Big Frog Mountain
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Big Frog Mountain rises to 1,276 m in Tennessee. Cowpen Mountain stands 1,264 m to the south-southwest, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Chimneytop, a peak 1.1 miles away. Ocoee Scenic Byway passes 5.3 miles off.
The story
Big Frog Mountain is a mountain located primarily in southeastern Tennessee in the Big Frog Wilderness, within the Cherokee National Forest. It is located within the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains. At an elevation of 4,224 feet (1,287 m), there is no higher point west of Big Frog Mountain until the Big Bend in Texas or the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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Wikidata Q4905745, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1276 m
How to reach it
- 5.3 mi off the Ocoee Scenic Byway
- 12.2 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
- 28.6 mi off the Waterfall Byway
- 28.5 mi off the Cherohala Skyway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook · 9 mi
- Parksville Lake Viewpoint · 9 mi
- Sugerloaf Viewpoint · 10 mi
- Gazebo Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Chimneytop: 1.1 mi
- Chestnut Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Bearpen Hill: 2.0 mi
- Hemp Top: 2.0 mi
- Licklog Top: 2.3 mi
- Ocoee Wildlife Management Area: 3.6 mi
- Tumbling Creek Recreation Area: 3.7 mi
- Thunder Rock Recreation Area: 5.7 mi
- Cohutta Wildlife Management Area: 8.1 mi
- Devils Point Recreation Area: 8.3 mi
- Georgia-Tennessee Border: 9.1 mi
- Rolling Thunder River Company: 9.5 mi
- Blue Ridge Scenic Railway: 14.9 mi
- Expedition: Bigfoot - The Sasquatch Museum: 16.2 mi
- Prayer Mountain: 17.8 mi
- Jacks River Falls 80: 3.2 mi
- Rock Creek Falls: 9.7 mi
- Benton Falls: 10.4 mi
- Big Lost Falls: 10.6 mi
- Barnes Creek Falls 25: 12.4 mi
- Conasauga Native Americal Wall: 11.0 mi
- CSA Soldiers Memorial: 11.3 mi
- Nancy Ward Tomb: 14.2 mi
- Fort Marr Blockhouse: 16.4 mi
- Fred Stone: 20.8 mi
- Panther Bluff: 7.8 mi
- White Cliffs: 12.9 mi
- Henegar Bluff: 21.0 mi
- Ellijay Cross: 21.8 mi
- White Cliff: 23.8 mi
- Shady Beach: 8.4 mi
- Shady Beach: 8.5 mi
- Parksville Beach: 9.2 mi
- Poop Island: 17.8 mi
- Lake Conasauga Picnic and Swim Site: 12.0 mi
- Towee Creek Picnic area: 14.2 mi
- Big Bend Recreation Area: 14.3 mi
- Cherokee Lake Picnic Area: 21.1 mi
- Tabor House Museum: 21.3 mi
- L&N Depot Museum: 22.3 mi
- Museum Center at 5ive Points: 22.3 mi
- Squidbillies Early Cuyler Statue: 22.7 mi
- Face: 23.3 mi
- Potatopatch Spring: 11.6 mi
- Cohutta Wildlife Management Area: 13.2 mi
- Due: 20.7 mi
- BSUMC Giving Garden: 22.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Big Frog Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cowpen Mountain | SSW 198° | 1,264 m | 8.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | SSW 211° | 1,222 m | 10.9 mi |
| Chimneytop | NNE 21° | 1,137 m | 1.1 mi |
| Three Forks Mountain | SSW 194° | 1,101 m | 8.6 mi |
| Flat Top Mountain | S 170° | 1,094 m | 10.4 mi |
| Hemp Top | SSE 165° | 1,089 m | 2.0 mi |
| Buckeye Mountain | SSW 213° | 1,074 m | 5.9 mi |
| Pink Knob | S 178° | 1,060 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:17 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:25 | 20:19 | 20:56 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 16:52 | 17:31 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 78 | 78 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cleveland Fltr PLT, 21 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356884089
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