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From West Virginia north, the rich diversity of Appalachian cove forests slowly gives way to the "spruce-moose" country of the north woods. The celebrated Monongahela National Forest covers much of WV's northeast, where modest peaks and ancient rivers create a folded landscape of long ridges. White Mountains National Forest sprawls over 770,000 acres of New Hampshire and Maine, with scenery that looks a lot like North Carolina from a car window. Along the vast trail network, however, are bogs of black spruce and tamarack, treeless alpine zones, U-shaped glacier valleys, and hundreds of lakes and ponds that offer a landscape unlike anything south of New York. Click on thumbnails for larger image |
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