A few of the words
- DENALI
- At 20,310 feet, Denali in Alaska is the highest peak in North America — its name comes from the Koyukon Athabascan word meaning 'the high one'.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- WHITNEY
- Mount Whitney in California's Sierra Nevada reaches 14,505 feet, making it the highest summit in the contiguous United States.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TIMBERLINE
- The timberline — the elevation above which trees can no longer survive — varies across the country, sitting as high as 11,500 feet in the southern Rockies.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- APPALACHIA
- The Appalachian Mountains stretch roughly 1,500 miles from Alabama north to Maine, and geologists estimate they formed over 480 million years ago.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Mountains & Ranges word search — free and large-print — roam the Rockies, the Cascades, and the ancient Appalachian high country.
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From the worn, rounded shoulders of the Appalachians — among the oldest mountain systems on Earth — to the jagged, glacier-carved peaks of the Rockies and Cascades, American high country spans a staggering range of age, scale, and character. A hiker crossing the Continental Divide feels the whole continent tipping away in two directions at once, every raindrop choosing its ocean. Up above the timberline, where the trees give way to tundra and bare rock, the air is thin and the silence is enormous.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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