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Maryland Heights (1,460 ft.) Elk Ridge Summit (1,476 ft.) Foot Hills. Red Hill (1,020 ft) Hawks Hill (930 ft) Monadnocks ... List of mountains in Maryland.
Western Maryland, also known as the Maryland panhandle or Mountain Maryland, [1] is the portion of the U.S. state of Maryland that typically consists of Frederick, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties.
South Mountain State Park is a public recreation area that runs for nearly the entire length of South Mountain through Washington and Frederick counties in Maryland. [3] The state park is contiguous with several other national, state and local parks on the mountain, including the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Gathland State Park, Washington Monument State Park, Greenbrier ...
Hoye-Crest is a summit along Backbone Mountain just inside of Garrett County, Maryland. It is the highest natural point in Maryland at an elevation of 3,360 feet (1,020 m). [3] The location, named for Captain Charles E. Hoye (1876–1951), founder of the Garrett County Historical Society, offers a view of the North Branch Potomac River valley ...
Sideling Hill, also Side Long Hill, [1] is a long, steep, narrow mountain ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley (or Allegheny Mountains) physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains, located in Washington County in western Maryland and adjacent West Virginia and Pennsylvania, USA.
Garrett County lies in the Allegheny Mountains, which here form the western flank of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Hoye-Crest, a summit along Backbone Mountain, is the highest point in Maryland at an elevation of 3,360 feet (1,020 m). [6] The Eastern Continental Divide runs along portions of Backbone Mountain.
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.
Elk Ridge, or Elk Mountain, is a mountain ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Maryland and is the westernmost of four parallel ridges. It forms the western side of a narrow valley in which are situated the towns of Yarrowsburg and Brownsville .