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Blue Mountain in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania Bald Eagle State Forest in Union County, Pennsylvania. In its northern section, the Great Valley includes the Champlain Valley around Lake Champlain and the upper Richelieu River that drains it into the Saint Lawrence, the Hudson River Valley, Newburgh Valley, and Wallkill Valley, and the Kittatinny Valley, Upper Delaware River ...
The Teton Mountain Range in Wyoming, a subset of the Rocky Mountains Map of the Rocky Mountains of western North America. The Mountain states (also known as the Mountain West or the Interior West) form one of the nine geographic divisions of the United States that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.
[a] [6] The highest peak of the mountain range is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina at 6,684 feet (2,037 m), which is also the highest point in the United States east of the Mississippi River. The range is older than the other major mountain range in North America, the Rocky Mountains of the west.
The Central Valley covers an area of approximately 22,500 square miles (58,000 km 2), making it slightly smaller than the state of West Virginia and about 13.7% of California's total area. The Central Valley is 40 to 60 miles (60 to 100 km) wide, with the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges to the west.
West Beckwith Mountain 12,185' West Buffalo Peak 13,332' West Elk Peak 13,042' – highest summit of the West Elk Mountains; West Spanish Peak 13,631' – highest summit of the Spanish Peaks; Wetterhorn Peak 14,021' Wheeler Mountain 13,690' Whetstone Mountain 12,527' Whitecross Mountain 13,553' Whitehouse Mountain 13,492' Wildhorse Peak 13,266 ...
Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Nearby Hot Springs hogs much of the press when it comes to the Natural State's quaint little mountain towns, but Eureka Springs is just as cute with fewer crowds (and a ...
The intermountain states are generally considered to be Nevada, Utah, Idaho, the western third of Montana, Arizona north of the Mogollon Rim, Colorado from the Front Range westward, New Mexico from the central mountain chain westward, California east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges, and Far West Texas from the Pecos River westward. [2]
The Santa Fe Mountains at the southern end of the Rockies as seen from the Sandia Crest in New Mexico The summits of the Teton Range in Wyoming. The name of the mountains is a calque of an Algonquian name, specifically Plains Cree ᐊᓯᓃᐘᒋᐩ asinîwaciy (originally transcribed as-sin-wati), literally "rocky mountain / alp".