![]() You'll end up finding a bear tearing your car apart. On another note about bears.Clayton says it's probably good not to eat KFC on the drive up and then leave the windows open. Current digital images combined with weather and air quality information (if available) from monitoring locations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are part of the NPS air quality web camera network, the National Ecological Observatory Network ( NEON ), and the PhenoCam Network. There are a bunch of information boards about the Cherokees up there. The Cherokees considered the lake to be a place of healing, and would hike down to it. It is a sacred place for the Cherokees and was/is thought of as a place "where the bears dance in the mountains." On a clear day, you can see down to Fontana Lake in North Carolina, which might just look like a glowing blue cloud (it did to me). The Appalachian trail is the dividing line between TN and NC through the Smokies, and you can see a 360 degree view in both directions from the Dome. On clear days, visitors may see as far as 100 miles. The Dome actually lies within both Tennessee and North Carolina and is the highest point in Tennessee. On a rare clear day, you can see 100 miles out from this peak, with trees stretching below a vast expanse of beautiful blue sky. The Dome refers to the mountaintop, not the man-made observation tower. Stretching to an impressive 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This is the highest point of the Appalachian trail-you go across the dome on the hike. At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome boasts the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It's a bit more of a hike but is totally worth it to skip out on some of the crowds. Clayton from Smoky Mountain Guides gave me some great advice: take the little dirt path down to the left instead of the concrete stairs. Clingmans Dome Observation Tower Trail Moderate 4.5 (4527) Great Smoky Mountains National Park Photos (5,332) Directions Print/PDF map Length 1.3 miElevation gain 331 ftRoute type Out & back Explore this 1. Clingmans Dome is part of the Copperhill Formation, part of the Ocoee Supergroup. The tower cost a mere 57,000 to construct, which is about 510,000 in today’s money. I'd say, get away from the parking lot ASAP. Clingmans Dome Geology Observation tower and Clingmans Dome parking lot opened to the public on Oct. I wasn't expecting the crowds that I found up at Clingman's Dome.
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