Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- ROCKIES
- The Rocky Mountains run roughly 3,000 miles from northern British Columbia all the way down to New Mexico, one of the longest continuous mountain ranges in North America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CAIRN
- A cairn is a stack of stones left by hikers to mark a trail or a summit. Some cairns in the White Mountains of New Hampshire have guided walkers since the 1800s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- DIVIDE
- The Continental Divide traces the backbone of the Rockies, determining which way every raindrop flows, east toward the Atlantic or west toward the Pacific.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SCREE
- Scree, the loose, sliding rock fragments that blanket mountain slopes, is formed over centuries as ice and frost slowly crack apart the peaks above.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Mountains & Peaks word search, free and large-print, where thin air, granite ledges, and an endless sky meet the trail.
About Mountains & Peaks
Stand at the treeline and the world opens up, scree slopes dropping away on one side, a ribbon of trail winding back through the timber below. The Rockies stretch north and south like a spine, while the ancient Appalachians roll in softer, greener waves from Georgia to Maine. Whether you reach a summit by boots alone or catch the view from a mountain lodge, that first glimpse of an unbroken ridge against a blue sky is something you carry with you long after you've come back down.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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