Closest/Nearest mountains to Nederland? (Houston, Dallas: home, high school, live in)

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by gabetx

There is no definition for a mountain. So technically the Texas hill country can be counted as mountains. So I'd say anywhere from a 3 to 4 hour drive.

There is a definition for a mountain and as nice as the Hill Country of Texas is, it isn't an area of mountains. Maybe that's why it's named Hill Country and not Mountain Country. Mountains have an altitude usually greater than 2,000 feet.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by WillysB

Or you could make a run for the Smokeys, about 850 miles to Knoxville, Tn.

They get my vote!

[BobTex]

Real mountains with real snow ... roughly 20 hours to northern New Mexico! The Smokeys are nice but way to crowded and too commercialized. My dad lives 20 miles from Gatlinburg. My father's side of the family settled in the foothills there in the early 1800's. Hard to believe how its changed even in the last 15 years.

[mrkool]

At first I thought this post was a joke, but maybe it's not. It would be hard to get further from mountains than the Golden Triangle area.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by BobTex

Real mountains with real snow ... roughly 20 hours to northern New Mexico! The Smokeys are nice but way to crowded and too commercialized. My dad lives 20 miles from Gatlinburg. My father's side of the family settled in the foothills there in the early 1800's. Hard to believe how its changed even in the last 15 years.

The Sierra Blanca Mountains right outside Ruidoso are real mountains, too. 12,000ft max elevation, timberline, snow-capped peaks. New Mexico doesn't have any 14ers so you can either take a 16-20 hour car ride to Taos and see 13,000ft Wheeler Peak or drive about 15 hours to Ruidoso and see 12,000ft Sierra Blanca Peak. Granted, if you go to Taos you can also stop outside Los Alamos and take in the Valles Caldera and Bandelier National Monument, make a casino stop in Pojoaque, and spend some time in Santa Fe.

If you go to Ruidoso, on your way back you can detour a little to Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan.

[WillysB]

The Sierra Blanca Mountains right outside Ruidoso are real mountains

Cloudcroft is a sweet little hideaway.

[gabetx]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

There is a definition for a mountain and as nice as the Hill Country of Texas is, it isn't an area of mountains. Maybe that's why it's named Hill Country and not Mountain Country. Mountains have an altitude usually greater than 2,000 feet.

Actually there is no REAL definition of a mountain. Look it up yourself. In the hill country near Kingsland there is some mountain. Its Mount something... I forgot.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by gabetx

Actually there is no REAL definition of a mountain. Look it up yourself. In the hill country near Kingsland there is some mountain. Its Mount something... I forgot.

The dictionary says........

a natural elevation of the earth's surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2000 ft. (610 m).

The encyclopedia says........

A mountain is a land form that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area, with a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill but there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill although a mountain usually has an identifiable summit.

There is a difference, and I believe most people recognize such as being so. Show me a summit in the hills and I'll really try to accept it as a mountain.

[gabetx]

Originally Posted by Canine*Castle

The dictionary says........

a natural elevation of the earth's surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2000 ft. (610 m).

The encyclopedia says........

A mountain is a land form that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area, with a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill but there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill although a mountain usually has an identifiable summit.

There is a difference, and I believe most people recognize such as being so. Show me a summit in the hills and I'll really try to accept it as a mountain.

... You really dont have to make a big deal out of this. Lol. I am just saying there is no definite definition of a mountain. If someone wants to say a certain hill in the hill country is a mountain then they aren't wrong. If someone wants to call a mountain in the Rockies a hill, they aren't wrong. Yes there is a difference between a hill and mountain visually. I am sure I'd know, I have been to the Rockies, Appalachians, Bavarian Alps, Sierra Nevada's, and the Texas hill country. They are all very different. but technically speaking, If you wanted to, you could call the hills in the hill country mountains. I think they are just hills, although there was one hill near Kingsland that looked like it could have been called a mountain. I wouldn't think somebody is wrong if they would have wanted to call it a mountain. It sort of resembled Mount Staffelberg, (which barely rises 1,000 ft and is titled a mountain), in Bad Staffelstein, Germany where my grandma lives. Anyways, I really think if you want a little hill to be a mountain then so be it. Its not wrong. Just my opinion.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by NIS350ZTT

What are the closest/nearest mountains to Nederland/Port Arthur/Beaumont?

Are you serious? Texas has mountains, but they're waayy out in West Texas.

Arkansas would probably have the closest mountain range to Southeast Texas.