What is the highest point east of the Mississippi River?

Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland eastern North America. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina, in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians, and about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of Asheville. It is protected by Mount Mitchell State Park and surrounded by the Pisgah National Forest. Mount Mitchell's elevation is 6,684 feet (2,037 m) above sea level.

The mountain was named after Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who first explored the Black Mountain region in 1835, and determined that the height of the range exceeded by several hundred feet that of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, commonly thought at the time to be the highest point east of the Rocky Mountains. Mitchell fell to his death at nearby Mitchell Falls in 1857, having returned to verify his earlier measurements.

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Pat Wells

The highest peaks in the U.S. are in the western states (including Alaska).

Lawanta

Beats out Clingmans Dome by 41 feet!

Al Breyette

If you east from the Mississippi River you will eventually come to Mt. Everest. Need to specify what country because not everyone in the world know where the Mississippi River is

rkcorrigan

East of the amississippi River in the USA? In North America? In the world?

fdeisner

Ken Putnam, I agree. They're also mountains in South America over 20,000 ft that would be east of the Mississippi.

filmnut

I also lived in Portsmouth NH as a child. Learning to ski on “Boilerplates Ice”. Made me an excellent skier. I just happened to know the answer to that question, having missed it one night playing Trivial Pursuit.