Mount Love
Mount Love rises to 1,956 m in North Carolina. Kuwohi stands 2,025 m to the southwest, 0.4 miles off. Newfound Gap Road Byway passes 4.2 miles off.
The story
mountain in Tennessee, United States of America
Wikidata Q31660297, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1955.79 m
How to reach it
- 4.2 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 9.5 mi off the Nantahala Byway
- 11.6 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 13.1 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Deep Creek Valley Overlook #1 · 5 mi
- Deep Creek Valley Overlook · 5 mi
- Deep Creek Valley Overlook #2 · 5 mi
- Newfound Gap Overlook · 5 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kuwohi: 0.4 mi
- Mt. Buckley: 0.8 mi
- Mount Collins: 1.8 mi
- Andrews Bald: 1.9 mi
- Round Top Knob: 2.2 mi
- Rock Slab Falls: 1.7 mi
- Little River Upper Falls: 2.6 mi
- Talking Falls: 3.6 mi
- Trickling Falls: 4.0 mi
- War Branch Cascade: 4.2 mi
- Arch Rock: 5.9 mi
- Flat Branch boat launch: 9.4 mi
- Rail Runner: 9.9 mi
- Hellbender: 9.9 mi
- Birdventure: 10.0 mi
- Mynatt Park: 9.4 mi
- Swain County Recreation Park: 9.5 mi
- David Monteith Park: 9.5 mi
- Ela Tuckkasegee River Public Access: 9.7 mi
- MacNeill Park: 9.8 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Museum: 9.8 mi
- Swain County Visitor Center and Heritage Museum: 10.0 mi
- Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians: 10.0 mi
- Hollywood Star Cars Museum: 10.0 mi
- Ripley's Believe It Or Not!: 10.1 mi
- Fort Harry: 5.1 mi
- Sugarlands Stone Cabin: 6.4 mi
- Swain County War Dead Memorial: 10.0 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops Memorial: 10.1 mi
- Nimrod Jarett Smith: 11.5 mi
- Alum Cave: 5.6 mi
- The Jumpoff: 7.5 mi
- Eagle Rocks: 12.8 mi
- Cliff: 13.1 mi
- Cat Stairs: 13.3 mi
- Chimneys Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Deep Creek Picnic Area: 7.9 mi
- Deep Creek Picnic Pavilion: 8.0 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion: 11.2 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
- Bear: 10.4 mi
- Selu Statue: 12.6 mi
- Fish: 15.7 mi
- Confederate Soldiers Monument: 20.0 mi
- Sylva Mural: 20.2 mi
- Vista Gardens: 9.9 mi
- Bamboo Forest: 11.5 mi
- Sylva Community Garden: 20.0 mi
- Annie Dee Leatherman Smith Memorial Garden: 21.8 mi
- Cullowhee Community Garden: 24.6 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 4.7 mi
- Greenbrier: 12.2 mi
- Nantahala National Forest: 24.4 mi
- Brakeshoe Spring: 22.7 mi
- Mouse Creek Spring: 22.9 mi
- Emerts Cove Covered Bridge: 13.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.5 miles of Mount Love. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwohi | SW 226° | 2,024.79 m | 0.4 mi |
| Mount le Conte - High Top | NNE 28° | 2,009.55 m | 6.8 mi |
| Mt. Buckley | WSW 246° | 2,004.12 m | 0.8 mi |
| Mount Le Conte | NNE 28° | 2,004 m | 6.8 mi |
| Cliff Top | NNE 24° | 1,996.55 m | 6.6 mi |
| Myrtle Point | NNE 30° | 1,991.56 m | 6.9 mi |
| West Point | NNE 20° | 1,937.31 m | 6.5 mi |
| Mount Kephart | NE 53° | 1,895.27 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:12 | 19:46 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:16 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:23 | 18:59 | 19:32 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:46 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 56 | 62 | 66 | 64 | 60 | 50 | 41 | 35 |
| Precip in | 6.8 | 6.0 | 6.6 | 6.0 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 7.3 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 5.9 | 7.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newfound GAP, 5 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Jan and Feb; busiest: Oct.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357811213
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