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 "What is the tallest waterfall in the East?"


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 "height" 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 "Viagra Falls"?

Isn't the longest road "Frontage Rd"?

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 "steepest" 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.