Apr 26 2025
🏔️ Overview The Allegheny Mountains, often called the Alleghenies, form a major mountainous region of the central Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. Their long forested ridges extend through portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and western Virginia, creating some of the highest and most rugged terrain in the central Appalachians. The range is …
Apr 21 2025
The Chugach Mountains of Southcentral Alaska are known for steep, glacier-carved peaks, enormous icefields, deep fjords, and dramatic landscapes that rise almost directly from the sea. Yet the range is equally remarkable for its wildlife. Few mountain regions bring so many different habitats together in such a compact geographic area. Alpine tundra and rocky ridges …
Apr 20 2025
Haleakalā rises more than 10,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Watching the sun appear above the clouds from its high volcanic summit is one of the most memorable experiences in Haleakalā National Park—but it is also an outing that requires considerably more planning than simply driving up before dawn. …
Apr 17 2025
🏔️ Overview Banff National Park protects one of the most spectacular sections of the Canadian Rockies, where enormous limestone peaks rise above turquoise glacial lakes, forested valleys, alpine meadows, glaciers, and rushing mountain rivers. Established in 1885, Banff was Canada’s first national park and became the foundation of the country’s national park system. Today, the …
Apr 14 2025
Mount Marcy rises above the Adirondack High Peaks of northern New York as the highest mountain in New York State. Reaching approximately 5,344 feet (1,629 meters), it is not an exceptionally high mountain by North American standards, but its combination of rugged terrain, long approach, exposed summit, unpredictable weather, and extensive views makes it one …
Apr 14 2025
The Adirondack Mountains form one of the most distinctive mountain landscapes in the northeastern United States. Rising across northern New York, the Adirondacks contain rugged summits, vast forests, thousands of lakes and ponds, and some of the most challenging hiking terrain in the East. At the center of the range is the High Peaks region, …
Apr 07 2025
Wahzhazhe Summit 🏔️ Overview Wahzhazhe Summit is a forested high point in the Boston Mountains of northwestern Arkansas, within the larger Ozark Mountains. Located in Newton County inside the Ozark–St. Francis National Forest, the summit is notable not only for its elevation but also for its relatively recent official name and its connection to the …
Apr 07 2025
🏔️ Overview The Ozark Mountains, also known as the Ozarks, Ozark Highlands, or Ozark Plateaus, form one of the great highland regions of the central United States. Forested ridges, rocky bluffs, deep hollows, clear rivers, caves, springs, and rugged plateaus spread across much of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, with smaller portions extending into Oklahoma …
Mar 21 2025
Oklahoma may be best known for broad prairies, red-dirt country, and sweeping Great Plains horizons, but the state also contains a surprisingly diverse collection of mountains, forested ridges, rocky summits, mesas, and ancient uplands. From the granite peaks of the Wichita Mountains to the wooded ridges of the Ouachitas, Oklahoma’s mountain landscapes reveal several dramatically …
Jan 31 2025
Mount Macdonald 🏔️ Overview Mount Macdonald is a remote and exceptionally prominent mountain in northern Yukon, Canada, rising above the wild landscapes of the Peel Watershed. At 2,760 meters (9,055 feet), it is the highest summit of the Northwest Mackenzie Mountains and the high point of the Bonnet Plume Mountains. Although it is not among …
