Catoctin Mountain

Catoctin Mountain
Catoctin Mountain vista (from Chimney Rock)
Highest point
Elevation	1,880 ft (570 m)[1]
Prominence	404 ft (123 m)
Coordinates	39°38′52″N 77°27′59″W / 39.64778°N 77.46639°W / 39.64778; -77.46639[2]
Geography
Catoctin Mountain Frederick County, Maryland / Loudoun County, Virginia, U.S.
Parent range	Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian Mountain Range
Topo map	USGS Blue Ridge Summit
Climbing
Easiest route	road (restricted access)

Catoctin Mountain, along with the geologically associated Bull Run Mountains, forms the easternmost mountain ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are in turn a part of the Appalachian Mountains range. The ridge runs northeast–southwest for about 50 miles (80 km) departing from South Mountain near Emmitsburg, Maryland, and running south past Leesburg, Virginia, where it disappears into the Piedmont in a series of low-lying hills near New Baltimore, Virginia. The ridge forms the eastern rampart of the Loudoun and Middletown valleys.