<P> The dissected plateau area, while not actually made up of geological mountains, is popularly called "mountains," especially in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, and while the ridges are not high, the terrain is extremely rugged . In Ohio and New York, some of the plateau has been glaciated, which has rounded off the sharp ridges, and filled the valleys to some extent . The glaciated regions are usually referred to as hill country rather than mountains . </P> <P> The Appalachian region is generally considered the geographical divide between the eastern seaboard of the United States and the Midwest region of the country . The Eastern Continental Divide follows the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia . </P> <P> The Appalachian Trail is a 2,175 - mile (3,500 km) hiking trail that runs all the way from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, passing over or past a large part of the Appalachian system . The International Appalachian Trail is an extension of this hiking trail into the Canadian portion of the Appalachian range in New Brunswick and Quebec . </P> <P> The Appalachian belt includes, with the ranges enumerated above, the plateaus sloping southward to the Atlantic Ocean in New England, and south - eastward to the border of the coastal plain through the central and southern Atlantic states; and on the north - west, the Allegheny and Cumberland plateaus declining toward the Great Lakes and the interior plains . A remarkable feature of the belt is the longitudinal chain of broad valleys, including The Great Appalachian Valley, which in the southerly sections divides the mountain system into two unequal portions, but in the northernmost lies west of all the ranges possessing typical Appalachian features, and separates them from the Adirondack group . The mountain system has no axis of dominating altitudes, but in every portion the summits rise to rather uniform heights, and, especially in the central section, the various ridges and intermontane valleys have the same trend as the system itself . None of the summits reaches the region of perpetual snow . </P>

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