Mountain Ranges
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 25 2025
🏔️ Overview The Swiss Alps form the mountainous heart of Switzerland and include some of the highest, most recognizable, and most heavily glaciated landscapes in Europe. Sharp rock pyramids, enormous glacier systems, high mountain passes, green valleys, alpine meadows, and deep river gorges create a remarkably varied landscape within a relatively small country. The Swiss …
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 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
🏔️ 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 …
Apr 07 2025
🏔️ Overview The Făgăraș Mountains are the highest mountain range in Romania and one of the most dramatic sections of the Southern Carpathians. Stretching across central Romania, the range is defined by long alpine ridges, deep glacial valleys, steep rock faces, high mountain lakes, dense forests, and many of the country’s loftiest summits. At their …
Apr 07 2025
The Cordillera Occidental of Bolivia, or Western Cordillera, forms the dramatic volcanic western edge of the Bolivian Andes. Rising above the Altiplano near the border with Chile, this high, dry mountain region contains enormous stratovolcanoes, lava fields, salt basins, geothermal features, wetlands, and some of the most remote landscapes in South America. Its greatest summit …
Apr 05 2025
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera de Talamanca, or Talamanca Range, is the great mountain backbone of southern Costa Rica and far western Panama. Rising from tropical forests to cold, windswept páramo, the range contains some of the highest terrain in Central America and protects one of the region’s most biologically important wilderness areas. Its highest point …
Apr 04 2025
🏔️ Overview The Alborz Mountains, also spelled Alburz, Elburz, or Elborz, form the great mountain barrier of northern Iran. Rising between the humid lowlands along the Caspian Sea and the much drier Iranian Plateau, the range has an enormous influence on the geography, climate, ecology, and human settlement of northern Iran. The highest point is …
Apr 03 2025
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Neovolcánica is one of Mexico’s most important and spectacular mountain regions. Also known as the Eje Neovolcánico, Eje Volcánico Transversal, or Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, it forms a broad band of volcanic mountains stretching roughly east to west across central Mexico. Unlike the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental, which generally …
