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In the Great Smoky Mountains, Anakeesta, a nature immersive adventure park, sits 600 feet above Gatlinburg and offers a unique perspective on the East Tennessee city’s July 4 fireworks spectacular.
Local appreciation discount days are returning to the outdoor adventure park in Gatlinburg. Residents and employees in four East Tennessee counties can enjoy a mountaintop adventure at the ...
Enchanted Christmas at Anakeesta. Now through Dec. 31. When the sun sets in the Smokies, Anakeesta mountain comes to life with a celebration of lights during the Enchanted Christmas celebration ...
Anakeesta Knob is located in the central Great Smoky Mountains in Sevier County, Tennessee. It is situated between Mount LeConte to the northwest, and Mount Kephart and Charlies Bunion to the east. At an elevation of 5,988 feet (1,825 m), Anakeesta Knob is the tallest mountain in Tennessee with an elevation less than 6,000 feet (1,800 m).
Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee.At 6,593 ft (2,010 m) it is the third highest peak in the national park, behind Kuwohi (6,643 ft (2,025 m)) and Mount Guyot (6,621 ft (2,018 m)).
The Anakeesta Formation, which comprises much of the crest of the Central Smokies, was created nearly a billion years ago from ancient ocean sediments. The rock was thrust upward during the Appalachian orogeny , when the North American and African plates collided around 400 million years ago.
Check out Anakeesta's Bear-Varian Fall Festival Sept. 1-Oct. 31, the Gatlinburg Harvest Festival Sept. 4-Nov. 7, or the Smoky Mountain Fall Festival at Ober Mountain Sept. 20-Oct. 27.
Mount Kephart is composed of a type of slate and meta-siltstone known as Anakeesta Formation, which is common throughout the central Smokies. This type of rock is exposed at Charlies Bunion, just to the northeast of Kephart. [3] The Anakeesta Formation rocks are part of the Ocoee Supergroup, formed from ocean sediments nearly a billion years ago.