Tennessee Peaks

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Waypoint Peak County Locale
CTP001 Roan High Knob 6285' Carter CNF
SVP001 Clingmans Dome 6643' Sevier GSMNP
SVP002 Mt Ambler 6120' Sevier GSMNP
SVP003 Mt Buckley 6575' Sevier GSMNP
SVP004 Mt Chapman 6417' Sevier GSMNP
SVP005 Mt Collins 6188' Sevier GSMNP
SVP006 Mt Guyot 6621' Sevier GSMNP
SVP007 Mt Kephart 6217' Sevier GSMNP
SVP008 Mt Le Conte 6593' Sevier GSMNP
SVP009 Mt Love 6446' Sevier GSMNP
SVP010 Mt Sequoyah 6023' Sevier GSMNP
SVP011 Old Black 6370' Sevier GSMNP
SVP012 Tricorner Knob 6136' Sevier GSMNP
Click on name of peak above for maps/pictures etc.
Waypoints: tnpeaks.gpx or tnpeaks.mxf
cohp.gpx or cohp.mxf

The table above lists the 13 mountain peaks in Tennessee above 6000'. Bag a sixer! There are a few more sixers on the NC side of the Smoky mountains, see GSMNP landforms. For other peaks in the south over 6000', see South Beyond 6000 (minimum promience of 200' or isolation of at least 0.75 miles) or peakbagger.com's South beyhond 6000 or Southern Appalachian 6000-foot Peaks or the book The Southern Sixers The highest point in TN is Clingmans Dome at 6,643'. The lowest point in Tennessee is 178' along the Mississippi. The highest mountain east of the Mississippi and west of the Appalachians is Cross Mountain at 3,540'. Check out the county high points for the highest location in each of Tennessee's 95 counties and learn more about digital elevation data (DEM, LiDAR, SRTM). Also see article on Tennessee's high points. The remotest spot in TN is Tricorner Knob.

Tennessee has 25 peaks over a mile high, and 129 peaks over 4000' from americasroof.com, GPS waypoint file (tnptop.gpx) and Google map. Also, see peakbagger.com TN TN peaks over 4500' (160' prominence). Actually, there are many more unnamed peaks over 4000', their significance a function of prominence and isolation. See Tennessee's mountains with prominence of 1000 feet or greater (Google map) and Southeast USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Clingmans Dome, Roan High Knob, Big Bald, Big Frog Mtn, English Mtn, Flag Pole).

Tennessee county high points and lookout towers and USGS datasheets benchmarks by lat/lon, county, quad

 

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Revised Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:24:20 -0500