Mount Craig
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,637 feet
- Description: mountain in Mount Mitchell State Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Also known as: “Balsam Cone”, “Black Brother”, “Black Brothers”, and “Mt. Craig”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Mitchell and Mount Mitchell Museum.
Mount Mitchell
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Pensacola Township, Yancey, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.77762° or 35° 46′ 39″ northLongitude
-82.26179° or 82° 15′ 42″ westElevation
6,637 feet (2,023 metres)Open location code
867VQPHQ+27OpenStreetMap ID
node 357809781OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Mount Craig” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Craig (bukid sa Estados Unidos, North Carolina)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Craig”
- Dutch: “Mount Craig”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت كرايج”
- French: “Mount Craig”
- German: “Mount Craig”
- German: “Mt. Craig”
- Ladin: “Mount Craig”
- Urdu: “ماؤنٹ کریگ”
- “Mount Craig”
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