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Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee. At 6,593 ft (2,010 m) it is the third highest peak in the national park, behind Kuwohi (6,643 ft (2,025 m)) and Mount Guyot (6,621 ft (2,018 m)). It is also the highest peak that is completely within Tennessee.
Beyond the Chicago Basin area, trails in the wilderness see much less traffic and solitude can be found. The Continental Divide Trail (CDT) is a 3,100-mile (5,000 km) National Scenic Trail that stretches from Mexico to Canada and passes through the length of the Weminuche Wilderness.
Solitude Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in the Big Cottonwood Canyon of the Wasatch Mountains, thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. With 66 trails, [ 1 ] 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2 ) and 2,047 feet (624 m) vertical, Solitude is one of the smaller ski resorts near Salt Lake City, along with its neighbor Brighton .
Scenery and solitude are the main attractions of the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. Hunting is permitted. The best known and most accessible trail into the wilderness leads from Highway 152 at 8,228-foot (2,508 m) Emory Pass and goes five miles north to Hillsboro Peak which reaches an elevation of 10,011 feet (3,051 m).
The park lies within the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion, so there is a wide variety of plant life. [4] The park is home to: moose, deer, black bears, wolves, lynx, bobcats, martens and beavers along with over 20 species of reptiles and amphibians. Over 100 species of birds breed, nest or rest within park boundaries.
The reservation is centered on the 1,642 feet (500 m) subordinate summit of Peeskawso Peak. It is managed by The Trustees of Reservations , a non-profit conservation organization and is notable for its expansive views of the Housatonic River Valley , the Berkshires , the Taconic Mountains , and the Catskill Mountains of New York from the knife ...
Mount Tom, 1,202 feet (366 m), is a steep, rugged traprock mountain peak on the west bank of the Connecticut River 4.5 miles (7 km) northwest of downtown Holyoke, Massachusetts. The mountain is the southernmost and highest peak of the Mount Tom Range and the highest traprock peak of the 100-mile (160 km) long Metacomet Ridge .
The Mount Tom Range is a traprock mountain range located in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.It is a subrange of the Appalachians and part of the Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to nearly the Vermont border.