Painters Knob
Painters Knob rises to 552 m in Tennessee. Mount le Conte - High Top stands 2,010 m to the south-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Shields Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Newfound Gap Road Byway passes 6.7 miles off.
The story
mountain in the United States of America
Wikidata Q31682113, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 552 m
How to reach it
- 6.7 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 20.1 mi off the East Tennessee Crossing, National
- 22.9 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 24.9 mi off the Nantahala Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Carlos Campbell Overlook · 10 mi
- Ben Morton Overlook · 14 mi
- Newfound Gap Overlook · 14 mi
- Deep Creek Valley Overlook · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Shields Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Seaton Top: 0.8 mi
- Davids Knob: 1.3 mi
- Sand Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Sugar Camp Knob: 4.0 mi
- Parrot Mountain and Gardens: 1.1 mi
- Tennessee Tornado: 1.6 mi
- Wild Eagle: 1.6 mi
- Lumberjack Lift: 1.6 mi
- Thunderhead: 1.7 mi
- Patriot Park: 2.9 mi
- Wear Farm City Park: 4.8 mi
- Sevierville City Park: 5.0 mi
- Mills Park: 5.5 mi
- Paine Memorial Park: 5.9 mi
- Thousand Drips: 6.4 mi
- Baskins Creek Falls: 7.5 mi
- Cataract Falls: 8.1 mi
- Grotto Falls: 9.4 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 10.0 mi
- The Shinbone: 2.5 mi
- East End: 8.4 mi
- Cat Stairs: 9.8 mi
- Sheepwalk Bluff: 10.4 mi
- Eight Acre Bluff: 11.2 mi
- Chasing Rainbows Museum: 1.8 mi
- Alcatraz East Crime Museum: 3.8 mi
- Cooter's Place: 4.0 mi
- Tennessee Museum of Aviation: 4.3 mi
- Sevier County Heritage Museum: 5.6 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion: 9.5 mi
- Chimneys Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
- Tremont Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Patriot Park Liberty Bell: 2.8 mi
- Patriot Park Patriot Missile: 2.9 mi
- Dolly Parton childhood home: 6.5 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops Memorial: 7.5 mi
- Sugarlands Stone Cabin: 10.1 mi
- Greenbrier: 8.3 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 11.7 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 22.7 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 22.7 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 22.9 mi
- Fish: 3.1 mi
- Veterans Statue: 5.7 mi
- Dolly Parton: 5.7 mi
- Bear: 6.0 mi
- Vista Gardens: 6.4 mi
- Van Lester Estate: 22.7 mi
- Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum: 24.5 mi
- Bamboo Forest: 24.6 mi
- Strong rock spring: 18.9 mi
- Burnett Spring: 20.4 mi
- Brakeshoe Spring: 20.6 mi
- Mouse Creek Spring: 22.4 mi
- Jefferson County I-40 East Rest Area: 18.0 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center - Cocke County: 19.3 mi
- I-81 Jefferson County West: 21.7 mi
- Emerts Cove Covered Bridge: 6.2 mi
- Elkmont: 11.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Painters Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount le Conte - High Top | SSE 160° | 2,009.55 m | 10.9 mi |
| Mount Le Conte | SSE 160° | 2,004 m | 10.9 mi |
| Cliff Top | SSE 162° | 1,996.55 m | 10.8 mi |
| Myrtle Point | SSE 159° | 1,991.56 m | 11.1 mi |
| West Point | SSE 165° | 1,937.31 m | 10.6 mi |
| Balsam Point | S 171° | 1,773.94 m | 10.5 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | SSE 155° | 1,498.69 m | 9.6 mi |
| Lookout Rock | SSE 154° | 1,354.1 m | 8.8 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, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1296675 — Painters Knob, Sevier County, Tennessee.
OpenStreetMap element node/356825780
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