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This list of Virginia Blue Ridge gaps is listed starting from north to south.. Potomac Water Gap, elevation 240 feet, Harpers Ferry, on U.S. Route 340; Keyes Gap, originally Vestal's Gap, elevation 895 feet, on Virginia State Route 9 in Loudoun County
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
Naked Mountain – Elevation 1,470 ft (450 m) High Knob Little Cobbler Mountain (North Cobbler Mountain) – Elevation 1,447 ft (441 m) 38°52′05″N 77°56′41″W / 38.8680°N 77.9448°W / 38.8680; -77.9448 ( Little Cobbler Mountain (North Cobbler Mountain
English: A map of the Cumberland Gap. The gap is shown in red letters while the mountains are colored brown. The gap is shown in red letters while the mountains are colored brown. Cities and towns are shown in grey text
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Woods and his family crossed the Blue Ridge using what is today known as Jarman Gap, and settled on a 2,006-acre plot registered in 1737 called "Mountain Plains" on the eastern slope of the gap. This gap became known as Woods' Gap after the family, and was renamed as Jarman Gap around 1800, when Thomas Jarman bought the property. [3]
The present identified location of Maggoty Gap (or Willow Branch Gap) on topographic maps is at 37.156°N 79.972°W, which is actually inside the Back Creek watershed, not at the ridge line. [1] But State Road 677 does pass through it (under a railroad trestle) to the highway (US-220) leading to the true ridge line at "Murray Gap", which ...