Great North Mountain
| Great North Mountain | |
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View of Great North Mountain from High View, West Virginia
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 3,293 ft (1,004 m) |
| Coordinates | 39°02′08″N 78°34′03″W / 39.03556°N 78.56750°WCoordinates: 39°02′08″N 78°34′03″W / 39.03556°N 78.56750°W |
| Geography | |
| Location | Virginia and West Virginia, U.S. |
| Parent range | Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians |
| Topo map | USGS Wardensville |
| Climbing | |
| Easiest route | Drive, hike |
Great North Mountain is a 50-mile (80 km) long mountain ridge within the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The ridge is located west of the Shenandoah Valley and Massanutten Mountain in Virginia, and east of the Allegheny Mountains and Cacapon River in West Virginia.
Great North Mountain is oriented along a northeast-southwest axis from its southern terminus along the North Fork Shenandoah River in Rockingham County, Virginia to its northern terminus at U.S. Route 522 in Frederick County, Virginia. In the south, the initial 7 miles (11 km) of the ridge is known Church Mountain. For much of its length, the mountain forms the border between Virginia and West Virginia, in two separate stretches; starting 7 miles (11 km) north of its southern terminus at the border of Hardy County, West Virginia, Rockingham County, Virginia and Shenandoah County, Virginia for 26-mile (42 km) with a 4.5 miles (7.2 km) break where the border shifts east to Paddy Mountain around Wilson Cove, followed by an additional 14 miles (23 km) stretch to the north.
The ridge reaches its greatest elevation, 3,293 feet (1,004 m), at the peak of Mill Mountain, on the border between Hardy County, West Virginia, and Shenandoah County, Virginia, in the George Washington National Forest. The mountain is crossed by U.S. Route 48 and West Virginia and Virginia routes 55 between Wardensville, West Virginia, and Strasburg, Virginia.
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