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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]
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. The Blue Ridge is part of the larger Appalachian Mountain Range.
The Smoky Mountain chain (as contrasted with the Blue Ridge) is more continuous, more elevated, more regular in its direction and height, and rises very uniformly from 5,000 to 6,621 feet (2,018.1 m). The Blue Ridge is composed of many fragments scarcely connected into a continuous and regular chain.
Blue Ridge Mountains: mountain: Union County and Lumpkin County, Georgia: 1,359 Blue Mountain: Pocono Mountains: mountain: Carbon County, Pennsylvania: 330 40°49′20″N 75°30′48″W: Blue Ridge Mountain: Blue Ridge Mountains: mountain: West Virginia and Virginia: 728
This list of peaks of the Blue Ridge in Virginia is listed starting from north to south. Blue Mountain. Loudoun Heights; Purcell Knob; Mount Weather; Paris Mountain; Brushy Mountain; Lost Mountain; Naked Mountain – Elevation 1,470 ft (450 m) High Knob
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty.The parkway, which is the longest linear park in the U.S., [3] runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Since 1946, The Blue Ridge Parkway has become the most frequently visited site within the national park system. In 2023, about 16.7 million people visited the parkway, about a million more than ...
South Mountain is the northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountain range into Maryland and Pennsylvania.From the Potomac River near Knoxville, Maryland in the south to Dillsburg, Pennsylvania in York County, Pennsylvania in the north, the 70-mile-long (110 km) range separates the Hagerstown and Cumberland valleys from the Piedmont regions of the two states.