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Sinking Creek Mountain is a protected wildland in western Virginia’s George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, valued as a roadless natural area within the Sinking Creek Valley Cluster. Its long ridge rises to about 3,600 feet, with features including Chimney Rock, Earn Knob, and Meadow Creek Falls. The area is especially notable for a belt of prehistoric landslides along the mountain’s eastern side, among the largest in the eastern United States, which created bogs, springs, sag ponds, altered soils, and diverse habitats. Old-growth forest, black bear habitat, and traces of early twentieth-century timbering remain, while regional memory also connects the mountain to Addison Caldwell’s 1872 walk to enroll at Virginia Tech.
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