For other mountains with a similar name, see Allegheny Mountain

Allegheny Mountain

Allegheny Mountain may refer to:* The Allegheny Mountains range in the eastern United States** Mountains within the range, including:***Allegheny Mountain — or "Alleghany" — demarcating much of the border between the two states...

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Allegheny Mountain (spelling as Alleghany Mountain in Virginia

Virginia

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) is a major mountain ridge in the southern range of the Allegheny Mountains

Allegheny Mountains

The Allegheny Mountain Range , also spelled Alleghany, Allegany and, informally, the Alleghenies, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada...

, part of the Appalachian Mountains

Appalachian Mountains

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. It forms the Eastern Continental Divide

Eastern Continental Divide

The Eastern Continental Divide, in conjunction with other continental divides of North America, demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed. Prior to 1760, the divide represented the boundary between British and French colonial...

 along part of its course and also serves as part of the Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

-West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

 state line.

Elevations of 4000 feet (1,219.2 m) are exceeded along much of Allegheny Mountain.

Major peaks

listed from southwest to northeast:

• Hickory Knob - 3309 feet (1,008.6 m)
• Smith Knob
• Chestnut Knob
• High Top (Lookout Tower)
• Chestnut Levels
• Mad Tom
• Mad Sheep - 4225 feet (1,287.8 m)
• Paddy Knob - 4477 feet (1,364.6 m)
• Bald Knob
• Watering Pond Knob
• Bear Mountain
• Top of Allegheny (site of Camp Allegheny battlefield)
• Tamarack Ridge
• Grassy Knob

See also

• Monongahela National Forest
  Monongahela National Forest
  The Monongahela National Forest is a national forest located in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It protects over of federally-owned land within a proclamation boundary that includes much of the Potomac Highlands Region and portions of 10 counties.The MNF includes some...
  
  
• George Washington National Forest
• Battle of Camp Allegheny