As a supplement to the landforms of Tennessee,
the table above lists various landforms (waterfalls, peaks, balds,
rock formations, sinkholes)
in the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Information on each landform includes maps, GPS waypoint (latitude/longitude), and the occasional
picture.
In the Smokies there are 17 peaks over 6000', 8 balds, 6 arches, 2 large
sinkholes, and more than
90 waterfalls.
The higest point in the park is Clingmans Dome
(6643', Cherokee name: Kuwohi),
and the lowest point is along the park boundary with Chilhowee Lake (842').
Some of these landforms are off-trail, contact the Park Rangers regarding
off-trail or manway ventures.
Corrections and additions are welcomed.
For more information see
- clickable GSMNP trail map (1997) zoom/pan
- clickable
Google
★
map/image/topo
★
with landforms, trails, and campsites
or iPhone map
- GSMNP
hiking trails mileage, climb, elevation profiles, and map locator
and stream crossings.
Steepest half-mile sections:
- Google Earth KML file gsmnp.kmz for GSMNP landforms or
camp.kmz campsites
or trails.kmz trails (2/22/08)
- GSMNP landforms and campsites
ESRI map arcgis
or leafletjs GSMNP map
- clickable 1964 USGS topo
quadrangle map of GSMNP, zoom/pan
- GSMNP
park maps
(pdf's)
- GSMNP campsite locations maps and GPS waypoints for GSMNP
campgrounds, shelters, and backcountry campsites
- GSMNP GPS waypoints:
landforms gsmnp.gpx,
campsites camp.gpx,
trail heads/junctions trlwpts.gpx,
GPS trail tracks
- GSMNP mobile phone Avenza topo maps
- GSMNP
road, trail, and campsite closures
or twitter
-
weather
and snow depth at various locations within the Smokies
or here
or
and
forecast
-
weather at Cove Mountain
tower
and air quality/weather at
Cades Cove or
Look Rock
or
Clingmans Dome
- historical
weather data graphs, temperature and precipitation (
Tremont)
and weather.com graphs
and monthly
average at Gatlinburg and Clingmans Dome
and
here
- mountain webcams
GSMNP
webcams
of
Gatlinburg webcams
Newfound Gap webcam
Clingmans Dome webcam
Look Rock (2880') view of Smokies (15 min updates)
Purchase Knob (4900', NC) (looking NE)
WBIR skycam looking at Mt LeConte from west of Gatlinburg
Mt Pisgah (5700')
view of Cold Mountain
in Shining Rock wilderness
elk cam Hatfield Knob, Campbell County
more mountain web cams
- Mt LeConte lodge and daily
blog from caretakers
- Tennessee landforms arches, waterfalls, chimneys
with maps/waypoints/pics
- brown book:
Hiking Trails of the Smokies
trail descriptions, map, elevation profiles
- 1973 blue book:
Hiker's Guide to the Smokies
and its map:
west
middle
east
-
Hiker's Guide to the Smokies
or Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains
-
Day Hiker's Guide To All The Trails In The Smoky Mountains 1060 miles in
75 day hikes
- Smokies
geology
- geology studies and maps
-
geology of Cades Cove
- Mt LeConte geology and
geological map
- geologic maps
and geologic map
2013
and more geology maps
- Smoky Mountain caves
and
geologic resource inventory (2000)
- vegetation maps from UGa study, overstory (pdf) and
understory
(pdf) pg 24
- Cades Cove cultural resources
- book
A Roadside Guide to the Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Survey Bulletin 587
Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
and another
- igneous rock near Mt
Collins (not visually significant)
- locations of
springs along the trails
and Fittified Spring
- GSMA
books and things
-
Friends of GSMNP support the park, license plates
-
Smoky Mountains Hiking Club
and Bob Lochbaum's
How far is it gps'n and measurin' the trails
-
Carolina Mountain Club hikes GPS route files
- 2/22/08 GSMNP/Lochbaum trails.zip Maptech trail track
file (gsmnp.txf)
or GPX version trailsgpx.zip
or individual trail gpx tracks (gpx)
- 1995 NPS GSMNP
GIS data and Maptech
smtrails.txf '95 trail track file
(1.3 MB)
- Google Earth has a layer with the
GSMNP trails, you can add landforms and campsites with the following KML files
gsmnp.kmz and camp.kmz
or 2/22/08 trails trails.kmz
- Smoky Mountain trails maps and GPS track data
from '95 data above (.gpx format)
- smoky mountains trails
- OSM Smoky Mountains map
-
900 miler hike all trails
in the GSMNP
( the
trails)
and an article
- updated Smokies topo maps (geo-reference pdfs) 2013
- historical
maps of the Great Smoky Mountains from Library of Congress
- 1890 topo
knoxville/smokies
and Mt Guyot
from
Tennessee Historical Topographic Maps
- UT library
Smoky Mountain Maps
- USGS
topo quads with peaks
- CCPA
Cades Cove folks on 1934 map
- Smoky Mountain trail maps
and atlas with GPS data
or National Geographic map
- Dutch Roth's
black&white photos of the Great Smoky Mountains (1920's-)
- Dutch Roths's
Tales from the Woods journal/photos of Roth's hikes in the Smokies (1924-1959).
- Kephart's
photos
- Garner photos
- 1936 Great Smoky Mountains National park film
- Fontana lake and
lake level
summer pool 1700', winter level 1640'
and
boat ramps
or
google map
- The remotest point in the Smokies (and NC) is at
35.545735,-83.603749 about 6.2 miles from any road or the Fontana
shoreline.
The remotest campsite is
Tricorner shelter, about 5 miles to nearest road.
The remotest point in Tennessee is at
35.570068,-83.591414 about 5.5 miles from any road or
35.688871,-83.262976 (5.3 miles).
Refs:
wiki
Pole of Inaccessibility,
Going remote,
algorithm
The furthest point on a trail from a trailhead is at
35.673557,-83.293037 along the AT at Mt Sequoyah, 12.2 miles via
Hughes Ridge or Snake Den.
- Great Smoky Mountain peaks of 5000' and higher with at least 160'
of prominence on Google
map
- summitpost.org
Great Smoky Mountains
-
12 peaks over 6000' in the Smokies (with prominence of at least 200')
- Which is higher --
Tricorner Knob or Mt Yonaguska? LiDAR knows.
- 2011 Smokies GPS elevation survey and LiDAR
- peaks in the south over 6000', see
South Beyond 6000
or
peakbagger.com
and their peak search
- LiDAR and the phantom peak on Big Cataloochee
-
Appalachian Trail TN section
and Maptech TN AT track file (zip, txf)
-
shelter waypoints for all of AT
- the AT in the Smoky Mountains
elevation profile mileage profile
- side trails off the AT in the GSMNP
-
Appalachian Trail guide through Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- landforms of the Big South Fork (TN/KY) GPS
- GPS info
and free pc-to-gps software EasyGPS
- TN
peaks 4500' and higher or
Google map of TN peaks with greater than 1000' prominence,
NC 5000' peaks
- TN peaks over 6000'
or county high points
and NC county high points
- NC waterfalls google map
worlddatabase.com North Carolina
- wayhoo's USGS
waypoints in/near GSMNP
- TN/GSMNP lookout towers
and Google map
- Dutch Roth tower photos 1920