Saddle Mountain (Mineral County, West Virginia)

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Saddle Mountain as viewed at sunrise from Skyline, on U.S. Route 50 in West Virginia Saddle-mtn.jpg
Saddle Mountain as viewed at sunrise from Skyline, on U.S. Route 50 in West Virginia

Saddle Mountain is a section of New Creek Mountain in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains in Mineral County, West Virginia. [1] The mountain is so named for its shape. It is best viewed from Skyline which is located to the west along US 50 at the intersection with WV 42, atop the Allegheny Front. The mountain's elevation is 3,074 feet (937 m).

New Creek Mountain mountain ridge in West Virginia, USA

New Creek Mountain is a mountain ridge of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians in Grant and Mineral counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The mountain is named for New Creek which rises and flows along its western flanks. It is part of the Wills Mountain Anticline, with Knobly Mountain along its eastern flank. The Allegheny Front rises steeply to the west of New Creek Mountain. Oriskany (Ridgeley) sandstone cliffs ring the entire mountain.

Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian division and are also a belt within the Appalachian Mountains extending from southeastern New York through northwestern New Jersey, westward into Pennsylvania and southward into Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. They form a broad arc between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Appalachian Plateau physiographic province. They are characterized by long, even ridges, with long, continuous valleys in between.

A physiographic province is a geographic region with a characteristic geomorphology, and often specific subsurface rock type or structural elements.

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Coordinates: 39°18′09″N79°04′44″W / 39.30250°N 79.07889°W / 39.30250; -79.07889

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