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Chilhowee Mountain is the name of two non-contiguous ridges in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The ridges run in a northeastern to southwestern direction. The northern section is at the outer edge of the Great Smoky Mountains, stretching from the Little Pigeon River watershed at the northeast to the Little Tennessee River and Chilhowee Dam to the southwest.
The Chilhowee Mountain section of the parkway has been open since 1966. There are four overlooks on its north side (looking into the Tennessee Valley), and eight overlooks on its south side (looking into the Smokies). The highest point on the western section of Chilhowee Mountain is 2,650 ft (808 m) at a knob known as Look Rock.
The community lies in an area called The Flats, on a spur of Chilhowee Mountain in East Tennessee.The surrounding country is rugged. [5] The Foothills Parkway passes just to the northwest, and the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park lies just to the southeast. [6]
Late 19th-century anthropologist James Mooney recorded two Cherokee legends regarding Chilhowee. The first was the story of the Utlunta, an ogress who roamed the Chilhowee area and devoured children, before the Cherokee cornered and killed her on the slopes of Chilhowee Mountain. Another legend concerned the "False Warriors of Chilhowee," a ...
Happy Valley Missionary Baptist Church. Happy Valley is situated in a narrow valley of the same name on the northwestern fringe of the Great Smoky Mountains. Chilhowee Mountain— an elongate ridge stretching for roughly 35 miles (56 km) between the Little Tennessee River and the Little Pigeon River watersheds— spans Happy Valley to the north.
Lake in the Sky is a small mountain lake located on the slopes of Chilhowee Mountain. Foothills Parkway passes just to the northwest, and the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park lies just to the southeast. [1] The lake lies in an area called The Flats, on a spur of Chilhowee Mountain. The surrounding country is rugged. [2]
The northwestern half of the range gives way to a series of elongate ridges known as the "Foothills," the outermost of which include Chilhowee Mountain and English Mountain. The range is roughly bounded on the south by the Tuckasegee River and to the southeast by Soco Creek and Jonathan Creek.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the southeast, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee.The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain.