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- Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway
- A Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” that explores the great diversity of forests in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- North Carolina's lonely mountains
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 1
- One of the most striking sights on North Carolina's inner Piedmont is the solitary peaks or ridges that loom above the plateau's average elevation. Some of these are among the state's most visited parks: Hanging Rock, Pilot Mountain, Crowders Mountain, Stone...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Journey to the top of the world: Climbing Mount Everest
- This slideshow tells the story of a North Carolina adventurer's ascent of Mount Everest in photos, video, and text, including excerpts from his journal.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont
- This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” explores the geology of North Carolina's monadnocks, mountains that rise individually above the surrounding topogaphy.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Mountains
- A view of mountains from above them. The mountains below the photographer are very green and have a couple roads winding around them. About half way up the photo, there is a layer of fog that makes only the shapes of the other mountains visible. The fog gets...
- Format: image/photograph
- Into the countryside
- In The Ramayana, page 7.2
- Emerald Buddha Temple mural painting of a landscape with mountains, trees, fields, and river. Boulders and small mountains rest in the center of the scene, while a river, rectangular crop fields, and more mountains are visible in the background. Leafy trees...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge
- A Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” that explores the geology and botanical diversity of the Jocassee Gorges region of North Carolina's mountains.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Bull Mountain, Virginia
- Bull Mountain, in Patrick County, Virginia, seen from a distance.
- Format: image/photograph
- Piedmont sands and clays
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 1
- North Carolina's landmass has twice been subjected to major bouts of mountain building followed by erosion. The mountain building events have been described in another field trip in this series, the Roan Mountain Highlands. The remnants of the erosion of these...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Lake and mountains
- A color photograph of a lake beneath mountains. The mountains far away have snow on top of them. There is also a closer mountain that goes straight into the water.
- Format: image/photograph
- The forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains
- In Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway, page 1
- The relationship between elevation and forest types is one of the most striking features of the ecology of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The major determinent of this relationship is climate: Average temperatures in the Blue Ridge decline about 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Lake below mountains
- A large, dark glass lake expands beneath a ridge of grandiose snow capped mountains. A row of light colored houses follows the curve of the lake beneath the slope of the mountains. A road winds beside the houses.
- Format: image/photograph
- View from Black Mountain ridge
- Photograph from the top of a ridge in the Black Mountains, taken at Mount Mitchell State Park. The Black Mountains — the highest mountains east of the Mississippi River — are part of the Blue Ridge mountain chain, and are a subrange of the Appalachians....
- Format: image/photograph
- Sauratown Mountains
- In Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont, page 4
- One of the best places to see real monadnocks in North Carolina's Piedmont is in the Sauratown Mountains north of Winston-Salem in Stokes and Surrey counties. Here are pinnacles and two high ridges that stretch west southwest from Hanging Rock and include...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Pine Trees in South Mountains State Park
- These are pine trees lit by the sunset in South Mountains State Park. South Mountains State Park is the largest in North Carolina at 17,000 acres.
- Format: image/photograph
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park Mountain Farm Museum
- Historic buildings, farm animals, and demonstrations can be seen at the Smoky Mountains National Park Mountian Farm Museum.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Dawn
- Dawn in Turkey over a mountain range. The sun is just rising behind one of the mountains, and the sky brightens from dark orange to white, starting at the edge of the mountains.
- Format: image/photograph
- An attendant on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
- An attendant on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad watches a field roll past outside the window of a train car. Retired citizens in the area work as attendants for the railroad. The train trip offers tunnels and view of river gorges and mountains.
- Format: image/photograph
- Forested foothills and mountains rising behind crop fields near Ninh Binh
- Forested foothills and mountains rise behind crop fields near Ninh Binh. Behind the canal in the foreground is a planted field. A coconut palm tree is visible at the center. Fog or humid air envelops the mountains in the background.
- Format: image/photograph
- Up the river
- A boat leaves the shore into a river beneath the mountains. The other side of the lake has lots of green leafy trees with mountains emerging from the top of them. The river has brown, glassy water. The shore is sandy and golden.
- Format: image/photograph
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