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Blue Ridge Mountains

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Blue Ridge also Blue Ridge Mountains
A range of the Appalachian Mountains extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It rises to 2,038.6 m (6,684 ft) at Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of western North Carolina.

Blue Ridge Mountains
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(Placename) a mountain range in the eastern US, extending from West Virginia into Georgia: part of the Appalachian mountains. Highest peak: Mount Mitchell, 2038 m (6684 ft.)
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Noun1.Blue Ridge Mountains - a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia
NC, North Carolina, Old North State, Tar Heel State - a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
Keystone State, Pennsylvania, PA - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, VA, Virginia - a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians - a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States


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Surrounded by serene natural beauty as it is situated with the Blue Ridge Mountains as its overhead.
North Georgia, known for the Blue Ridge Mountains, offers far more than the outdoor activities the area is often known for.
Big Stone Gap is a one-horse town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where the women talk about their apple butter buns, the men their flatbed trucks, and everyone is married (some more happily than others), apart from the narrator, 35-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan.
 
 
 
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