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Snowshoe Mountain is a ski resort in the eastern United States, located in Snowshoe, West Virginia. [2] The resort has skiable terrain across 244 acres (99 ha) and covers a total area of 11,000 acres (44.5 km 2) in the Allegheny Mountains, which are a part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range. It is positioned in the bowl shaped convergence ...
Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Pocahontas County is a county located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,869. [2] Its county seat is Marlinton. [3] The county was established in 1821.
Snowshoe is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, centering on the Snowshoe Mountain ski resort. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains at a bowl shaped convergence of two high mountain ridges — Cheat and Back Allegheny Mountains — at the head of the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River.
The Allegheny Mountains have a northeast–southwest orientation, running for about 300 miles (480 km) from north-central Pennsylvania southward, through western Maryland and eastern West Virginia. The Alleghenies comprise the rugged western-central portion of the Appalachians. They rise to approximately 4,862 feet (1,482 m) in northeastern ...
Bald Knob is one of only four mountain summits in West Virginia that rise above 4,800 feet (1,500 m), the other three being Spruce Knob, Thorny Flat, and an unnamed summit near Snowshoe, WV. The south face of Bald Knob is the site of the headwaters of Leatherbark Run, West Virginia's highest stream. Until 2001, Bald Knob was thought to be the ...
View west along WV 66 at CR 9/3 (Snowshoe Drive) in Linwood. West Virginia Route 66 is an east–west state highway located within Pocahontas County, West Virginia.The route runs 16.1 miles (25.9 km) from U.S. Route 219 and West Virginia Route 55 near Snowshoe east to West Virginia Route 28 and West Virginia Route 92 south of Green Bank.
The Appalachian Mountains, [b] often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America. The term "Appalachian" refers to several different regions associated with the mountain range, and its surrounding terrain. The general definition used is one followed by the United States Geological Survey and the ...
Cheat Mountain is an exceptionally high and rugged ridge situated in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It is about 50 miles (80 km) long (north to south) and more than five miles (8 km) wide at its widest.