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  2. Blue Ridge Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. [1]

  3. Geography of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Relief map of North Carolina showing Blue Ridge Mountains (west), Piedmont Plateau (center), and the coastal plain (east), with Outer Banks along the Atlantic Ocean. 3D Topographical Map of North Carolina. The geography of North Carolina falls naturally into three divisions — the Appalachian Mountains in the west (including the Blue Ridge and ...

  4. Blue Ridge National Heritage Area - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area encompassing the twenty-five westernmost counties of North Carolina, which are associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains. The designation provides a framework for the promotion and interpretation of the area's cultural and historic character, and the ...

  5. Swannanoa Gap - Wikipedia

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    The Swannanoa Gap is a pass in the eastern United States through the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Asheville plateau. The pass sits on the Buncombe-McDowell County line in North Carolina near the head of the Catawba River. Long traversed by Native Americans, its trail was the first road into Buncombe County from the east.

  6. Unaka Range - Wikipedia

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    The Unaka Range is a mountain range on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. It is a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains and is part of the Blue Ridge Mountains physiographic province. The Unakas stretch approximately from the Nolichucky River in the south to the Watauga River in the north

  7. Western North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The counties most commonly associated with Western North Carolina. Many definitions will vary. Western North Carolina (often abbreviated as WNC) is the region of North Carolina which includes the Appalachian Mountains; it is often known geographically as the state's Mountain Region. It contains the highest mountains in the Eastern United States ...

  8. Black Mountains (North Carolina) - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Ridge Parkway passes along the range's southern section, and is connected to the summit of Mount Mitchell by North Carolina Highway 128. The Black Mountains are mostly located in Yancey County, although the range's southern and western extremes run along the Buncombe County line.

  9. List of mountains of the Blue Ridge - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Ridge Mountains as seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway near Mount Mitchell. The following is a list of mountains constituting the Blue Ridge , a mountain range stretching about 450 miles from Pennsylvania to Georgia in the USA.