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The highway elevation at Blue Ridge Summit is 1,330 feet (410 m), compared to elevations of 500 and 700 feet (150 and 210 m) east and west of the mountain, respectively. Mount Dunlop, overlooking Blue Ridge Summit to the west, rises to a summit of 1,700 feet (520 m). Monterey Pass is northwest and slightly downhill from the community along PA 16.
Off Pennsylvania Route 16 near Blue Ridge Summit, Washington Township, Pennsylvania Coordinates 39°44′10″N 77°28′09″W / 39.73611°N 77.46917°W / 39.73611; -77
Raven Rock Mountain is adjacent to Jacks Mountain on the north while Miney Branch flows west-to-east between them in the Potomac River Watershed.The 1820 Waynesboro-Emmitsburg Turnpike with toll station for the 1787 crossroad was constructed between the mountains, where the Fight at Monterey Gap was conducted after the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (Stuart's artillery at Raven Rock Gap shelled ...
The saddle area lies near Happel's Meadow, [3] between Monterey Peak (1,663 ft) and Clermont Crag (1627 ft), in the South Mountain Range of the northern Blue Ridge Mountains System. Monterey Pass is located near Blue Ridge Summit and the historical Mason–Dixon line.
Blue Mountain, Blue Mountain Ridge, or the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania is a ridge of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania.Forming the southern and eastern edge of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians physiographic province in Pennsylvania, Blue Mountain extends 150 miles (240 km) from the Delaware Water Gap on the New Jersey border in the east to Big Gap in Franklin County in ...
South Mountain is the northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountain range into Maryland and Pennsylvania.From the Potomac River near Knoxville, Maryland in the south to Dillsburg, Pennsylvania in York County, Pennsylvania in the north, the 70-mile-long (110 km) range separates the Hagerstown and Cumberland valleys from the Piedmont regions of the two states.
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Detail of a French map of 1671. The Alleghenies are in the lower center portion. In 1669, John Lederer and members of his party became the first Europeans to crest the Blue Ridge Mountains and the first to see the Shenandoah Valley and the Allegheny Mountains beyond.