# Mount Rogers

- **Country:** United States
- **Coordinates:** 36.659841, -81.544558
- **Age:** 760 Ma.
- **Topo:** USGS Whitetop Mountain
- **Type:** Extinct stratovolcano complex
- **Range:** Blue Ridge Mountains
- **Listing:** U.S. state high point 19th
- **Location:** {{ubl
- **Elevation Ft:** 5729
- **Easiest Route:** Hike via Appalachian Trail spur
- **Mountain Type:** Extinct stratovolcano complex
- **Prominence Ft:** 2449
- **Label Position:** top

Mount Rogers is the highest natural point in Virginia, United States, with a summit elevation of above mean sea level. The summit straddles the border of Grayson and Smyth Counties, Virginia, about WSW of Troutdale, Virginia. Most of the mountain is contained within the Lewis Fork Wilderness, while the entire area is part of the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, which itself is a part of the Jefferson National Forest.

![Photo of Mount Rogers](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/2017-05-16_09_51_01_View_west-northwest_toward_Mount_Rogers_from_the_summit_of_Pine_Mountain_within_the_Mount_Rogers_National_Recreation_Area_in_Grayson_County%2C_Virginia.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rogers (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)