Highrock
Highrock rises to 1,244 m in Tennessee. Big Bald stands 1,674 m to the east-southeast, 1.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Grassy Knob, a peak 0.6 miles away. Interstate 26 Scenic Highway passes 4.1 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Tennessee, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31674194, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,244 m
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Interstate 26 Scenic Highway
- 14.6 mi off the Appalachian Medley
- 16.2 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 22.9 mi off the East Tennessee Crossing, National
Overlooks nearby
- Lover's Leap · 19 mi
- Walker Knob Overlook (MP 359.8) · 20 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: 6.5 mi
- Veterans Park: 11.0 mi
- Eugene P. Price Kiwanis Park: 11.0 mi
- Old Forge Recreation Area: 11.1 mi
- Unicoi Wildlife Management Area: 11.5 mi
- Grassy Knob: 0.6 mi
- Tilson Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Big Stamp: 1.6 mi
- Big Bald: 1.7 mi
- Little Bald: 3.1 mi
- Lower Higgins Creek Falls: 6.1 mi
- Birchfield Camp Falls: 6.1 mi
- Trillium Falls: 6.2 mi
- Longarm Branch Falls: 7.2 mi
- Wilderness Falls: 7.4 mi
- Moye Rest: 4.3 mi
- WWII Memorial: 11.1 mi
- Otway Burns: 13.4 mi
- Yancey County Confederate Soldiers Monument: 13.5 mi
- Yancey County Veterans Memorial: 13.5 mi
- Baxter Cliff: 10.0 mi
- Whiterock Cliff: 10.4 mi
- Blackstack Cliffs: 10.6 mi
- Stony Point: 11.3 mi
- Bayless Bluff: 11.5 mi
- Rural Heritage Museum: 12.3 mi
- Clinchfield Railroad Museum: 13.3 mi
- McElroy House: 13.3 mi
- Unicoi County Heritage Museum: 13.3 mi
- The Lloyd Bailey Annex: 13.4 mi
- Rock Bridge: 13.4 mi
- Black Mountain Range: 13.4 mi
- Petal & Leaves: 13.5 mi
- Friends: 13.5 mi
- Stream: 13.5 mi
- Overlook Access: 18.6 mi
- Love Road Picnic: 20.2 mi
- Stephen Falls Picnic Area: 20.3 mi
- Murray Branch Recreation Area: 20.8 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 21.4 mi
- Navitat Canopy Adventures: 14.8 mi
- French Broad Rafting: 16.0 mi
- Little Snowball Lookout Tower: 17.3 mi
- Downtown Square Breezeway: 23.6 mi
- Johnson City Sign: 23.6 mi
- Marshall Nature Sanctuary: 16.7 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 20.7 mi
- Jacob's Nature Park at Sinking Creek: 24.2 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 24.2 mi
- Rocky Knob: 24.7 mi
- Mountain Gardens: 20.1 mi
- Terrace garden: 20.1 mi
- Camp Celo Gardens: 22.2 mi
- ETSU Community Garden: 22.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 15.1 mi
- Big Rock Spring: 23.8 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 24.6 mi
- Lost Cove: 7.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.7 miles of Highrock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bald | ESE 120° | 1,674 m | 1.7 mi |
| Big Stamp | ESE 113° | 1,639 m | 1.6 mi |
| Little Bald | E 82° | 1,575 m | 3.1 mi |
| Upper Haw Knob | SSE 161° | 1,492 m | 3.3 mi |
| Green Ridge Knob | WNW 297° | 1,480 m | 6.6 mi |
| Gravel Knob | WNW 304° | 1,478 m | 7.5 mi |
| Big Butt | NW 304° | 1,467 m | 7.9 mi |
| Sampson Mountain | SE 126° | 1,454 m | 5.1 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1328440 — Highrock, Unicoi County, Tennessee.
OpenStreetMap element node/356885067
Day trips start here
- Johnson City · 23 mi
- Elizabethton · 28 mi
- Asheville · 29 mi
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