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Where are the hills in Winston? It has been 10 years since I have been up there but I don't remember the hills.
Where are the hills? Umm, everywhere. How can one answer a question like that? Winston is pretty hilly...elevation in Forsyth County ranges from 700 feet to 1,100 feet above sea level. Hanes Mall is about 800 feet, downtown is 925, Smith Reynolds airport is about 1,000 feet. Hills everywhere.
to me 'hilly' means something like Birmingham or the north Atlanta suburbs. I know WS isn't pancake flat but I wouldn't have called it hilly. I was thinking that I missed an area of the metro.
I believe the Triad is on a plateua which means it can have some elevation but still be relatively flat.
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to me 'hilly' means something like Birmingham or the north Atlanta suburbs. I know WS isn't pancake flat but I wouldn't have called it hilly. I was thinking that I missed an area of the metro.
I believe the Triad is on a plateua which means it can have some elevation but still be relatively flat.
No, read what Lucky Dog wrote. He's absolutely correct.
The Triad is in the Piedmont which means foothills... not on a plateau. Have no idea where you got that from. And as you go west and northwest, it gets hillier, so W-S has more hills than Greensboro.
a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
The definition of piedmont also includes:
The name "Piedmont" comes from the French term for the same physical region, literally meaning "foothill", ultimately from Latin "pedemontium", meaning "the foot of the mountains".
I have lived in numerous cities in the Piedmont, and I am aware of the literal meaning. But keep in mind cities like Columbia and Raleigh are in the Piedmont and not near the mountains. They are on the eastern edge of the Piedmont, at the fall line.
The foothills is really describing a small transition region between the Blue Ridge mountains and the western part of the Piedmont plateau. W-S is not in the foothills because the BLue Ridge mountains cannot be seen from it. Mount Airy and Elkin are the two closest foothill cities to W-S. Greenville SC is often said to be a foothills city because you can see the Blue Ridge Mountains but it isn't right at the base of the Blue Ridge so it is more correct to say it is in the Piedmont.
I would say W-S has gentle rolling hills. Greenville has bigger hills and even a little mountain but I still wouldn't call it hilly in general. The highest hill in W-S that I could find on Google maps appears to be the Oak Summit area.
to me 'hilly' means something like Birmingham or the north Atlanta suburbs. I know WS isn't pancake flat but I wouldn't have called it hilly. I was thinking that I missed an area of the metro.
I believe the Triad is on a plateua which means it can have some elevation but still be relatively flat.
Visit again. I'll take you running. And biking. There's a reason Winston is a popular area for serious cycling. It's quite hilly, especially to the north and west.
I have lived in numerous cities in the Piedmont, and I am aware of the literal meaning. But keep in mind cities like Columbia and Raleigh are in the Piedmont and not near the mountains. They are on the eastern edge of the Piedmont, at the fall line.
The foothills is really describing a small transition region between the Blue Ridge mountains and the western part of the Piedmont plateau. W-S is not in the foothills because the BLue Ridge mountains cannot be seen from it. Mount Airy and Elkin are the two closest foothill cities to W-S. Greenville SC is often said to be a foothills city because you can see the Blue Ridge Mountains but it isn't right at the base of the Blue Ridge so it is more correct to say it is in the Piedmont.
I would say W-S has gentle rolling hills. Greenville has bigger hills and even a little mountain but I still wouldn't call it hilly in general. The highest hill in W-S that I could find on Google maps appears to be the Oak Summit area.
Winston Salem is hilly. Baptist is literally on a hill. Open your eyes. They're everywhere.
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