The end of the Blue Ridge Mountains

Caesar’s Head and Table Rock State Parksin SC protect great rock outcroppings over 2000 feet high that mark the end of the mountain chain.  We have driven and hiked miles and miles along the ridges but until we wondered up here I hadn’t given much thought to the fact that they do indeed end somewhere.  Great bald escarpments stand huge among the pines with the Piedmont rolling on beyond their feet.  I remember a very similar realization when we looked up at the edge of the Colorado Plateau and the end of theRockieschain.  This is remarkable geology on a very grand scale.

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