Briar Knob
Briar Knob rises to 463 m in Tennessee. Mount le Conte - High Top stands 2,010 m to the southeast, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Moonshine Mountain Coaster, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Newfound Gap Road Byway passes 1.3 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31663775, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 463 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 18.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 19.4 mi off the Nantahala Byway
- 22.9 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Carlos Campbell Overlook · 4 mi
- Ben Morton Overlook · 9 mi
- Newfound Gap Overlook · 9 mi
- Deep Creek Valley Overlook · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Moonshine Mountain Coaster: 0.1 mi
- Ripley's Mountain Coaster: 0.3 mi
- Ripley's Davy Crockett Mini-Golf: 0.3 mi
- Speedwerkz Exotic Car Experience: 0.4 mi
- Ripley's Super Fun Zone: 0.5 mi
- Thousand Drips: 1.5 mi
- Baskins Creek Falls: 2.2 mi
- Cataract Falls: 2.7 mi
- Grotto Falls: 4.5 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 4.6 mi
- Piney Butt: 1.5 mi
- Holy Butt: 2.9 mi
- Caney High Top: 3.4 mi
- Piney Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Sugar Camp Knob: 3.9 mi
- Mynatt Park: 1.3 mi
- Mills Park: 3.6 mi
- Patriot Park: 5.3 mi
- Wear Farm City Park: 6.9 mi
- Sevierville City Park: 10.0 mi
- The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum;The Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum: 0.4 mi
- Ripley's Believe It Or Not!: 0.8 mi
- Hollywood Star Cars Museum: 0.9 mi
- Chasing Rainbows Museum: 5.4 mi
- Alcatraz East Crime Museum: 6.7 mi
- Alum Cave: 6.6 mi
- The Shinbone: 7.9 mi
- Cat Stairs: 8.4 mi
- The Jumpoff: 8.9 mi
- East End: 10.5 mi
- Chimneys Picnic Area: 5.8 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion: 6.9 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Area: 7.0 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 8.4 mi
- Tremont Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Sugarlands Stone Cabin: 4.3 mi
- Patriot Park Liberty Bell: 5.3 mi
- Patriot Park Patriot Missile: 5.4 mi
- Fort Harry: 5.9 mi
- Bear: 0.3 mi
- Fish: 5.5 mi
- Veterans Statue: 10.7 mi
- Dolly Parton: 10.8 mi
- Selu Statue: 20.7 mi
- Brakeshoe Spring: 20.3 mi
- Mouse Creek Spring: 21.6 mi
- Strong rock spring: 23.6 mi
- Burnett Spring: 23.8 mi
- Vista Gardens: 0.7 mi
- Bamboo Forest: 19.7 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 5.9 mi
- Greenbrier: 6.4 mi
- Emerts Cove Covered Bridge: 5.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Briar Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount le Conte - High Top | SE 139° | 2,010 m | 6.0 mi |
| Mount Le Conte | SE 139° | 2,004 m | 6.0 mi |
| Cliff Top | SE 142° | 1,997 m | 5.7 mi |
| Myrtle Point | SE 137° | 1,992 m | 6.2 mi |
| West Point | SE 146° | 1,937 m | 5.4 mi |
| Mount Kephart | SE 133° | 1,895 m | 9.0 mi |
| Anakeesta Knob | SE 138° | 1,827 m | 7.9 mi |
| Balsam Point | SSE 157° | 1,774 m | 5.0 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356789999
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