Biggest/Tallest
 

For the geography people: With the Mississippi River as the dividing line between the east and the west, what is the highest mountain, highest mountain range, tallest single drop in a stream/river (waterfall), tallest waterfall (total height), biggest waterfall (by the amount of water going over it), highest town, highest point on a paved road, biggest rock,tallest cliffs, tallest concrete dam, deepest canyon, biggest canyon, tallest earthen dam, in both the east and the west? Anotherwards, what is the highest/tallest/biggest in the west? What is the highest/tallest/biggest in the east? Just a little trivia for you. I am curious to see what the results are. I have always been interested in where the highest/tallest/biggest things are and they are what I usally travel to see.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this, but I believe the highest waterfall in the US is Yosemite Falls. The deepest lake is Crater Lake(I'm sure of that one). I think Leadville, CO and Alma, CO argue about which town is at the highest elevation. And I think El Capitan is the biggest rock?

I'm pretty sure Mt. Mitchell is the highest peak east of the Mississippi.

Quite an involved question, but I am quite sure that none of the above are in Florida (in the East), or Texas in the West, despite all it's superlatives.

WORLD's Tallest Thermometer is in Baker, California

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/roads...hermometer.htm

Utahtea

Lowest Point in North America

Death Valley, California: 282 feet / 86 meters below sea level

Utahtea

Darn it Utahtea, you beat me to the worlds tallest thermometer! :o)
Wheeler Peak, tallest point in Nevada. (Great Basin National Park), also near there along US 50 is considered the "Loneliest Road" in America.

Highest point in the east is Mt. Mitchell near Asheville, N.C., and since the road up there is paved, I'm guessing that's also the highest paved road in the east. Highest town in the east is supposed to be Beech Mtn., N.C.

Since I love driving, I'll give you these:

Highest road in the US it the Mount Evans Byway in Colorado. It goes to the top of the peak, at 14,264ft. It's paved.

In the East, it's NC128 that goes up Mt. Mitchell (6,684ft), which as stjohnbound says is the highest peak East of the Misssissippi. Its end is about 100ft below the summit, but it's easily the highest road in the east. It's also paved.

biggest falls (volume of water) in the US is the niagara

Vegasnative...sorry! :-d

Got another one! Rainbow Bridge ((r))
(Rainbow Bridge National Monument, UTAH) is the world's largest natural bridge.


http://www.nps.gov/rabr/

Utah~tea

I can't play Jeopardy with you people....Useless Knowledge for $1000, Alex...Hehe

I wonder if Guiness Book has this info...

Assuming you are not excluding the two US states of Alaska and Hawaii then you can geologically fight it out as to which one of the two "peaks" McKinley or Mauna Loa are the highest in the ENTIRE United States.

It looks like Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on our planet but as far as elevation <b>above sea level</b>, there are a lot of other peaks higher than Mauna Loa's elevation of 13,681 ft.

Mt. McKinley, Alaska is the highest point in North America at 20,230 feet above sea level and I've seen the peak!

Mt. Whitney, California is the highest peak in the contiguous 48 states at 14,464 feet above sea level.

Utahtea

Just want to clear up something. I am not asking what is the tallest/biggest/highest in the entire united states, but what is the biggest in the west and in the east. With the east and west seperate, since most of the records in tallest/biggest/highest are out west. You all got the obvious ones. Yosemite Falls total in height is the highest in the United States (I am not sure about it being the highest single drop). Highest town is tied between Alma and Leadville,CO. Mt. Micheal is the highest Mountain east of the Mississippi. The road up the mountain might be the highest road east of the Mississippi, but I am not sure if the road goes all the way to the top. Mt. Evans Byway is the highest road in the U.S. and I think Niagra Falls is the biggest waterfall by volume of water. OneWanderingJew- I think the Guiness Book only has world records, but I am not sure. It has more stuff like &quot;World's Tallest Themometer&quot; as Utahtea suggested, than geographical records. By the way Utahtea, I went to that website on that and found it interesting to have a 134 foot themometer.

Highest Mountain is the West is Mt. Whitney, CA.

I'm not sure if this is in the litany of superlatives orginally posted, but Mt. LeConte in the Smokies is the tallest in the east in terms of relief differntial between peak and base.

