Blue Ridge
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands range. The mountain range is located in the Eastern United States and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 6,568 feet
- Description: mountain range in the Eastern U.S.
- Also known as: “Blew Ledge”, “Blew Mountain”, “Blew Ridge”, “Blue Ledge”, “Blue Ridge Mountains”, “Blue Ridge of Mountains”, “Cawcasus”, “Occonachie”, “Taweasus”, “The Blue Ridge of the Alagany Mountains”, and “The Ledge”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Mitchell and Mount Mitchell Museum.
Mount Mitchell
Peak
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Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles northeast of Asheville.
Mount Craig
Peak
Mount Craig, 6,647 feet, is the second highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and second only to 6,684 feet Mount Mitchell in eastern mainland North America.
Blue Ridge
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Yancey, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Blue Ridge” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Arabic: “السلسة الزرقاء”
- Basque: “Blue Ridge mendiak”
- Bavarian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Belarusian: “Блакітны хрыбет”
- Belarusian: “Блу-Рыдж”
- Bulgarian: “Блу Ридж”
- Catalan: “muntanyes Blue Ridge”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Blue Ridge”
- Cebuano: “Blue Ridge”
- Cherokee: “ᏌᎪᏂᎨ ᏣᎴᎩ”
- Chinese: “藍嶺山脈”
- Czech: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Danish: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Dutch: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Egyptian Arabic: “السلسه الزرقا”
- Esperanto: “Blukresta Montaro”
- Estonian: “Blue Ridge”
- Finnish: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- French: “montagnes Bleues”
- French: “montagnes Blue Ridge”
- French: “Montagnes Blue Ridge”
- Georgian: “ცისფერი ქედი”
- German: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Hebrew: “בלו רידג‘”
- Hebrew: “הרי בלו רידג’”
- Italian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Italian: “Monti Blue Ridge”
- Japanese: “ブルーリッジ山脈”
- Korean: “블루리지산맥”
- Ladin: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Latin: “Montes Iugi Caerulei”
- Lithuanian: “Mėlynasis kalnagūbris”
- Macedonian: “Син Срт”
- Malayalam: “ബ്ലൂറിഡ്ജ് മലനിരകൾ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Norwegian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Persian: “کوهستان بلو ریج”
- Persian: “کوهستان بلو ریدج”
- Polish: “Pasmo Błękitne”
- Portuguese: “Montanhas Blue Ridge”
- Romanian: “Munții Blue Ridge”
- Russian: “Блу-Ридж”
- Russian: “Голубой хребет”
- Slovak: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Slovenian: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Slovenian: “Modre gore*”
- Spanish: “Cordillera Azul”
- Swedish: “Blue Ridge Mountains”
- Swedish: “Blue Ridge”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาบลูริดจ์”
- Turkish: “Blue Ridge Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Блакитний хребет”
- Venetian: “Monti Blue Ridge”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Eskota and Cattail Creek Community.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Mitchell State Park and Commissary Ridge.
North Carolina: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville, and Greensboro.
Curious Places to Discover
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