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Snowshoe Fire Tower, West Virginia

Elevation: 4740 feet, 1445 meters

Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)

38° 25' N; 79° 58' W

Country

United States

State/Province

West Virginia

County/Second Level Region

Pocahontas

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Lists that contain Snowshoe Fire Tower:
     West Virginia 4500-foot Peaks (Unranked)

Selected Trip Reports from this site:
     2011-10-09 by Richard Oestreicher

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60 foot fire tower sits at high point on ridge line.Incredible views from top. 4740 height from Snowshoe ski area topo map. I hiked the entire Cheat Ridge Trail and the lowest GPS reading I got was 4665 hence the 75 foot estimate for prominence.

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Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Appalachian Mountains
Range3: Appalachian Plateaus
Range4: Allegheny Mountains
Range5: Shavers Fork Mountain Complex
Range6: Back Allegheny Mountain

Drainage Basins

Monongahela
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean

Greenbrier
New
Kanawha
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean

Ownership

Land: Monongahela National Forest

Topo Map

Cass O38079d8 1:24,000

Prominence

Clean Prominence: 75 ft/23 m
Optimistic Prominence: 75 ft/23 m
Key Col: 4665 ft/1422 m

Isolation

2.2 mi/3.54 km
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
Thorny Flat (SW)
Isolation distance is based on NHN and is slightly overstated.

This peak was submitted to the Peakbagger.com database by Richard Oestreicher.

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