Member Login. The following was included in TCTA's 2015-16 Survival Guide, the ultimate reference tool for Texas educators, and is current as of September 2015 but is subject to change.
The Allegheny Mountains run diagonally from the southwest to the northeast with piedmont and coastal plains in the southeast triangle. The Allegheny Front, as it's called, cuts a diagonal line across the state. In the northwest, the plateau falls to the Lake Erie lowlands and, finally, Lake Erie. ( Pennsylvania Close-up)
The significant mountains ranges within Virginia include the Allegheny Mountains, a range that stretches north into Pennsylvania, and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains that extend south through North Carolina, and on into Georgia.uch of Virginia is a hilly (heavily forested) mountainous landscape, one dominated by ranges of the Appalachian Mountains that extend through the western half of the state; literally covering its entire western border with Kentucky and West Virginia, and a small portion of its northern border with Maryland.