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List of mountains of the Alleghenies facts for kids

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Yough Gorge
Laurel Hill in Ohiopyle State Park in Pennsylvania; the gorge is 1,700 ft, where the Youghiogheny River cuts through the mountains.
JudyRocks
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).
MonNatForest
Allegheny Mountains in the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia seen from the slopes of Back Allegheny Mountain looking east. Visible are Allegheny Mountain (middle distance) and Shenandoah Mountain (far distance).
Pavia vista
The Allegheny Front seen in the right of this photograph Blue Knob in Pennsylvania and its wintry valley below

This list of ridges and summits of the Allegheny Mountains identifies geographic elevations for about 500 miles (800 km) from north central Pennsylvania, through eastern West Virginia and western Maryland, to western Virginia in the United States.

The range of the Allegheny Mountains is part of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, a physiographic region of the much larger Appalachian Mountain Range.

From northeast to southwest, with ridges and summits of the Eastern Continental Divide in italics:


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