Deepest canyon? Hell's Canyon is what I have always heard. But that depends on how you measure it.

Okay, let me narrow the question down some. What is the tallest single drop in a river in the east? What is the tallest single drop in the west? Where are the tallest cliffs and where is the tallest rock? Where is the biggest waterfall in the west? And one more, which is the biggest canyon and deepest canyon in the east?

I know, I know!! (where is that &quot;arm up&quot; emoticon?)

Reno, NV is the biggest small city in the world.

Now, if &quot;the biggest small city&quot; is an oxymoron, don't flame me! They have it on display over their main street.

The Worlds largest teapot is located in Chester West Virginia.

FWIW the Guinness book has world record and U.S. records in the geography category. So there's half your questions answered....(but its the `second x-est' that gives trouble, of course.)

The tallest river drop in the West is indeed in Yosimite, but I don't think its called Yosimite falls. Check Guiness.

Backpacker magazine did a multi-issue series last year on visiting/hiking the highest point in each state (their indiana/illinois/ohio issue was a real hoot) -- you might be able to work something out from their articles.

Mt. Washington in NH owns many `worst weather' records -- coldest, highest winds, most snwofall.

The Mass Pike (I-90) somewhere in the Berekshires has a sign about the `highest point on I-90 east of the Missisippi.'

(Man I can't believe I spent time on this. Gotta love that Google, though.)

Deepest Canyon in West: Hells Canyon (7913 ft) In East: New River Gorge, WV (1400) feet. (According to national park service).

Highest highway: in Colorado Springs; Highest in East: The Blue Ridge Parkway spur to the summit of Mt. Mitchell.

Tallest Falls: Colonial Creek Falls, Washington 2,585 (Yosemite is only 2,425). In East: Beaver Brook Cascades, NH, 1000 feet.

Falls by Volume: Niagra, and Celilo Falls on the Columbia River.

Falls by Magnitude (I don't know what this means): Niagra, and Shoshone Falls, in Idaho.

Check out the World Waterfall Database.

I have found the World Waterfall database to be incorrect. Some websites claim it is the New River Gorge that is the deepest canyon and other claim the canyon in Breaks Interstate Park is the deepest. Websites also claim that Whitewater Falls in NC are the tallest, while others claim that Crabtree Falls in VA are the tallest. I am pretty sure Hell's Canyon is the deepest in the west except a couple websites said it is King's Canyon in CA. Niagra I now is the biggest as far as volume of water as a fact. What is the tallest single drop in a river in the east and the west? A waterfall can be 1000 ft high but the tallest single drop may only be 50 ft because it is staircased.

Did a little more research, Celilo Falls was the biggest in the west by volume, but it does not exist anymore, it was sumerged by a dam.

This URL shows a post that does a better job than I did on the problem of answering the question &quot;What is the tallest waterfall in the East?&quot;


www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6788

Note that there are at least six places claiming the title! The problem is simple: there is NO definitive definition of what is meant by the &quot;height&quot; of a waterfall. No official agency has ever made such a definition, so tourist bureaus are free to make any claim they want.

I thought the tallest falls were &quot;Viagra Falls&quot;?

Isn't the longest road &quot;Frontage Rd&quot;?

Kal: :-) :-)

The biggest (is that a word?) lake east of the Mississippi would be Lake Superior! Wow, I'm smart.

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world....and worth the trip. I make a pilgrimage every few years.

you didn't ask, but...
the oldest courthouse still in use west of the Blue Ridge mountains is the Shenandoah County Courthouse (1795) in Woodstock VA

What about this.... What is the steepest paved road in the east and the west?

What is the highest peak in the rockies? What tallest peak in the west? The rockies? By highest, I mean highest elevation. By tallest, I mean the greatest relief or distance between the base and the top of the peak.

I read &quot;steepest&quot; as sleepiest. If you want to drive the sleepiest paved road in America, I have a candidate.

Route 50 in Nevada?

Is the grand teton the tallest mountain in the rockies (height between base and top, not the altitude)? If not that, they (the teton range) most be the most steepest range in the west. Maybe is it the tallest peak in the west? It is just neat to visit the biggest,deepest, tallest, highest places.