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Tuscarora Mountain, Pennsylvania

Prominence: 1438 ft, 438 m

Elevation: 2458 feet, 749 meters

True Isolation: 25.06 mi, 40.33 km

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 2457 ft / 749 m
Highest Summit	Big Mountain
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	39° 57' 0'' N, 77° 56' 14'' W 39.950138, -77.937133 (Dec Deg) 249085 E 4426355 N, Zone 18 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Pennsylvania
County/Second Level Region	Franklin (Highest Point) Fulton (Highest Point)
City/Town	Metal Todd
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Tuscarora Mountain": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Tuscarora Mountain at SummitPost.org Big Mountain at ListsOfJohn.com Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Tuscarora Mountain: (Alternate) Most Prominent Peaks of the U.S. States (Rank #31) Northeast U.S. Peaks with 25 Miles of Isolation (Rank #43) High Points of Counties Crossed by the Appalachian Trail (Rank #62) (Alternate) The USA Second Lap List (Rank #32) Mid-Atlantic with 25 Miles of Isolation (Rank #18) Northeastern USA CoHPs (Rank #85) Mid-Atlantic CoHPs (Rank #34) High Points of Counties in 13 Original States (Rank #124) Pennsylvania County High Points (Rank #15)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 78 Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 76) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 2001-05-24 by Scott Surgent 2009-08-04 by Ben Lostracco 2009-11-26 by Mark Lentz 2011-03-03 by Richard Oestreicher 2011-06-24 by Ethan Myers 2011-07-18 by Jason Potkay 2011-08-07 by Dennis Stewart 2011-10-09 by Ed Wandall 2014-09-01 by David Olson 2015-05-17 by Andrew Hollis 2016-07-03 by PJ Anderer 2016-12-12 by Wayne Snyder (GPS Track) 2017-11-25 by Andy Hatzos (GPS Track) 2017-12-28 by John Morrow 2018-05-20 by Andrew Kirmse 2018-08-31 by Tom Layton 2019-05-04 by Lane Jefferson 2019-06-03 by Mark S 2020-03-07 by Frank Sutman
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The view from Big Mountain, the highest peak on Tuscarora Mountain, on a cloudy day (2019-05-04). Photo by Lane Jefferson.
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Prominence

Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 1438 ft/438 m
  Optimistic Prominence: 1458 ft/444 m
  Key Col: 1020 ft/311 m

Isolation

Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)
   Distance: 25.06 mi/40.33 km
   Isolation Limit Point: 40.167684, -78.315706
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
    Coot Hill  (NW)

Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Appalachian Mountains
Range3: Appalachian Ridges
Range4: Northern Appalachian Ridges
Range5: Southern Pennsylvania Ridges

Drainage Basins

Potomac
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic-Eastern USA
Atlantic Ocean

Juniata
Susquehanna
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic-Eastern USA
Atlantic Ocean

Ownership

Land: Buchanan State Forest

Topo Map

McConnellsburg O39077h8 1:24,000

Data Source

1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map

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