine ski area in the northwestern United States, in southeastern Washington in Columbia County.Located at the northern end of the Blue Mountains in the Umatilla National Forest, the elevation at the base area is 4,545 feet (1,385 m) above sea level, with a summit of 5,670 feet (1,728 m) for a vertical drop of 1,125 feet (343 m).
The Blue Mountains are a dissected plateau carved in sandstone bedrock. [41] They are now a series of ridge lines separated by gorges up to 760 metres (2,490 ft) deep. The highest point in the Blue Mountains, as it is now defined, is an unnamed point with an elevation of 1,189 m (3,901 ft) AHD, located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-east of Lithgow.
Blue Mountain Pass is a high mountain pass in Oregon, United States that is traversed by U.S. Highway 95. It gets its name from Blue Mountain (elevation 7435), which is just west of the pass. Blue Mountain and Blue Mountain Pass are located in south eastern Oregon, approximately 25 miles north of the Nevada border.
Blue Mountain in Moore Township in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania in February 2014. The ridge of Blue Mountain runs for 150 miles (240 km) through Pennsylvania, reaching an elevation of 2,270 feet (690 m) above sea level just north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, near the borough of Newburg. Most of the ridgecrest, however, only ...