New Hampshire resident here. Mount Washington, as well as the rest of the White Mountains, are absolutely stunning. I feel very grateful the have grown up in this beautiful environment :)
A little trivia and a little common sense will tell you the answer. The trivia is Florida is the flattest state. The common sense is they have a lot of beaches. Average that out of starting with beaches and them being the flattest state and you can get to the answer; which is "Not Arkansas".
Last week, I was at PIKES PEAK in Colorado and its elevation was 14,115 feet (4302 meters) above sea level. I nearly passed out from the lack of oxygen at that height.
I’ve been to the top of Pike’s Peak several times. Once by car and several by the cog railway. It’s an amazing trip but the lack of oxygen at the top can be hard to handle.
@@kevinp8108 Have you ever watched the Pikes Peak car race? I personally love it lol. Going on the Cog Railway for the 5th time in a few weeks! Haven’t been there since 2015!
Not only is California home to the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states (Mt. Whitney), it's also home to the lowest elevation spot in the entire country (Death Valley, over 200 feet below sea level). Even more stunning, both Mt. Whitney and Death Valley are located in the same county, Inyo County.
Just an FYI... California's highest peak, Mount Whitney is 14,495 feet above sea level. California's lowest, Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level. They are only 180 mile apart. That would be approximately a 3 hour drive from highest to lowest.
5 generations of my family born and raised in Colo. We lived at 7500 ft. above sea level but one time lived in a different place that was over 10,000 ft. Anything you cooked needed extra lifting ingredients, food was hard to get done and always short of breath.
Yup! Water takes longer to get hot (it boils at a lower temperature the higher you go), and you have to keep adding more flour to baking if you don't want your stuff flat as a crepe. What's really sad is baking companies only consider up to 6,000 feet for high altitude adjustments. My Mom called Betty Crocker once, not long after moving up to 8,600 feet for updated adjustments...the Betty Crocker representative said no one lives over 6,000 so they've never worked on that. Tell that to the people in the few cities over 10,000 feet, or the people who make the donuts on the top of Pikes Peak (14,115 feet).
@@Moraenil that's crazy as every box used to have high altitude directions where you had to add more flour, baking soda or baking powder. I remember potatoes being impossible to get done.
@@jewel1953 They do have high altitude directions, but only up to 5 or 6,000 feet, not higher. That much adjustment isn't enough for 8,500 feet or higher. Fortunately she figured it out.
Have been up and down Hog Back mountain a few times lol. At the top on a clear day you can see 7 states and I think its the Boston harbour maybe, been a few years. Vermont is a beautiful state.
@@spikebeans9563It is indeed. I live in NJ, which is obviously mostly low level, so Vermont is a ski destination for me. It's the best I can do in my area at least. 😂
@@jariemonah I think nj is one of the states you can see from top. I lived in new Hampshire a year and the big ski place around us was Temple Mt. I never got into skiing. Tried cross country one time when I lived in Anchorage, Ak. and about broke my neck. Said nope way in hell on the downhills lol. Have a local one to me now, still don't go lol.
54 out of the highest 100 mountains in the US are in Colorado. And alternately, Colorado has the highest low point in the US at 3,317 ft. Its low point is higher than the highest point of 18 other states. I'm on the high desert plains at about 6000 ft. Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park said while building the road they had blizzards with winds in excess of 200 mph. Long's Peak in the winter will often have winds over 100 mph. You don't want to be there then.
Hello fellow Coloradan. I'm just a little higher than you at 6,276'. I was a little disappointed they didn't give am honorable mention of "America's Mountain" Pikes Peak at 14,115' since they're talking mountains, but I get that they wanted to just stick to the highest. I just couldn't help but keep laughing (and feeling a little sad for them at the same time) at the lower high points, thinking "I'm sitting higher than those areas right now," especially the ones called mountains, when I'm on a hill next to mountains. We routinely get winds gusting to over 50mph. I've had to stop decorating for holidays because decorations keep almost blowing away and I don't want to lose them. Can't even have potted plants or a bird feeder out cause they'll just blow away too.
I lived in Boulder and Longmont for 28 years. I always had Long Peaks as a view and flatirons in Boulder. I remember having a 3 story condo when winds were around 100 mph and I thought we would be gone.
I lived in a town that was just at the border of Colorado and Kansas, and it's pretty much all flat til you get to about the middle third of the state. Like if you didn't see the sign saying "Welcome to colorful Colorado!" (or any other signs indicating where you currently are) you could be forgiven for thinking you're still in Kansas 'til the mountains start appearing over the horizon.
Eastern Colorado is just a continuation of Kansas’ geography until you get to the Front Range of the Rockies and see the mountains rising suddenly out of the plains. Mt Elbert may be over 14000 ft but it’s only around 9000 ft above nearby Denver, the mile high city on the plains at the base of the Front Range
Yep, US elevation changes are wild. I've made the trip from high desert in Idaho (6000 ft above sea level) to the valley in Oregon (sea level) many times. Its wild to take what is called "Dead Man's Pass" and its all sunny and you could almost mistake the clouds filling the valley for the ocean, and then you descend into fog, and pop out the bottom in torrential rain. Its a trip.
For your question about what that was in the middle of the mountain in Georgia, I looked up the video and blew it up a bit so I could see it better. There looks to be some large machinery running around, so I'm going to guess that field has something to do with a mine in the area. In that portion of the US, they tend to cut the tops right off of mountains to mine coal and other minerals. It could also be a potash mining field or water reclamation, but my best guess is something to do with some sort of mining.
