Big Bald
Big Bald rises to 1,674 m in North Carolina. Big Stamp stands 1,639 m to the north, 0.2 miles off. Interstate 26 Scenic Highway passes 4.6 miles off.
The story
Big Bald is a mountain on the border of Yancey County, North Carolina and Unicoi County, Tennessee. Located along the Appalachian Trail at an elevation of 5,516 feet (1,681 m), it is the highest peak in the Bald Mountains, which are part of the larger Blue Ridge Mountains subrange of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Wikidata Q107639276, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1674 m
How to reach it
- 4.6 mi off the Interstate 26 Scenic Highway
- 15.6 mi off the Appalachian Medley
- 16.5 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 18.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Walker Knob Overlook (MP 359.8) · 19 mi
- Glassmine Falls Overlook (MP 361.2) · 19 mi
- Lover's Leap · 20 mi
- Graybeard Mountain View (MP 363.4) · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Stamp: 0.2 mi
- Highrock: 1.7 mi
- Little Bald: 2.1 mi
- Grassy Knob: 2.2 mi
- Upper Haw Knob: 2.3 mi
- Upper Laurel Community Center Park: 6.2 mi
- Veterans Park: 11.1 mi
- Eugene P. Price Kiwanis Park: 11.2 mi
- Ray–Cort Recreation Park: 11.6 mi
- Lincoln Park: 11.8 mi
- Big Creek Falls: 7.2 mi
- Lower Higgins Creek Falls: 7.3 mi
- Birchfield Camp Falls: 7.4 mi
- Trillium Falls: 7.7 mi
- Longarm Branch Falls: 8.5 mi
- Moye Rest: 4.9 mi
- WWII Memorial: 11.2 mi
- Otway Burns: 11.8 mi
- Yancey County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 11.8 mi
- Yancey County Veterans Memorial: 11.8 mi
- Baxter Cliff: 11.6 mi
- Stony Point: 11.7 mi
- Whiterock Cliff: 12.0 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 12.2 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 12.2 mi
- McElroy House: 11.7 mi
- The Lloyd Bailey Annex: 11.7 mi
- Rural Heritage Museum: 11.8 mi
- Clinchfield Railroad Museum: 13.4 mi
- Unicoi County Heritage Museum: 13.4 mi
- Rock Bridge: 11.8 mi
- Black Mountain Range: 11.8 mi
- Petal & Leaves: 11.8 mi
- Friends: 11.8 mi
- Stream: 11.8 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 19.9 mi
- Overlook Access: 20.0 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 20.5 mi
- Love Road Picnic: 21.5 mi
- Stephen Falls Picnic Area: 21.6 mi
- Marshall Nature Sanctuary: 16.8 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 19.5 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 22.9 mi
- Rocky Knob: 23.3 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 24.4 mi
- Navitat Canopy Adventures: 13.6 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 16.1 mi
- French Broad Rafting: 16.6 mi
- Downtown Square Breezeway: 23.9 mi
- Johnson City Sign: 23.9 mi
- Mountain Gardens: 18.4 mi
- Terrace garden: 18.5 mi
- Camp Celo Gardens: 20.5 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 22.6 mi
- Mitchell Giving Gardens: 24.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 16.4 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 23.1 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 23.6 mi
- Big Rock Spring: 24.8 mi
- Lost Cove: 7.5 mi
- Riverside Park Beach Access: 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Big Bald. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Stamp | N 1° | 1,639 m | 0.2 mi |
| Little Bald | NE 53° | 1,575 m | 2.1 mi |
| Upper Haw Knob | S 189° | 1,492 m | 2.3 mi |
| Green Ridge Knob | WNW 298° | 1,480 m | 8.3 mi |
| Sampson Mountain | SE 129° | 1,454 m | 3.4 mi |
| Elk Wallow Knob | S 169° | 1,452 m | 2.9 mi |
| Firescald Mountain | SSE 149° | 1,442 m | 3.1 mi |
| Sampson Peak | SE 129° | 1,442 m | 3.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:14 | 20:13 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:40 | 17:20 |
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 | 39 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 71 | 74 | 73 | 68 | 57 | 46 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Erwin 1 W, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356788062
Day trips start here
- Johnson City · 24 mi
- Elizabethton · 28 mi
- Asheville · 29 mi
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