What Are the Major Mountain Ranges In the United States?

There are five major mountain ranges in the United States:

1. the Appalachian Mountains in the East;
2. the Rocky Mountains in the Southwest and West, from Colorado to the Canadian border and beyond;
3. the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest;
4. the Sierra Nevada in the far West;
5. and the Alaska Range, a segment of the Coast Range, in Alaska.