In PNW we have the Cascade range with 6 major peaks and one less major because on until March 27, 1980 Mount St. Helens blew its top and spread itself all over the world. That would be a great video to react to sometime.
I went to basic training in north carolina at an elevation of around 100-200ft, then went to arizona for intel training at 5000 ft. The elevation difference was so severe that my first 2mile run, i lost 2 minutes on my time and my nose started bleeding.
This video said it has been known since 2015 as Denali, before that as Mt. McKinley??? Funny, in 1982 when I lived there it was referred to as Denali. I know it as both and have since82. Guess it depends on who you talk to which name is used.
The Georgia thing you were alluding to is a parking lot for the welcome center. It is near this parking lot (about 80% of the way up the mountain) where you can get on the van shuttle to the top, or you can walk it yourself.
Yes, you can visit these high points as they are maintained for tourist visits. Most sell area souvenirs and some snacks. There are roads and parking places, but the higher the elevation, the longer the trip and you may want some snacks when you arrive. BTW, since there are no rulers tall enough to measure these areas, in the States & around the world, these heights are measured using the Mercator principle. This cylindrical map takes into account the roundness of the earth when measuring. The high points on private land, may or may not be open to the public. You'd need to speak to an area tour guide or there are lots of tourist offices that would let you know.
The Mt. Washington wind speed record occurred when the jet stream (usually tens of thousands of feet up) descended very low one winter and gave them wind speeds normally only seen at 30,000 feet. Out west, we don’t call a hill a mountain unless it’s at least 10,000 feet, so it’s comical to see they call 500 foot hills “mountains” in other states.
10,000 might be extreme. As a lifelong westerner I'd say 2-3k is "foothills" and above that is "mountain". As we saw in this video, most mountain peaks out West don't exceed 10,000 feet.
@@nonconsensualopinion CA has 42 peaks over 10k, 18 over 13k, it's hard to call 5k hills in the east "mountains". Every highest peak in the western states was well over 10k. CO has 58 peaks over 14k. When it comes to peaks JUST between 10,000 feet and 10,999 feet there's 530 just in CO
@@seethe42 @aaronschooley9103 To add to it, technically, the foothills are the elevations between 6-9,000 feet. That's according to geologists and meterologists.
The highest I personally have been to Haleakalā Crater in Maui, Hawaii. A 10,023 feet shield volcano while doing some photography and visiting family. (See the pic in my profile). I didn't have any altitude sickness. Matter of fact I felt no difference, but some others felt the difference a bit and couldn't walk or move much. I just stayed hydrated. I was born in VA and we have mountains so I suppose I had an advantage.
Omg. I’m from Louisiana, I’ve even been to Kisatchie state park… I FORGOT WE HAD A MOUNTAIN?? Louisiana is not known for being high up at all, and in fact New Orleans is below sea level (mostly), so I’m like… re-shocked all over again lol. I love y’all for this!!
I lived in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts in my high school years in the 1970s, and we frequently visited Mount Greylock. It is really impressive!
I knew it! I've been in Florida for a year and some change. I said to myself I can't imagine Florida being high on the list because there are no hills here.
your guys reactions/facial expressions are too cute. lol, p.s. the pic of wheeler peak for New Mexico didn't do it any justice. i recommend googling it to see why it's so popular for skiing. also close to Taos/Angel Fire, so world famous skiing. it is stunningly beautiful, especially the drive up coming from south of it.
This! The area is beautiful and even if you didn't feel like hiking the summit, the basin below the peak at Williams Lake is beautiful and is a pretty simple hike, and still offers great views of Wheeler and the surrounding peaks. Taos is one of my favorite places to ski and I'd definitely put it up against any of the other resorts in Colorado I've been to.
@@cacahuate505 I just love all of New Mexico. Just got back from Las Cruces yesterday. I went to college in ABQ and used to love going up to Holy Ghost Creek on weekends in the summer for that hike. So many people just think of desert 🏜 😂
Remember, the people who named Spruce Knob originally migrated from Britain ... so they might have named it that way on purpose, _knowing_ what “knob” meant back home.
@@marcom6089 Now you’ve got me wondering ... _when_ was that peak first named Spruce Knob? And at that time was “knob” still a naughty word in the local dialect of American English? I would have to guess the _ancestors_ of the _English_ speaking Americans in West Virginia (or of Virginia before 1863) probably came from _England_ ... but by the time they named the peak they may have forgotten, or may never have known, the alternate meaning of the word “knob” ...
In California the highest elevation is hard to tell from some the other surrounding mountains. My favorite is Mount Shasta which juts up from a very low elevation to 14,179 feet. As someone who grew up in California I really love Mt Shasta. I’ve even summited Mt Whitney
The view from Whitney looking out over the desert brings the height into context much more than Shasta, not to mention the cliff drops along the trail windows which you totally miss from the Whitney Portal (eastern) side of the mountain. The hike from Guitar Lake on the west is very different
@@seethe42 I agree from the top it is gorgeous. I’ve started at Golden Trout Trailhead, went up Perrin Creek dropped over to Crabtree Lakes, camped for a few days then went to the top of Mt Whitney. The view over to Death Valley is amazing. However I’ve never been to the top of Shasta I imagine it feels amazing too, especially since it is a more challenging ascent
@@davidterry6155 We did Cottonwood around through Rock Creek, Crabtree Meadows, Guitar Lake, Whitney then out to the Portal over the course of 9 days. Beautiful trip and tasty golden trout.
