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)
Elk Mountain history dates back to 1959, when it became one of Pennsylvania's first commercial ski areas. The slopes offer some of the most challenging terrain in the region with distinctive character of surrounding evergreens and has the highest lift-serviced peak in eastern Pennsylvania.