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Roan Mountain contains five peaks: Roan High Knob, located between Carver's Gap and Tollhouse, is the highest point on Roan Mountain with an elevation of 6,277 feet (1,913 m). The Tennessee-North Carolina border crosses its summit.
The Roan Mountain spruce–fir stand is accessed via state highway—designated as Highway 143 in Tennessee and Highway 261 in North Carolina—and a paved road accesses the gap between Roan High Knob and Roan High Bluff, where there is a large rhododendron garden.
Roan Mountain State Park. Roan Mountain State Park is a Tennessee state park in Carter County, in Northeast Tennessee. It is close to the Tennessee-North Carolina border and near the community of Roan Mountain, Tennessee. Situated in the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains, the park preserves 2,006 acres (8.12 km 2) of mostly hardwood forest.
Soaky Mountain Waterpark is celebrating Christmas with Shadrack’s original Christmas Wonderland Light Display from 6-10 p.m. in its parking lot. Afterward, your family can visit Snowy Mountain ...
Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland has moved to Soaky Mountain Waterpark. The 8-mile drive-thru light show features 25-feet-tall trumpeting angels, a star-studded pathway and custom-built “Santa ...
As the days grow warmer and the Smokies' landscape ripples with color, a growing treetop chorus says that spring is here, and new life is thriving. Word from the Smokies: Spring's grand ...
One example of southern balds' abnormality can be found at Roan Mountain, where Roan High Knob (el. 6,285 ft/1,915 m) is coated with a dense stand of spruce-fir forest, whereas an adjacent summit, Round Bald (el. 5,826 ft/1,776 m), is almost entirely devoid of trees. Why some summits are bald and some are not is a mystery, though there are ...
In some geological and historical sources, the term "Unaka Range" is used to identify the entire crest of the Appalachian Mountains along the Tennessee-North Carolina border, including the Unakas, the Great Smoky Mountains, the Bald Mountains, the Unicoi Mountains, and the mountains in the Big Frog Wilderness and Little Frog Mountain Wilderness.