Clinch Mountain
Mountain ridge in Tennessee and Virginia, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Clinch Mountain is a mountain ridge in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Virginia, lying in the ridge-and-valley section of the Appalachian Mountains. From its southern terminus at Kitts Point, which lies at the intersection of Knox, Union and Grainger counties near Blaine, Tennessee, it runs in a generally east-northeasterly direction to Garden Mountain near Burke's Garden, Virginia. It separates the Clinch River basin to the north and the Holston River basin to the south.
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Clinch Mountain | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 4,689 ft (1,429 m)(Beartown Mountain summit) |
Coordinates | 36°26′N 82°58′W |
Geography | |
Parent range | Appalachian Mountains, Ridge-and-valley Appalachians |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1775 by Daniel Boone and William Bean[1] |
Easiest route | US 25E/SR 32 in Grainger County, Tennessee |
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