Around Appalachia, knob is used for a lot of mountains, just like the hollow/holler for valleys. It probably comes from some kind of archaic English for the 1500s or something.
I enjoyed this. Found it interesting that the Wyoming town I grew up in with views of 12,000 ft. peaks sat at a higher elevation than most of the high points east of the Mississippi at 7200 ft.
I believe Clingman's Dome has been renamed to Kuwohi. Also 7 states are visible from the top: Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama
Brasstown Bald, Georgia that weird looking area is parking for the overlook. You 2 kids are so silly...knob is also something that used to be on old timey TVs.
This video is about average elevation at all. It is about the absolute highest elevation for each state. I guess Delaware has the lowest average elevation. .....but since they were playin the highest elevation game it seemed like those were the parameters to play by and death valley gas the the lowest elevation
Don’t feel too bad about naming Colorado as “a really flat state.” The eastern half of Colorado is much like Kansas, so flat that if you stand out in a crop field, there is nothing higher than your head all the way to the horizon ... the biggest sky you can see anywhere on land.
It mentioned Lake Placid which is the lake from the movie Lake Placid which is several movies about a dangerous lake with deadly Crocodiles and very popular series. I suggest reacting too each one. great movies. another movie series worth watching is Tremors.
Mt greylock is where Ivamorny is supposed to be located. It’s the American wizarding school that specializes in powerful magics and are known for having an accelerated curriculum. The mountain is constantly full of fog for the school to stay hidden.
What about Death Valley, which is below sea level at 282f (-86m), or New Orleans which sits at 8 ft (-2m) below sea level. There are also several places in the US that are at sea level: 0 ft (0m)
Please turn up the volume of the videos y'all are watching James.....it is often hard to hear them without turning the volume up so high that you and Millie are then too loud.
Just outside of my city is a point in Rib Mountain for the longest time it was considered the highest point in Wisconsin. Timm’s Hill wasn’t recently was discovered to be the highest point . However Rib mountain still has the highest point compared to the surrounding area as the Wisconsin River valley runs close by the mountain.
You guys aren't the only ones who forgets about Hawaii and Alaska. Sometimes I forget those 2 states also as an American. I guess those 2 states are easy to forget since those are both not on the mainland obviously.
Mount Magazine is in Mount Magazine State Park. There's a lodge, cabins and a restaurant at the top, as well as a gazebo and pavilion. It's well worth the trip.
The neighborhood I grew up on is called “Heavenly Heights” and all our streets are named after mountains. I grew up on Alps Road, my best friend grew up on Mt. Everest, and we have Mt Marcy and all other kinds of fun mountain roads throughout the neighborhood!
Vermont means Green Mountains in French. It's not uncommon for winds on Mt. Washington to blow at 30 mph and it snows EVERY month of the year. This past June was the snowiest June on record. I love hiking that mountain. The state park at the summit is where I get my coke and hot dog for my hike down the mountain.
Lots of fun watching you react. I cracked up at myself, because it took me more than half of the video to recognize the voice narrating your reaction video (I'm sure I've watched more than 50 of his videos). I follow Chicago Geographer for his Geoguessr videos. I always thought he had a great narration voice, but never heard him outside of him recording his own competitive stuff.
Maine's Mt. Katahdin is one of the best climbs, but not easy to climb and considered the toughest on the Appalachian trail mountains, and you must be very good at climbing and ok with sheer drops with part of the climb including a stretch called Knifes edge.
I live near Brasstown Bald. The part you pause and ask about is the parking lot (car park). There's a road you can drive up the mountain and that is where you can park near the top.
Yes , you can visit Mount Greylock in Massachusetts. The drive up has beautiful views in the fall for foliage. I do know what a knob is in British English...lol.
I live in Central New Jersey about 5 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. We're sitting around 10 feet above sea level. Traveling nortwest from me towards the Delaware River the elevation climbs to over 1,000 feet. You can feel your ears pop from the change
Just as a point of reference... A lot of us have been watching British Comedies for a very long time (PBS has been showing them since at least the 70s). We have an idea what a knob is ;)
Living in the West, my house sits at a higher elevation than most of the mountains up to half-way point. I'm on a bench, so I am on a slightly higher level than the valley (approximately 4000 feet sea level at my place and probably about 3200-3500 in the valley), but the mountains are at least 2000-3000 feet higher, and they are on the smaller end.
Hey guys, North Carolinian here (now living in Utah). I've climbed both Clingmans Dome and Mount Mitchell, and Clingmans Dome is the harder of the two because of the steep gradient. They're about 7 miles apart from each other, and Clingmans Dome actually is just across the North Carolina border in Tennessee, about a 5 minute drive across the state line.
When i was a kid we drove up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. not sure how the road to drive to the top is these days but, when i was a kid it was scary as hell. barely enough room for 2 way traffic but there was. no guardrails from what i remember. was just you and the edge. yes, it was real windy when we got to the top. there were pictures of all the cars that fell off the road and down the mountain being rescued lol.
I've been on the Mt. Washington auto road recently and it's still pretty scary. My partner drove and my dad was in the front so he could take video of the trip up. My mom isn't a fan of heights so she kept her eyes closed most of the way up and didn't want to get out of the car when we reached the top. I've also gone up the Mt. Washington Cog Rail to the summit and that was a fun ride. The seats in the rail car are tilted so when you are going up, you don't fall out of the seat.
I lived in Dublin, N. H. A year, and there is a sign in the middle of the road that stated that is was the highest elevated town in the us or nh, can't remember which. Are you familiar with it?
