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The ridge passes near the cities of: Blairsville, Derry, Latrobe, Mt. Pleasant, Connellsville, and Uniontown in Pennsylvania; and Morgantown in West Virginia. [citation needed] Beartown Wilderness can be reached via Chestnut Ridge and is located to its north. [1] The Chestnut Ridge people take their name from this region.
The Laurel Highlands is a region in southwestern Pennsylvania made up of Fayette County, Somerset County, and Westmoreland County. [1] It has a population of about 600,000 people. The region is approximately fifty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh ; the Laurel Highlands center on Laurel Hill and Chestnut Ridge of the Allegheny Mountains .
This ridge is flanked by Negro Mountain to its east and Chestnut Ridge to its west. The mountain is home to six state parks: Laurel Ridge State Park, Laurel Mountain State Park, Linn Run State Park, Kooser State Park, Laurel Hill State Park, and Ohiopyle State Park. The 70-mile-long (110 km) Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail runs the length of the ...
The westernmost ridges are considered to be the Laurel Highlands and Chestnut Ridge in Pennsylvania, and Laurel Mountain and Rich Mountain in West Virginia. Big Stone Ridge marks the southern extent of the Alleghenies and is an outlier of Flat Top Mountain, with the Tug Fork river running along its western flank. [6]
Laurel Hill in Ohiopyle State Park in Pennsylvania; the gorge is 1,700 ft, where the Youghiogheny River cuts through the mountains. Spruce Mountain , visible behind Judy Rocks , in eastern West Virginia ; the summit of Spruce Mountain, Spruce Knob , is the highest point in the Alleghenies at 4,863 feet (1,482 meters).
Chestnut Ridge people, a Melungeon community residing near Philippi, West Virginia Chestnut Ridge (Laurel Highlands) , in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania Chestnut Ridge (Aberdeen, Maryland) , a home on the National Register of Historic Places
Chestnut Ridge (Laurel Highlands) J. Jacks Island (Pennsylvania) L. Laurel Hill (Pennsylvania) Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania; Y. Youngstown Ridge
At the summit of Laurel Hill, US 30 enters Somerset County and begins to descend the hill along the two-lane undivided Lincoln Highway, passing through a section of Laurel Ridge State Park where it crosses the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail. After descending the hill, the road runs east-southeast.