Grassy Knob
Grassy Knob rises to 1,146 m in Tennessee. Big Bald stands 1,674 m to the southeast, 2.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Highrock, a peak 0.6 miles away. Interstate 26 Scenic Highway passes 4.3 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Tennessee, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31672043, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,146 m
How to reach it
- 4.3 mi off the Interstate 26 Scenic Highway
- 14.5 mi off the Appalachian Medley
- 16.4 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 22.7 mi off the East Tennessee Crossing, National
Overlooks nearby
- Lover's Leap · 19 mi
- Walker Knob Overlook (MP 359.8) · 21 mi
- Glassmine Falls Overlook (MP 361.2) · 21 mi
- Graybeard Mountain View (MP 363.4) · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Upper Laurel Community Center Park: 6.9 mi
- Old Forge Recreation Area: 10.6 mi
- Veterans Park: 10.7 mi
- Eugene P. Price Kiwanis Park: 10.8 mi
- Unicoi Wildlife Management Area: 11.2 mi
- Highrock: 0.6 mi
- Tilson Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Big Stamp: 2.1 mi
- Big Bald: 2.2 mi
- Little Bald: 3.4 mi
- Lower Higgins Creek Falls: 5.6 mi
- Birchfield Camp Falls: 5.6 mi
- Trillium Falls: 6.0 mi
- Longarm Branch Falls: 6.7 mi
- Wilderness Falls: 6.8 mi
- Moye Rest: 4.5 mi
- WWII Memorial: 10.8 mi
- Shelton Laurel Massacre: 13.4 mi
- Otway Burns: 13.9 mi
- Yancey County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 14.0 mi
- Baxter Cliff: 9.6 mi
- Whiterock Cliff: 10.0 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 10.2 mi
- Bayless Bluff: 11.0 mi
- Stony Point: 11.0 mi
- Rural Heritage Museum: 12.7 mi
- Clinchfield Railroad Museum: 13.1 mi
- Unicoi County Heritage Museum: 13.1 mi
- McElroy House: 13.8 mi
- The Lloyd Bailey Annex: 13.8 mi
- Rock Bridge: 13.9 mi
- Black Mountain Range: 13.9 mi
- Petal & Leaves: 14.0 mi
- Friends: 14.0 mi
- Stream: 14.0 mi
- Overlook Access: 18.4 mi
- Love Road Picnic: 19.9 mi
- Stephen Falls Picnic Area: 20.1 mi
- Murray Branch Recreation Area: 20.6 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 22.0 mi
- Navitat Canopy Adventures: 15.3 mi
- French Broad Rafting: 16.1 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 17.8 mi
- Downtown Square Breezeway: 23.3 mi
- Johnson City Sign: 23.3 mi
- Marshall Nature Sanctuary: 16.9 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 21.3 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 23.9 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 24.8 mi
- Mountain Gardens: 20.6 mi
- Terrace garden: 20.7 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 22.0 mi
- Camp Celo Gardens: 22.7 mi
- Cold Spring: 14.8 mi
- Big Rock Spring: 23.8 mi
- Lost Cove: 7.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of Grassy Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bald | SE 127° | 1,674 m | 2.2 mi |
| Big Stamp | ESE 122° | 1,639 m | 2.1 mi |
| Little Bald | E 91° | 1,575 m | 3.4 mi |
| Upper Haw Knob | SSE 159° | 1,492 m | 3.8 mi |
| Green Ridge Knob | WNW 294° | 1,480 m | 6.1 mi |
| Gravel Knob | WNW 302° | 1,478 m | 6.9 mi |
| Big Butt | WNW 303° | 1,467 m | 7.4 mi |
| Sampson Mountain | SE 128° | 1,454 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:14 | 20:13 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| 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/356884896
Day trips start here
- Johnson City · 23 mi
- Elizabethton · 28 mi
- Asheville · 30 mi
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