Mt. Washington does not play around. Last year they had 8 HOURS of 130+ wind speeds on a day where the temperature at ground level was bone chilling -30 so the Summit hit the insane -101 for the wind chill. Still not even the coldest day they've had. The mountain has violent winds all the time but the views are amazing on a clear day.
A knob is a rounded prominent hill in the states. clingmans Dome, mount Ranier, Denali and Mauna Kea are in National parks.Mount Hood is in a National Forest
I've visited Mt. Greylock and Mt. Washington. Mount Washington is known for having "The Worst Weather In The World" I went up to the summit by the cog railroad. Quite the experience, and bit scary going back down. That day the weather was bad as per usual, 45 ℉ fog drizzle, winds at 40mph. This was in early September. Then the next day, I tried going up by car, but the roads were closed that day because the fog was so thick the visibility was only 4 feet and I think the winds were higher.
You can definitely visit that monument on mt Greylock in Massachusetts. I have been there several times. And if the weather is cooperative you can witch people jump off the side and fly down in hang gliders!
I live in Budd Lake NJ (Northwest NJ) and have been to High Point a few times. It is about 30 minutes from my house. I have some great pictures up where the obelisk is. You can walk around the whole thing. When you get to that area you can look out on each side & see Pennsylvania, New York & you are in New Jersey already. Look it up on Google maps then go down to street level you can walk up to the obelisk for the view as though you were there. It is really a great view in the Fall when the trees are turning . I have some good memories. The first time I went was with my boyfriend. We packed a few sandwiches & something to drink for a lunch at High Point. It was fun & beautiful as are you both.
Rhode island is the smallest state. Delaware is the 2nd smallest state. I've climbed Mt katahdin in Maine that's my home state and parts of Mt Washington in New Hampshire. The US is sometimes referred to as the lower 48. That excludes Alaska and Hawaii because obviously they're not connected to rest of the states.
New Hampshire resident here. Mount Washington, as well as the rest of the White Mountains, are absolutely stunning. I feel very grateful the have grown up in this beautiful environment :)
I nearly died when James said Colorado 😂
My bad aha!
Just 💀😂
Yeah I think I nearly died of shock there lmao
Followed by Arkansas😅
I live in Colorado in a valley and we are at 5545 thousand feet. Colorado also has 58 14,000 ft peaks.
As a born and raised Arkansan, I just chuckled and shook my head hearing "Arkansas" as the guess for the lowest high point.
A little trivia and a little common sense will tell you the answer. The trivia is Florida is the flattest state. The common sense is they have a lot of beaches. Average that out of starting with beaches and them being the flattest state and you can get to the answer; which is "Not Arkansas".
Arkansas's was really small though
Last week, I was at PIKES PEAK in Colorado and its elevation was 14,115 feet (4302 meters) above sea level. I nearly passed out from the lack of oxygen at that height.
I’ve been to the top of Pike’s Peak several times. Once by car and several by the cog railway. It’s an amazing trip but the lack of oxygen at the top can be hard to handle.
@@beccaRey - I went up by car and it was a scary drive up the winding road! I was shocked to see school buses make it up the road.
@@kevinp8108 yeah I found going by car scary. The cog railway wasn’t scary and had better views.
@@kevinp8108 Have you ever watched the Pikes Peak car race? I personally love it lol. Going on the Cog Railway for the 5th time in a few weeks! Haven’t been there since 2015!
i live colorado. it is the middle of july and they just announced the closing of the last ski resorts. winter is never that far away
I love when clothes shops have spring sales because I can get discounted warm clothes while it’s still cold here, lol.
Not only is California home to the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states (Mt. Whitney), it's also home to the lowest elevation spot in the entire country (Death Valley, over 200 feet below sea level). Even more stunning, both Mt. Whitney and Death Valley are located in the same county, Inyo County.
Wow! Didn't know that! I should say I didn't know they were in the same county.
18:03 they don’t ski on rocks Millie. They’re just not showing the area where skiing would take place when there is snow.
Just an FYI...
California's highest peak, Mount Whitney is 14,495 feet above sea level.
California's lowest, Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level. They are only 180 mile apart. That would be approximately a 3 hour drive from highest to lowest.
I laughed at the highest state guess, California may be the highest state, but has noting to do with the elevation. Alaska folks, you forgot Alaska.
5 generations of my family born and raised in Colo. We lived at 7500 ft. above sea level but one time lived in a different place that was over 10,000 ft. Anything you cooked needed extra lifting ingredients, food was hard to get done and always short of breath.
Yup! Water takes longer to get hot (it boils at a lower temperature the higher you go), and you have to keep adding more flour to baking if you don't want your stuff flat as a crepe. What's really sad is baking companies only consider up to 6,000 feet for high altitude adjustments. My Mom called Betty Crocker once, not long after moving up to 8,600 feet for updated adjustments...the Betty Crocker representative said no one lives over 6,000 so they've never worked on that. Tell that to the people in the few cities over 10,000 feet, or the people who make the donuts on the top of Pikes Peak (14,115 feet).
@@Moraenil that's crazy as every box used to have high altitude directions where you had to add more flour, baking soda or baking powder. I remember potatoes being impossible to get done.
@@jewel1953 They do have high altitude directions, but only up to 5 or 6,000 feet, not higher. That much adjustment isn't enough for 8,500 feet or higher. Fortunately she figured it out.
Florida shouldn't be a surprise. It's mostly swamp and the state is basically underwater every time there's a hurricane. 😂😂😂
As a Colorado native...I just about spat my tea out when you guessed Colorado as the lowest state lol.
