About the same time the Alleghenies and Poconos in Pennsylvania are magnificent -- Renovo holds its annual Flaming Foliage Festival on Oct. 14, 15.

The Ambulance BLS / ALS are provided through East Hills Ambulance, Inc. as designated by The Southern Alleghenies EMS Council.

The mountain is often called " the highest point between the Alleghenies and the Rockies " but there are areas in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota with higher elevations.

To the west, the Alleghenies grade down into the dissected Allegheny Plateau ( of which they are sometimes considered to be a part ).

The mountains to the south of the Alleghenies — the Appalachians in westernmost Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee — are the Cumberlands.

The highest ridges of the Alleghenies are just west of the Front, which has an east / west elevational change of up to.

There are very few sizable cities in the Alleghenies.

The High Alleghenies are noted for their forests of red spruce, balsam fir, and mountain ash, trees typically found much farther north.

Certain isolated areas in the High Alleghenies are well known for their open expanses of sphagnum bogs and heath shrubs ( e. g., Dolly Sods, Cranberry Glades ).

But the ecosystems within the Alleghenies are remarkably varied.

Bobcat, snowshoe hare, wild boar and black bear are also found in the forests and parks of the Alleghenies.

The Alleghenies are in the lower center portion.

The two great mountain ranges constituting the middle portion of the Ridge and Valley Province are the Alleghenies and the Cumberlands.

Within the Forest are most of the highest mountain peaks in the state, including the highest, Spruce Knob ( 4, 863 ft ), also the highest point in the Alleghenies.

There are similar areas throughout the High Alleghenies, most famously the Cranberry Glades.

* July 27 – The last two Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 2-6-6-6 “ Alleghenies ” are taken off standby status.

There are only two surviving Alleghenies.

The treaty established a Line of Property which extended the earlier proclamation line of the Alleghenies ( the divide between the Ohio and coastal watersheds ), much farther to the west.

The larger megafauna which once inhabited the High Alleghenies — elk, bison, mountain lion — were all exterminated during the 19th century.

The larger megafauna which once inhabited the High Alleghenies — elk, bison, mountain lion — were all exterminated during the 19th century.

He compared flora and fauna in the Ouachita forest to that of the southern Alleghenies, a division of the Appalachian Mountains.

* Allegheny Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountain Range in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia ( see List of mountains of the Alleghenies )

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.

The rock layers of the Alleghenies were formed during the Appalachian orogeny.

It is thought that these ancient Alleghenians were pushed from the classic Huffman Phase of the eastern slopes of the Alleghenies to the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Virginia, which was eastern Siouan territory.

Somebody had already been trading within the central Alleghenies before the Virginians historical record begins in the Allegheny Mountains.

The " Shatteras " ( an ancient Tutelo ) occupied the Ouasioto Mountains and the earliest term Canaraguy ( Kanawhans otherwise Canawest ) on the 1671 French map occupied the southerly Alleghenies.

Construction on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began at Baltimore in 1828 ; the B & O traversed the Alleghenies, changing the economy and society of the Mountains forever.

Dr. Martin Luther King referenced the Allegheny Mountains in his famous " I Have a Dream " speech ( 1963 ), when he said " Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

It provided an overland route for the Lenape, Shawnee, and early European settlers across the Allegheny Mountains, terminating at its western end on the Allegheny River at the Native American village of Kittanning ( at present day Kittanning, Pennsylvania ), the largest Native American village in the Ohio Country west of the Alleghenies.

Classes began in the fall of 1820 in Old Centre, the first building on campus and the oldest college administration building west of the Allegheny Mountains. Completed in 1820, Old Centre is the oldest continuously operated academic building west of the Alleghenies.

The area eventually became the site of Nemacolin Castle and Brownsville, Pennsylvaniaan important western jumping-off point for travelers crossing the Alleghenies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Here, Monckton was charged with consolidating control of the area around Fort Pitt, as well as the Niagara region and the old French fortifications in the Alleghenies.

A remediation project was completed in 2005, spearheaded by SCRIP ( Stonycreek-Conemaugh River Improvement Project ), a non-governmental organization, in collaboration with OSM, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Southern Alleghenies Conservancy, Somerset County Conservation District and Reliant Energy.

The name derives from the Allegheny River, which drains only a small portion of the Alleghenies in west-central Pennsylvania.

Image: Dome 3136. jpg | Blue Knob, Pennsylvania, the northernmost 3, 000 footer in the Alleghenies.

It opened some of Pennsylvania west of the Alleghenies to white settlement.

In 1854 the portage railroad was rendered obsolete by construction of a locomotive railroad over the Alleghenies by the Pennsylvania Railroad, a private company.

However, by 1853, the first of the three railway systems from the Eastern Seaboard that were to succeed in crossing the Alleghenies and reaching Ohio ( the lines that would form the New York Central Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were the three systems that were the first to reach Ohio from the East ) had linked up with the growing railway network already in place in Ohio, such that it was possible to travel by rail from Ohio in the west to points east.

In April 2009, the show went north of the Mason-Dixon line and went on the air on 95. 9 WZDB Sykesville, Pennsylvania " Rockin the Northern Alleghenies ".

Pennsylvania Highlands Community College is a two year educational institution that provides access to affordable education to residents of the Southern Alleghenies.

The Potomac Highlands broadly overlaps, but is not identical with, the four-state Allegheny Highlands or High Alleghenies region which includes the relatively high and rugged mountains along and near the Allegheny Front from extreme southern Pennsylvania southward across Maryland and West Virginia into adjacent Virginia.