Southwest Virginia Is Hiding Something Most Americans Never Notice

Southwest Virginia is hiding far more than coal mines and mountain music. In this video, Professor Amos Whitaker, a retired geography teacher, shares 25 remarkable geographic facts about Southwest Virginia that even many lifelong Virginians have never heard. From mountains older than the Rockies and the largest canyon east of the Mississippi, to a tunnel carved by a creek, a hidden bowl-shaped valley, Ice Age fossils, ancient salt, and the birthplace of country music, this is the Virginia most Americans never notice. In this video: Mount Rogers and the Ice Age forest on its summit Grayson Highlands and its wild ponies Natural Tunnel and Burke's Garden The Breaks, the "Grand Canyon of the South" Saltville, the New River, and the Clinch River Coal, elk, the Bristol Sessions, and more Which fact surprised you the most? Let us know in the comments, and subscribe for more hidden geography from across America. #Geography #Virginia #Appalachia #SouthwestVirginia #AmericanGeography #Documentary