I mean, it’s only ~5280 feet/1609 meters above sea level depending on where you live in the state. It’s not *that* high. 😂
10:36 James: "Surprised Vermont is so high." Vermont literally translates to Green Mountains in French. 😂😂😂
Have been up and down Hog Back mountain a few times lol. At the top on a clear day you can see 7 states and I think its the Boston harbour maybe, been a few years. Vermont is a beautiful state.
@@spikebeans9563It is indeed. I live in NJ, which is obviously mostly low level, so Vermont is a ski destination for me. It's the best I can do in my area at least. 😂
@@jariemonah I think nj is one of the states you can see from top. I lived in new Hampshire a year and the big ski place around us was Temple Mt. I never got into skiing. Tried cross country one time when I lived in Anchorage, Ak. and about broke my neck. Said nope way in hell on the downhills lol. Have a local one to me now, still don't go lol.
54 out of the highest 100 mountains in the US are in Colorado. And alternately, Colorado has the highest low point in the US at 3,317 ft. Its low point is higher than the highest point of 18 other states. I'm on the high desert plains at about 6000 ft. Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park said while building the road they had blizzards with winds in excess of 200 mph. Long's Peak in the winter will often have winds over 100 mph. You don't want to be there then.
True, mile high for a reason.
Hello fellow Coloradan. I'm just a little higher than you at 6,276'. I was a little disappointed they didn't give am honorable mention of "America's Mountain" Pikes Peak at 14,115' since they're talking mountains, but I get that they wanted to just stick to the highest. I just couldn't help but keep laughing (and feeling a little sad for them at the same time) at the lower high points, thinking "I'm sitting higher than those areas right now," especially the ones called mountains, when I'm on a hill next to mountains. We routinely get winds gusting to over 50mph. I've had to stop decorating for holidays because decorations keep almost blowing away and I don't want to lose them. Can't even have potted plants or a bird feeder out cause they'll just blow away too.
I lived in Boulder and Longmont for 28 years. I always had Long Peaks as a view and flatirons in Boulder. I remember having a 3 story condo when winds were around 100 mph and I thought we would be gone.
@@Moraenil the wind get real high imo.. I still love it here.
I lived in a town that was just at the border of Colorado and Kansas, and it's pretty much all flat til you get to about the middle third of the state. Like if you didn't see the sign saying "Welcome to colorful Colorado!" (or any other signs indicating where you currently are) you could be forgiven for thinking you're still in Kansas 'til the mountains start appearing over the horizon.
Eastern Colorado is just a continuation of Kansas’ geography until you get to the Front Range of the Rockies and see the mountains rising suddenly out of the plains. Mt Elbert may be over 14000 ft but it’s only around 9000 ft above nearby Denver, the mile high city on the plains at the base of the Front Range
Proud to say I got to the top of Mt Whitney! Will never do it again but glad I did it once
We bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars & you should see a map layout of Alaska over the lower 48 shows its actual massive size
My home state of Missouri has a place called Knob Lick. We're well aware of the connotations.
Yep, US elevation changes are wild. I've made the trip from high desert in Idaho (6000 ft above sea level) to the valley in Oregon (sea level) many times. Its wild to take what is called "Dead Man's Pass" and its all sunny and you could almost mistake the clouds filling the valley for the ocean, and then you descend into fog, and pop out the bottom in torrential rain. Its a trip.
For your question about what that was in the middle of the mountain in Georgia, I looked up the video and blew it up a bit so I could see it better. There looks to be some large machinery running around, so I'm going to guess that field has something to do with a mine in the area. In that portion of the US, they tend to cut the tops right off of mountains to mine coal and other minerals. It could also be a potash mining field or water reclamation, but my best guess is something to do with some sort of mining.
In PNW we have the Cascade range with 6 major peaks and one less major because on until March 27, 1980 Mount St. Helens blew its top and spread itself all over the world. That would be a great video to react to sometime.
According to mapmakers an elevation has to be a minimum of 2,000 feet to be listed as a mountain.
I went to basic training in north carolina at an elevation of around 100-200ft, then went to arizona for intel training at 5000 ft. The elevation difference was so severe that my first 2mile run, i lost 2 minutes on my time and my nose started bleeding.
You pronounced Denali right actually lol. Means the big one in native language. Miss Alaska deeply, lived there 3 years.
This video said it has been known since 2015 as Denali, before that as Mt. McKinley??? Funny, in 1982 when I lived there it was referred to as Denali. I know it as both and have since82. Guess it depends on who you talk to which name is used.
The Georgia thing you were alluding to is a parking lot for the welcome center. It is near this parking lot (about 80% of the way up the mountain) where you can get on the van shuttle to the top, or you can walk it yourself.
Yes, you can visit these high points as they are maintained for tourist visits. Most sell area souvenirs and some snacks. There are roads and parking places, but the higher the elevation, the longer the trip and you may want some snacks when you arrive. BTW, since there are no rulers tall enough to measure these areas, in the States & around the world, these heights are measured using the Mercator principle. This cylindrical map takes into account the roundness of the earth when measuring. The high points on private land, may or may not be open to the public. You'd need to speak to an area tour guide or there are lots of tourist offices that would let you know.
I looked up Brasstown Bald in Georgia on Google maps and it's the parking lot. Lol
The Mt. Washington wind speed record occurred when the jet stream (usually tens of thousands of feet up) descended very low one winter and gave them wind speeds normally only seen at 30,000 feet.
