Green Mountains
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The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont and are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains. The range runs primarily south to north and extends approximately Template:Convert from the border with Massachusetts to the border with Quebec, Canada. The part of the same range that is in Massachusetts and Connecticut is known as The Berkshires<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> or the Berkshire Hills<ref>Template:Cite gnis</ref> (with the Connecticut portion, mostly in Litchfield County, locally called the Northwest Hills or Litchfield Hills) and the Quebec portion is called the Sutton Mountains, or Template:Ill in French.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
All mountains in Vermont are often referred to as the "Green Mountains". However, other ranges within Vermont, including the Taconic Mountains in southwestern Vermont and the Northeastern Highlands, are not geologically part of the Green Mountains.
PeaksEdit
The best-known mountains—for reasons such as high elevation, ease of public access by road or trail (especially the Long Trail and Appalachian Trail), or with ski resorts or towns nearby—in the range include:<ref>Peak elevations taken from {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Mount Mansfield, Template:Convert, the highest point in Vermont
- Killington Peak, Template:Convert
- Camel's Hump, Template:Convert
- Mount Ellen, Template:Convert
- Mount Abraham, Template:Convert
- Pico Peak, Template:Convert
- Stratton Mountain, Template:Convert
- Jay Peak, Template:Convert, receives the most snowfall on average in the eastern United States.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Bread Loaf Mountain, Template:Convert
- Mount Wilson, Template:Convert
- Glastenbury Mountain, Template:Convert
- Burke Mountain, Template:Convert
The Green Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountains, a range that stretches from Quebec in the north to Alabama in the south. The Green Mountains are part of the New England/Acadian forests ecoregion.<ref name="Ecoregions">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Three peaks—Mount Mansfield, Camel's Hump, and Mount Abraham—support alpine vegetation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
TourismEdit
Some of the mountains are developed for skiing and other snow-related activities. Others have hiking trails for use in summer.<ref>Green Mountains (Vermont) : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering. SummitPost. Retrieved on 2013-07-12.</ref> Mansfield, Killington, Pico, and Ellen have downhill ski resorts on their slopes. All of the major peaks are traversed by the Long Trail, a wilderness hiking trail that runs from the southern to northern borders of the state and is overlapped by the Appalachian Trail for roughly Template:Frac of its length.
HistoryEdit
The Vermont Republic, also known as the Green Mountain Republic,<ref>See, e.g., Robert Temple, Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places (2008), p. 6; Paul Finkelman and Stephen E. Gottlieb, Toward a Usable Past: Liberty Under State Constitutions (University of Georgia Press, 2009), p. 375; Ralph Nading Hill, The College on the Hill: A Dartmouth Chronicle (Dartmouth Publications: 1965), pp. 46, 50; Vermont Historical Society, Vermont History, Vol. 66-67 (1998), p. 87.</ref> existed from 1777 to 1791, at which time Vermont became the 14th state.
Vermont not only takes its state nickname ("The Green Mountain State") from the mountains, it is named after them. The French Monts Verts or Verts Monts is literally translated as "Green Mountains". This name was suggested in 1777 by Dr. Thomas Young, an American revolutionary and Boston Tea Party participant. The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College is referred to as UVM, after the Latin Universitas Viridis Montis (University of the Green Mountains).<ref>History and Traditions Template:Webarchive, University of Vermont.</ref>
Geology and physiographyEdit
The Green Mountains are a physiographic section of the larger New England province, which in turn is part of the larger Appalachian physiographic division.<ref name="USGS-Water">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Green Mountain National Forest
- Green Mountain Parkway
- Green Mountain Boys—paramilitary infantry led by Ethan Allen that took Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution
- Green Mountain Club
- List of subranges of the Appalachian Mountains
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