7. McKinley
Alaska – the biggest U.S. state. Along the Pacific coast of Alaska stretches the Alaska Variety. Here is Mount McKinley (six,194 m over sea degree) – the highest mountain in the United States.
6. Brooks Assortment More north beyond the Arctic Circle, there is the Brooks Assortment, which length is more than 950 kilometers and an average peak – 2000 – 2500 meters above sea level. five. Appalachian Mountains Appalachian Mountains – the mountain range in the eastern U.S. and Canada stretching about 2500 km. Appalachian Mountains are situated in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina. The common height of Appalachia is all around 900 meters above sea degree, the highest stage – Mount Mitchell in North Carolina has a peak of two,037 m. This is the highest level of the U.S. east of the Mississippi River. Appalachian mountain system is divided into two regions: Northern and Southern Appalachian Mountains. Northern Appalachians are composed of substantial plateaus of about 400 meters, about which rise the mountains some 1300 – 1900 meters (Longfellow in Maine, Adirondacks in upstate New York, the Green Mountains in Vermont, White Mountains in New Hampshire). In the eastern part of the Southern Appalachian Piedmont Plateau is positioned in height from 40 meters to the east and 400 meters to the west. Plateau moves in the Blue Ridge, with its highest point Mount Mitchell. West of the Blue Ridge is a huge valley, passing in the Appalachian plateau, decreases from 1500 to 500 meters. Rocky Mountains – a mountain variety in the Cordillera, which stretches over 4500 km through the territory of the United States and Canada. 4. Mount Elbert Rockies commence in New Mexico, north of starting to be wider and increased, reaching in Colorado and Utah width of 500 km. In Colorado, are the bulk of the highest mountains in the Rocky, including the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains (and the 2nd highest in the continental U.S., after Mount Whitney in California) – Mount Elbert (4401 m). Even more to the north-west, in Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, the width of the Rockies does not exceed 240 km, and height – 3912 meters. Rocky Mountains are the watershed involving the basins of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the Rocky Mountains meet the geysers and very hot springs, the most well-known of which are situated in Yellowstone Nationwide Park. Pacific mountains – a series of mountain ranges that stretch along the Pacific coast of the United States. 3. Olympus In the north, in Washington, there are the Olympic Mountains. They are reasonably low, the greatest mountain – Olympus, rises to two,427 meters. The western slopes of the Olympic Mountains descend immediately into the Pacific Ocean. 2. Mount St. Helens More south, in Washington, Oregon and northern California Cascade Mountains stretch integrated in the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a chain of volcanoes stretching all around the Pacific Ocean. All the volcanoes in the continental U.S. can take location in the Cascade Mountains, the final major eruption – the volcano Mount St. Helens, 1980. In Oregon there is also located coastal (or Oregon) array, at the duration of 320 kilometers and a maximum altitude of one,248 meters. 1. Mount Whitney In the east there are mountains of California’s Sierra Nevada, stretching more than 750 kilometers. In the Sierra Nevada mountains is Mount Whitney (4,421 m) – the highest in the continental United States. 
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