Out west, we don’t call a hill a mountain unless it’s at least 10,000 feet, so it’s comical to see they call 500 foot hills “mountains” in other states.
10,000 might be extreme. As a lifelong westerner I'd say 2-3k is "foothills" and above that is "mountain". As we saw in this video, most mountain peaks out West don't exceed 10,000 feet.
@@nonconsensualopinion CA has 42 peaks over 10k, 18 over 13k, it's hard to call 5k hills in the east "mountains". Every highest peak in the western states was well over 10k. CO has 58 peaks over 14k. When it comes to peaks JUST between 10,000 feet and 10,999 feet there's 530 just in CO
@@seethe42 @aaronschooley9103 To add to it, technically, the foothills are the elevations between 6-9,000 feet. That's according to geologists and meterologists.
Hello from Colorado. We have 58 peaks at 14,000 ft or higher!
The highest I personally have been to Haleakalā Crater in Maui, Hawaii. A 10,023 feet shield volcano while doing some photography and visiting family. (See the pic in my profile). I didn't have any altitude sickness. Matter of fact I felt no difference, but some others felt the difference a bit and couldn't walk or move much. I just stayed hydrated. I was born in VA and we have mountains so I suppose I had an advantage.
You remember denali in Alaska Because you probably recall, it's a National Park.
Omg. I’m from Louisiana, I’ve even been to Kisatchie state park… I FORGOT WE HAD A MOUNTAIN?? Louisiana is not known for being high up at all, and in fact New Orleans is below sea level (mostly), so I’m like… re-shocked all over again lol. I love y’all for this!!
11:10. That is the parking lot for those using the shuttle service to the top point in Georgia. Come visit guys, I’ll be your tour guide.
You beat me to it. I'm in Barrow County, about an hour and 45 minutes from Brasstown Bald.
@@renaissanceman7145 Hall County here
@@renaissanceman7145I’m in South Georgia, but went to college in Toccoa
@@ScottieRC I have friends and family in Fitzgerald, Tifton and Omega.
I lived in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts in my high school years in the 1970s, and we frequently visited Mount Greylock. It is really impressive!
My Wife almost rode her bike into a Volcano as a child….She was on a Hawaii bike adventure with family (barely braked in time)
I knew it! I've been in Florida for a year and some change. I said to myself I can't imagine Florida being high on the list because there are no hills here.
your guys reactions/facial expressions are too cute. lol, p.s. the pic of wheeler peak for New Mexico didn't do it any justice. i recommend googling it to see why it's so popular for skiing. also close to Taos/Angel Fire, so world famous skiing. it is stunningly beautiful, especially the drive up coming from south of it.
This! The area is beautiful and even if you didn't feel like hiking the summit, the basin below the peak at Williams Lake is beautiful and is a pretty simple hike, and still offers great views of Wheeler and the surrounding peaks.
Taos is one of my favorite places to ski and I'd definitely put it up against any of the other resorts in Colorado I've been to.
@@cacahuate505 I just love all of New Mexico. Just got back from Las Cruces yesterday. I went to college in ABQ and used to love going up to Holy Ghost Creek on weekends in the summer for that hike. So many people just think of desert 🏜 😂
Remember, the people who named Spruce Knob originally migrated from Britain ... so they might have named it that way on purpose, _knowing_ what “knob” meant back home.
Same with the French trappers that named the Tetons lol
The people who named it were Americans who’d been in the States not British.
@@marcom6089 Now you’ve got me wondering ... _when_ was that peak first named Spruce Knob? And at that time was “knob” still a naughty word in the local dialect of American English? I would have to guess the _ancestors_ of the _English_ speaking Americans in West Virginia (or of Virginia before 1863) probably came from _England_ ... but by the time they named the peak they may have forgotten, or may never have known, the alternate meaning of the word “knob” ...
In California the highest elevation is hard to tell from some the other surrounding mountains. My favorite is Mount Shasta which juts up from a very low elevation to 14,179 feet. As someone who grew up in California I really love Mt Shasta. I’ve even summited Mt Whitney
Lots of festivals on Mt Shasta and UFO lore.
The view from Whitney looking out over the desert brings the height into context much more than Shasta, not to mention the cliff drops along the trail windows which you totally miss from the Whitney Portal (eastern) side of the mountain. The hike from Guitar Lake on the west is very different
@@seethe42 I agree from the top it is gorgeous. I’ve started at Golden Trout Trailhead, went up Perrin Creek dropped over to Crabtree Lakes, camped for a few days then went to the top of Mt Whitney. The view over to Death Valley is amazing. However I’ve never been to the top of Shasta I imagine it feels amazing too, especially since it is a more challenging ascent
@@davidterry6155 We did Cottonwood around through Rock Creek, Crabtree Meadows, Guitar Lake, Whitney then out to the Portal over the course of 9 days. Beautiful trip and tasty golden trout.
Around Appalachia, knob is used for a lot of mountains, just like the hollow/holler for valleys. It probably comes from some kind of archaic English for the 1500s or something.
I enjoyed this. Found it interesting that the Wyoming town I grew up in with views of 12,000 ft. peaks sat at a higher elevation than most of the high points east of the Mississippi at 7200 ft.
OMG, You guys made me laugh so hard with your discussion of knob. Yes guys, we got it..
"This should be good!" Indeed, most of us who are U.S. citizens don't even know the answers.
Yup lol. I clicked with intense curiosity as to if I’ve been to the spot in my state or not
Sassafras Mountain here
Colorado has more mountains, big mountains, than Alaska, but above 12,000 feet, Alaska dwarfs Colorado!!
Laughing when James said we’re getting into the big boys at less than 4000 feet😂😂😂. You finally get into the big boys at Oregon.
Its still Mt. McKinley to me.
I believe Clingman's Dome has been renamed to Kuwohi. Also 7 states are visible from the top: Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama
It has not been renamed. The mountain will be called kuwohi but not clingmans dome. It will continue to be called clingmans dome
Rode my motorcycle up Mt. Evans and Pikes Peak in CO last week. Both 14ers.
Brasstown Bald, Georgia that weird looking area is parking for the overlook. You 2 kids are so silly...knob is also something that used to be on old timey TVs.
A lot of us forget Alaska too. Lol
I actually remember when Alaska and Hawaii became states.
The lowest state is Florida. It's basically a sandbar. The highest point in North America is in Alaska, at Mt. McKinley, now known as Mt. Denali.
Ha, so true! I literally live 15 minutes from the park that has the exact high point in FL
Pretty sure death valley is the lowest point and it's really close to one of the highest points in the lower 48
@@dashaus7927 california is not the lowest state for average elevation.
@@dashaus7927these are based on low averages by state. We all know Death Valley is lowest point in North America.
This video is about average elevation at all. It is about the absolute highest elevation for each state. I guess Delaware has the lowest average elevation. .....but since they were playin the highest elevation game it seemed like those were the parameters to play by and death valley gas the the lowest elevation
Don’t feel too bad about naming Colorado as “a really flat state.” The eastern half of Colorado is much like Kansas, so flat that if you stand out in a crop field, there is nothing higher than your head all the way to the horizon ... the biggest sky you can see anywhere on land.
So true, when I moved out there in the 90's I was so surprised at how flat it was since only the western edge has mountains.
It mentioned Lake Placid which is the lake from the movie Lake Placid which is several movies about a dangerous lake with deadly Crocodiles and very popular series. I suggest reacting too each one. great movies. another movie series worth watching is Tremors.
There were 4 Tremors movies.
Mt greylock is where Ivamorny is supposed to be located. It’s the American wizarding school that specializes in powerful magics and are known for having an accelerated curriculum. The mountain is constantly full of fog for the school to stay hidden.
Elevation Is Often “Gradient” .
Elevation does Not Mean you are looking down at Sea-Level over a ledge. 😂
What about Death Valley, which is below sea level at 282f (-86m), or New Orleans which sits at 8 ft (-2m) below sea level. There are also several places in the US that are at sea level: 0 ft (0m)
The passes on the Western part of Interstate 80 are higher than any peak east of the Mississippi.
A lot of the rest of western Interstate 80 is too.
Please turn up the volume of the videos y'all are watching James.....it is often hard to hear them without turning the volume up so high that you and Millie are then too loud.
Just outside of my city is a point in Rib Mountain for the longest time it was considered the highest point in Wisconsin. Timm’s Hill wasn’t recently was discovered to be the highest point . However Rib mountain still has the highest point compared to the surrounding area as the Wisconsin River valley runs close by the mountain.
Mt Mckinley!
You guys aren't the only ones who forgets about Hawaii and Alaska. Sometimes I forget those 2 states also as an American. I guess those 2 states are easy to forget since those are both not on the mainland obviously.
Mt. Hood with my state. 11,000 feet up.
Alaska has the highest point with Mt. McKinnley. Or I should say Mt. Denali
Mount Magazine is in Mount Magazine State Park. There's a lodge, cabins and a restaurant at the top, as well as a gazebo and pavilion. It's well worth the trip.
Yes, you can go to the high point of Mt. Graylock in Massachusetts. It’s absolutely beautiful!
The neighborhood I grew up on is called “Heavenly Heights” and all our streets are named after mountains. I grew up on Alps Road, my best friend grew up on Mt. Everest, and we have Mt Marcy and all other kinds of fun mountain roads throughout the neighborhood!
Vermont means Green Mountains in French. It's not uncommon for winds on Mt. Washington to blow at 30 mph and it snows EVERY month of the year. This past June was the snowiest June on record. I love hiking that mountain. The state park at the summit is where I get my coke and hot dog for my hike down the mountain.
Lots of fun watching you react. I cracked up at myself, because it took me more than half of the video to recognize the voice narrating your reaction video (I'm sure I've watched more than 50 of his videos). I follow Chicago Geographer for his Geoguessr videos. I always thought he had a great narration voice, but never heard him outside of him recording his own competitive stuff.
11:04 That's the parking lot where you get on the shuttle to the observation tower. I live about 40 minutes away. 🇺🇸
Maine's Mt. Katahdin is one of the best climbs, but not easy to climb and considered the toughest on the Appalachian trail mountains, and you must be very good at climbing and ok with sheer drops with part of the climb including a stretch called Knifes edge.
I live near Brasstown Bald. The part you pause and ask about is the parking lot (car park). There's a road you can drive up the mountain and that is where you can park near the top.
There's also a trail there. So people park there to go hiking on Jack's knob trailhead.
If you include windchill, the coldest temperature ever recorded was on Mt Washington in NH. -108 Fahrenheit which is roughly -78 Celsius.
There are 50 14000 foot mountains in colorado
54 to be specific, unless four have eroded below in the last couple of decades.
@@dgpatter Actually there's 58.
Look for pictures of the view from Mt. Mitchell. You can see a lot of the Blue Ridge Mountains from the top.
Yes , you can visit Mount Greylock in Massachusetts. The drive up has beautiful views in the fall for foliage. I do know what a knob is in British English...lol.
