Tri-State Peak is a mountain located in the

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains. The park lies ...

, near the "saddle" of the gap. It gets its name from being on the

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of the states of

Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 36th-largest by ...

, and

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...

. The elevation at the tri-state marker is . The marker can be accessed via the "tri-state peak trail," (via connections with the Gap trail and the Object Lesson Road trail) and is about from the park's visitor's center. The site also includes a marker denoting the location as being on the " Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665," which was marked by the

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. File:tri-state-peak-bordermarker.jpg, Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665 plaque File:Tri State Peak Tennessee.jpg, Marker for Tennessee at Tri-State Peak File:Tripoint marker KY-TN-VA.jpg, Marker for the KY-TN-VA tripoint

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