The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum;The Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum
The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum;The Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum is a museum in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 417 m. Mount le Conte - High Top stands 2,010 m to the southeast, 5.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Bear, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Newfound Gap Road Byway passes 1.3 miles off.
The story
The Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers is located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It houses more than 20,000 pairs of salt and pepper shakers from all over the world. There is also a sister museum in El Castell de Guadalest, Alicante, Spain, which displays another 20,000 pairs. The museum was founded in 2002 by Andrea Ludden, a Belgian archaeologist. Her stated goal was to show the creativity of all the artists that have crafted an everyday item into a myriad of shapes and materials.
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Dates from 2002.
Wikidata Q55075349, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 18.1 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 19.1 mi off the Nantahala Byway
- 22.8 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Carlos Campbell Overlook · 4 mi
- Ben Morton Overlook · 8 mi
- Newfound Gap Overlook · 8 mi
- Deep Creek Valley Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Briar Knob: 0.4 mi
- Piney Butt: 1.9 mi
- Holy Butt: 3.0 mi
- Piney Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Round Top: 3.6 mi
- Birdventure: 0.4 mi
- Hellbender: 0.4 mi
- Speedwerkz Exotic Car Experience: 0.5 mi
- Ripley's Mountain Coaster: 0.5 mi
- Moonshine Mountain Coaster: 0.5 mi
- Thousand Drips: 1.1 mi
- Baskins Creek Falls: 1.9 mi
- Cataract Falls: 2.8 mi
- Grotto Falls: 4.2 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 4.3 mi
- Mynatt Park: 1.3 mi
- Mills Park: 3.4 mi
- Patriot Park: 5.7 mi
- Wear Farm City Park: 7.2 mi
- Sevierville City Park: 10.3 mi
- Ripley's Believe It Or Not!: 1.0 mi
- Hollywood Star Cars Museum: 1.0 mi
- Chasing Rainbows Museum: 5.7 mi
- Alcatraz East Crime Museum: 7.1 mi
- Cooter's Place: 7.5 mi
- Alum Cave: 6.2 mi
- The Shinbone: 8.1 mi
- Cat Stairs: 8.1 mi
- The Jumpoff: 8.6 mi
- East End: 10.8 mi
- Chimneys Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion: 6.6 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- Tremont Picnic Area: 11.7 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Sugarlands Stone Cabin: 4.1 mi
- Fort Harry: 5.6 mi
- Patriot Park Liberty Bell: 5.7 mi
- Patriot Park Patriot Missile: 5.7 mi
- Bear: 0.1 mi
- Fish: 5.9 mi
- Veterans Statue: 11.0 mi
- Dolly Parton: 11.1 mi
- Selu Statue: 20.3 mi
- Brakeshoe Spring: 20.0 mi
- Mouse Creek Spring: 21.3 mi
- Burnett Spring: 23.7 mi
- Strong rock spring: 23.9 mi
- Vista Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Bamboo Forest: 19.3 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 5.7 mi
- Greenbrier: 6.2 mi
- Emerts Cove Covered Bridge: 5.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum;The Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount le Conte - High Top | SE 139° | 2,009.55 m | 5.6 mi |
| Mount Le Conte | SE 139° | 2,004 m | 5.6 mi |
| Cliff Top | SE 143° | 1,996.55 m | 5.4 mi |
| Myrtle Point | SE 138° | 1,991.56 m | 5.9 mi |
| West Point | SSE 147° | 1,937.31 m | 5.1 mi |
| Mount Kephart | SE 133° | 1,895.27 m | 8.7 mi |
| Mount Ambler | SE 136° | 1,865.34 m | 8.8 mi |
| Anakeesta Knob | SE 139° | 1,826.86 m | 7.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:12 | 19:46 |
| June solstice | 06:19 | 20:16 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 18:59 | 19:33 |
| December solstice | 07:41 | 16:45 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 40 | 47 | 55 | 63 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 40 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.3 | 5.6 | 4.9 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.3 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gatlinburg 2 SW, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/279172555
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