I live in Central New Jersey about 5 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. We're sitting around 10 feet above sea level.
Traveling nortwest from me towards the Delaware River the elevation climbs to over 1,000 feet. You can feel your ears pop from the change
You can hear your ears pop when going over Hopland grade, the road from Mendocino county to Lake county.
Just as a point of reference... A lot of us have been watching British Comedies for a very long time (PBS has been showing them since at least the 70s). We have an idea what a knob is ;)
Same as a ‘todger’!
I learned "knob" from Bob and Doug McKenzie.
🎵Coo coo coo COo coO COO COO! 🎶
A song from Discworld: "A wizard's staff has a knob on the end..."
Living in the West, my house sits at a higher elevation than most of the mountains up to half-way point. I'm on a bench, so I am on a slightly higher level than the valley (approximately 4000 feet sea level at my place and probably about 3200-3500 in the valley), but the mountains are at least 2000-3000 feet higher, and they are on the smaller end.
Arkansas has the Ozark mountains.
I went to college there. Grew up in New Jersey.
Hey guys, North Carolinian here (now living in Utah). I've climbed both Clingmans Dome and Mount Mitchell, and Clingmans Dome is the harder of the two because of the steep gradient. They're about 7 miles apart from each other, and Clingmans Dome actually is just across the North Carolina border in Tennessee, about a 5 minute drive across the state line.
One other thing about Alaska is the US bought Alaska from Russia for $ 7,200,000. Cheers
When i was a kid we drove up Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. not sure how the road to drive to the top is these days but, when i was a kid it was scary as hell. barely enough room for 2 way traffic but there was. no guardrails from what i remember. was just you and the edge. yes, it was real windy when we got to the top. there were pictures of all the cars that fell off the road and down the mountain being rescued lol.
I've been on the Mt. Washington auto road recently and it's still pretty scary. My partner drove and my dad was in the front so he could take video of the trip up. My mom isn't a fan of heights so she kept her eyes closed most of the way up and didn't want to get out of the car when we reached the top. I've also gone up the Mt. Washington Cog Rail to the summit and that was a fun ride. The seats in the rail car are tilted so when you are going up, you don't fall out of the seat.
It used to be like that in the northeastern part of Yellowstone National Park. Never going up there again. LOL Once was enough.
@@rhiahlMT lol, i hear ya. notice that i said when i was a kid. never once had an urge to go there again. lol
I lived in Dublin, N. H. A year, and there is a sign in the middle of the road that stated that is was the highest elevated town in the us or nh, can't remember which. Are you familiar with it?
@@spikebeans9563 No, never heard about that one. was probably the highest elevated town in N.H.
laughing at spruce knob was hilarious
MT Graylock, you can drive up or hike, I have hiked it a few times. The tower was close both times I hiker it.
Glad my State of Washington was in the top ones.
Mount Rainier is the most "Prominent" Mountain in the US outside of Alaska.
Knobs is a word we use for low, sharply peaked mountains and Hills.
Mt. Washington does not play around. Last year they had 8 HOURS of 130+ wind speeds on a day where the temperature at ground level was bone chilling -30 so the Summit hit the insane -101 for the wind chill. Still not even the coldest day they've had. The mountain has violent winds all the time but the views are amazing on a clear day.
FYI: Knob is a rounded usually isolated hill or mountain,
Look up the 4 corners in the western USA
A knob is a rounded prominent hill in the states. clingmans Dome, mount Ranier, Denali and Mauna Kea are in National parks.Mount Hood is in a National Forest
Here in Indiana we have Gobblers Knob.⩍
It's also on a gearshift.
I've visited Mt. Greylock and Mt. Washington. Mount Washington is known for having "The Worst Weather In The World" I went up to the summit by the cog railroad. Quite the experience, and bit scary going back down. That day the weather was bad as per usual, 45 ℉ fog drizzle, winds at 40mph. This was in early September. Then the next day, I tried going up by car, but the roads were closed that day because the fog was so thick the visibility was only 4 feet and I think the winds were higher.
You can definitely visit that monument on mt Greylock in Massachusetts. I have been there several times. And if the weather is cooperative you can witch people jump off the side and fly down in hang gliders!
My family and I live at the base Mt Greylock in MA. you can drive or hike to the top! You can go in the tower as well!
I live in Budd Lake NJ (Northwest NJ) and have been to High Point a few times. It is about 30 minutes from my house. I have some great pictures up where the obelisk is. You can walk around the whole thing. When you get to that area you can look out on each side & see Pennsylvania, New York & you are in New Jersey already. Look it up on Google maps then go down to street level you can walk up to the obelisk for the view as though you were there. It is really a great view in the Fall when the trees are turning . I have some good memories. The first time I went was with my boyfriend. We packed a few sandwiches & something to drink for a lunch at High Point. It was fun & beautiful as are you both.
Yes its rock ,but when you get up high enough it's a different atmosphere and you'll encounter snow
My bucket list includes climbing my state of Utah's highest point, King's Peak.
Utah here too. I couldn't climb it though because of feet pain issues. Not sure that's something I'd want to do anyways. LOL.
I thought they were going to use the highest land point if it was the highest elevation if not use the highest building in that state
Rhode island is the smallest state. Delaware is the 2nd smallest state. I've climbed Mt katahdin in Maine that's my home state and parts of Mt Washington in New Hampshire. The US is sometimes referred to as the lower 48. That excludes Alaska and Hawaii because obviously they're not connected to rest of the states.
Yes, you can drive up to Mt. Greylock