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Cove Mountain, Pennsylvania

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Pair of mountain ridge lines in Perry County, Pennsylvania
View of Marysville from Cove Mountain

Cove Mountain is a pair of mountain ridge lines in Perry County, south central Pennsylvania, in the United States. A part of the Ridge-and-Valley region of the Appalachian Mountains, Cove Mountain is a syncline that is located near the borough of Duncannon, and is approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the state capital of Harrisburg. A 353-acre (143 ha) portion of the mountain was purchased by the Pennsylvania chapter of the Nature Conservancy in 2017, and is operated as a nature preserve that is open to the public.

References

  1. "Cove Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  2. "Cove Mountain / Hawk Rocks : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering". SummitPost. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  3. Ryan, Jim (25 February 2017). "Nature Conservancy will protect ridge in Cove Mountain Preserve". Perry County Times. Retrieved 9 December 2019.

40°21′09″N 77°05′23″W / 40.35250°N 77.08972°W / 40.35250; -77.08972


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