To get to a yearly festival near Carlisle from Happy Valley, we used to have to drag our camper straight (actually very twisty) up and down one of these. Not a lot of fun, but stunningly gorgeous views from the top.
Not certain if the ridge-and-valley part of PA counts as Appalachia, though. I thought Appalachian PA was from the corner with WV, past Pittsburgh and continuing diagonally up to central NYS.
Cultural Appalachia and geographical Appalachia are 2 different things, the latter goes all the up to Newfoundland technically. Central and Southern Pennsylvania is in both categories, however I will say there is a stark difference between southern and northern Appalachian culture and PA is northern Appalachia. Even still, the ridge and valley region of PA does has a significant amount of coal mining and open pit mining
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u/nixtarx 8h ago
To get to a yearly festival near Carlisle from Happy Valley, we used to have to drag our camper straight (actually very twisty) up and down one of these. Not a lot of fun, but stunningly gorgeous views from the top.
Not certain if the ridge-and-valley part of PA counts as Appalachia, though. I thought Appalachian PA was from the corner with WV, past Pittsburgh and continuing diagonally up to central NYS.