Piney Butt
Piney Butt rises to 688 m in Tennessee. Mount le Conte - High Top stands 2,010 m to the southeast, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is SkyCenter, a attraction 1.0 miles away. Newfound Gap Road Byway passes 1.3 miles off.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q31683513, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 688 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 19.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 20.2 mi off the Nantahala Byway
- 22.9 mi off the Indian Lakes Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Carlos Campbell Overlook · 4 mi
- Ben Morton Overlook · 10 mi
- Newfound Gap Overlook · 10 mi
- Deep Creek Valley Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- SkyCenter: 1.0 mi
- Mysterious Mansion: 1.1 mi
- Amazing Mirror Maze: 1.2 mi
- Ripley's Haunted Adventure: 1.2 mi
- Ghostly Adventure Motion Theater: 1.3 mi
- Cataract Falls: 2.3 mi
- Thousand Drips: 3.0 mi
- Baskins Creek Falls: 3.5 mi
- Laurel Falls: 4.5 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 5.8 mi
- Briar Knob: 1.5 mi
- Caney High Top: 1.8 mi
- Holy Butt: 1.9 mi
- Mount Harrison: 2.8 mi
- Sugar Camp Knob: 2.9 mi
- Mynatt Park: 1.8 mi
- Patriot Park: 4.6 mi
- Mills Park: 5.0 mi
- Wear Farm City Park: 5.8 mi
- Sevierville City Park: 9.4 mi
- Ripley's Believe It Or Not!: 1.2 mi
- Hollywood Star Cars Museum: 1.2 mi
- The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum;The Salt & Pepper Shaker Museum: 1.9 mi
- Chasing Rainbows Museum: 5.0 mi
- Alcatraz East Crime Museum: 5.8 mi
- Alum Cave: 7.7 mi
- The Shinbone: 8.2 mi
- East End: 9.2 mi
- Cat Stairs: 9.9 mi
- The Jumpoff: 10.2 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Patriot Park Liberty Bell: 4.6 mi
- Patriot Park Patriot Missile: 4.6 mi
- Sugarlands Stone Cabin: 4.7 mi
- Fort Harry: 6.7 mi
- Chimneys Picnic Area: 6.5 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion: 8.4 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
- Tremont Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 6.3 mi
- Greenbrier: 8.0 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 24.0 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 24.3 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 24.3 mi
- Bear: 1.8 mi
- Fish: 4.7 mi
- Veterans Statue: 10.1 mi
- Dolly Parton: 10.2 mi
- Selu Statue: 21.8 mi
- Brakeshoe Spring: 21.8 mi
- Strong rock spring: 22.7 mi
- Mouse Creek Spring: 23.1 mi
- Burnett Spring: 24.8 mi
- Vista Gardens: 1.9 mi
- Bamboo Forest: 20.7 mi
- Emerts Cove Covered Bridge: 6.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Piney Butt. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount le Conte - High Top | SE 131° | 2,010 m | 7.3 mi |
| Mount Le Conte | SE 131° | 2,004 m | 7.3 mi |
| Cliff Top | SE 133° | 1,997 m | 6.9 mi |
| Myrtle Point | SE 130° | 1,992 m | 7.5 mi |
| West Point | SE 136° | 1,937 m | 6.6 mi |
| Anakeesta Knob | SE 132° | 1,827 m | 9.1 mi |
| Balsam Point | SE 144° | 1,774 m | 5.9 mi |
| Mount Mingus | SSE 150° | 1,764 m | 8.4 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, 2 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/356827125
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