USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3, 000 miles (4, 800 kilometers) in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Middle Rocky Mountains province is located in the western United States with a major portion in Wyoming. Several extensions of the Middle Rockies spread into Montana, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho.

Detailed explanation-3: -Where are the Rocky Mountains? The Rocky Mountains of North America, or the Rockies, stretch from northern Alberta and British Columbia in Canada southward to New Mexico in the United States, a distance of some 3, 000 miles (4, 800 kilometres). In places the system is 300 or more miles wide.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Rocky Mountains are a western region of the United States of America, as well as a small section of Canada that offer skiing and snowboarding in the winter, and road and mountain biking, hiking, camping, kayaking, horse-back riding, and white water rafting in the summer.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range runs north-to-south along the west coast of the United States mostly in the state of California and some in the state of Nevada.