The trail ascends Blood Mountain, elevation 4,461 feet, over 2.4 miles from Neels Gap.
Hill City, elevation 5,000 feet, is near Mount Rushmore and other attractions and is home to an antique steam train.
In Thoreau's day, the only structure atop Mt. Greylock — elevation 3,491 feet — was a meteorological tower.
Its elevation (3,760 feet [1,146 metres] above sea level) gives it a perpetually moderate summer climate.
Buenos Aires The Catedral Metropolitana The pope was archbishop here from 2001 until his elevation this year.
Its elevation – 2,510 meters above sea level – and deep winter snow makes it a remote, if beautiful, location, studded with Aspen trees and colourful clapboard houses.
They actually run not one hill but two -- Rocky Mountain (elevation 1,063 feet) and Drag Hill (1,074 feet) -- and they do it in three nonstop segments.
The family followed the rail of the South Rim along Hopi Point, elevation 7,071 feet, where the rim overlooks a 5,000-foot 5,000-foot
The five-mile trail leads first to Mount Kephart, to an overlook called the Jump-Off, then to Mount Le Conte, elevation 6,593 feet.
Despite its low elevation — 1,180 feet — frequent snowfall means three things are a necessity: winter-driving skills, a reliable snowplow service and a good source of dry firewood.
