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3684 / 1123. Flat Top Mountain. 3560 / 1085. Highest elevation achieved at Huff Knob. Castle Mountain (Pendleton) 3410 / 1039. There are two Castle Mountains in West Virginia. Crumpler Mountain (McDowell County, West Virginia) 3377 / 1020.
Many landforms in West Virginia that are named 'mountain' are actually ridges and are categorized as such; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountains of West Virginia; See also categories Mountain ranges of West Virginia, Ridges of West Virginia
The Allegheny Mountains have a northeast–southwest orientation, running for about 300 miles (480 km) from north-central Pennsylvania southward, through western Maryland and eastern West Virginia. The Alleghenies comprise the rugged western-central portion of the Appalachians. They rise to approximately 4,862 feet (1,482 m) in northeastern ...
Town Hill. Categories: Mountain ranges of the United States by state. Landforms of West Virginia. Subranges of the Appalachian Mountains.
Geologic Map of West Virginia. West Virginia's geologic history stretches back into the Precambrian, and includes several periods of mountain building and erosion. At times, much of what is now West Virginia was covered by swamps, marshlands, and shallow seas, accounting for the wide variety of sedimentary rocks found in the state, as well as its wealth of coal and natural gas deposits.
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).
In 2014, hikers in New Jersey began sharing photos and videos of another bi-pedal bear who came to be known as “Pedals.” Unlike his brethren in West Virginia, Pedals was unable to walk on all ...
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the ...