Becks Bald
Becks Bald rises to 1,534 m in North Carolina. Mount Guyot stands 2,019 m to the north-northeast, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Whitewater Branch Falls, a waterfall 1.3 miles away. Newfound Gap Road Byway passes 2.5 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q31616194, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1534.16 m
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 4.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 10.8 mi off the Nantahala Byway
- 18.6 mi off the Appalachian Medley
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Whitewater Branch Falls: 1.3 mi
- Chasteen Creek Cascade: 1.3 mi
- Buckshot Falls: 1.3 mi
- Big Boy Falls: 1.3 mi
- Great Blue Heron Falls: 1.3 mi
- Mount Clark: 3.4 mi
- Richland Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Mount Stand Watie: 4.4 mi
- Hyatt Bald: 4.5 mi
- Potato Hill Bald: 4.5 mi
- Harrah's Cherokee Convention Center: 8.1 mi
- Mandara Spa Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort: 8.1 mi
- Arch Rock: 9.2 mi
- Soco Falls Overlook: 9.3 mi
- Soco Craft & Tower Inc: 10.0 mi
- Acquoni Road Family Park: 6.8 mi
- ᎠᏂᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ ᎤᎾᏓᎪᎾᏙᏗᏱ;Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds: 7.2 mi
- ᎠᏂᏣᎳᎩ ᎤᏂᏲᏏᏙᎸ ᎨᏥᎸᏉᏗᏍᎬ;Cherokee Veterans Park: 7.3 mi
- Oconaluftee Park: 7.4 mi
- Norman Maney Recreation Park: 9.4 mi
- Mountain Farm Museum: 5.2 mi
- Oconaluftee Indian Village: 7.1 mi
- Museum of the Cherokee Indian: 7.2 mi
- Wheels Through Time Motorcycle Museum: 12.9 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Museum: 13.9 mi
- Nimrod Jarett Smith: 7.4 mi
- Masonic Monument: 7.5 mi
- Fort Harry: 11.0 mi
- Ghost Town Village: 11.2 mi
- 1983 Plane Crash: 12.2 mi
- Eagle Rocks: 5.1 mi
- Cliff: 5.1 mi
- The Jumpoff: 6.5 mi
- Alum Cave: 9.6 mi
- Cat Stairs: 10.3 mi
- Selu Statue: 8.1 mi
- Confederate Soldiers Monument: 15.1 mi
- Bear: 15.1 mi
- Sylva Mural: 15.1 mi
- Moai Statue: 15.2 mi
- Heintooga Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion: 9.8 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Chimneys Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
- Deep Creek Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
- Bamboo Forest: 7.5 mi
- Vista Gardens: 14.8 mi
- Sylva Community Garden: 15.0 mi
- Susanna Wesley Garden: 18.1 mi
- Cullowhee Community Garden: 19.5 mi
- Mouse Creek Spring: 12.4 mi
- Brakeshoe Spring: 13.1 mi
- Wildcat Spring: 19.4 mi
- Whiteoak Spring: 22.2 mi
- Haywood County US 74 Eastbound Rest Area: 15.8 mi
- Haywood County US 74 Westbound Rest Area: 16.0 mi
- North Carolina Welcome Center: 16.0 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center - Cocke County: 17.7 mi
- Greenbrier: 11.1 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 12.7 mi
- Cold Mountain Gameland: 24.8 mi
- Emerts Cove Covered Bridge: 13.3 mi
- Covered Bridge Trail: 13.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Becks Bald. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Guyot | NNE 12° | 2,019.13 m | 8.4 mi |
| Mount Chapman | N 8° | 1,960.2 m | 7.0 mi |
| Old Black | NNE 12° | 1,938.61 m | 9.1 mi |
| Mount Kephart | WNW 299° | 1,895.27 m | 6.5 mi |
| Luftee Knob | NNE 29° | 1,894.26 m | 8.4 mi |
| Mount Yonaguska | NNE 17° | 1,883.44 m | 7.8 mi |
| Marks Knob | NNE 19° | 1,878.29 m | 6.9 mi |
| Big Cataloochee Mountain | NE 47° | 1,875.19 m | 8.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:38 | 19:12 | 19:45 |
| June solstice | 06:19 | 20:15 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:22 | 18:58 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:45 | 17:24 |
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 | 36 | 40 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 39 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oconaluftee, 5 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Jan and Feb; busiest: Oct.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 980876 — Becks Bald, Swain County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357767991
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