Talk:Blue Ridge Mountains

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Unless I'm mistaken, the Shenandoah Mountains are not part of the Blue Ridge province, so I'm removing it from the list of mountains; and adding a few others. Pfly 21:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Grandfather Mountain has a maximum elevation of 5,964 feet. The promoters at Grandfather Mountain (which is a sort of natural theme-park) claim thier peak as the highest in the Blue Ridge Mountains. On the other hand, Mount Mitchell enjoys a superior elevation of 6,684 feet abouve sea level (USGS). Mount Mitchell is normally identified as a constituent of the short, high, Black Mountain Range. However, the Black Mountains are themselves a constituent of the Blue Ridge, which runs the length of Appalachia. For this reason, I'm changing the note about the highest peak in the range to reflect Mount Mitchell. eoo2 18:16, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

The Great Smoky Mountains and Roan Mountain do not belong. Both are along the North Carolina-Tennessee border which is further west than the Blue Ridge Mountains. -- KarlHallowell (talk) 02:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I stand corrected. The two above would be included in the geological region defined as the Blue Ridge Mountains. I think it would be worthwhile to distinguish between the mountains that are part of the geographical Blue Ridge Mountain chain and the larger region that includes the Smokies and Roan Mountain. -- KarlHallowell (talk) 02:30, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I just removed an external link to site which does offer a "blue ridge" portal, but is sells advertising on that portal. The anon editor added it back stating that it was was "approved" and had been here for two years (Earliest I could find it added was [here] in July of 2006 by and anon editor and it has been removed multiple times since then. This site seems obviously commercial to me and trying to advertise its site by having an external link. If folks interpret the site differently I'll defer to consensus, but this seems to be exactly what Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#ADVERTISING says should not be linked in Wikipedia. --Roswell native (talk) 22:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The 'highest peak' thing again.

In spite of what the people who own (and promote, and sell tickets to...) Grandfather Mountain may claim, the Black Mountain range is part of the Blue Ridge Mountains (look at just about any map from a neutral party) and therefore Mount Mitchell is not just the highest point in the Blue Ridge, but in the Appalachians as a whole. 'Card (talk) 23:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)