Shields Mountain
Shields Mountain rises to 614 m in Tennessee. Mount le Conte - High Top stands 2,010 m to the south-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Seaton Top, a peak less than a tenth of a mile away. Newfound Gap Road Byway passes 7.2 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Tennessee, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31687539, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 614 m
How to reach it
- 7.2 mi off the Newfound Gap Road Byway, National
- 19.4 mi off the East Tennessee Crossing, National
- 22.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 25.0 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
- Parrot Mountain and Gardens: 1.6 mi
- Tennessee Tornado: 2.3 mi
- Wild Eagle: 2.4 mi
- Lumberjack Lift: 2.4 mi
- Thunderhead: 2.4 mi
- Thousand Drips: 6.6 mi
- Baskins Creek Falls: 7.7 mi
- Cataract Falls: 8.5 mi
- Grotto Falls: 9.4 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 10.1 mi
- Seaton Top: 0.0 mi
- Painters Knob: 0.8 mi
- Davids Knob: 1.9 mi
- Sand Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Bearwallow Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Patriot Park: 3.7 mi
- Sevierville City Park: 5.3 mi
- Mills Park: 5.4 mi
- Wear Farm City Park: 5.5 mi
- Paine Memorial Park: 6.2 mi
- The Shinbone: 1.9 mi
- East End: 9.1 mi
- Cat Stairs: 9.3 mi
- Sheepwalk Bluff: 10.5 mi
- Eight Acre Bluff: 11.4 mi
- Chasing Rainbows Museum: 2.6 mi
- Tennessee Museum of Aviation: 4.5 mi
- Alcatraz East Crime Museum: 4.6 mi
- Cooter's Place: 4.7 mi
- Sevier County Heritage Museum: 5.9 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
- Greenbrier Picnic Pavilion: 9.2 mi
- Chimneys Picnic Area: 11.7 mi
- Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Tremont Picnic Area: 16.0 mi
- Patriot Park Liberty Bell: 3.6 mi
- Patriot Park Patriot Missile: 3.7 mi
- Dolly Parton childhood home: 5.7 mi
- 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops Memorial: 8.0 mi
- Sugarlands Stone Cabin: 10.4 mi
- Greenbrier: 7.9 mi
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 11.9 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 23.2 mi
- William Hastie Natural Area: 23.3 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 23.5 mi
- Fish: 3.9 mi
- Veterans Statue: 6.0 mi
- Dolly Parton: 6.0 mi
- Bear: 6.3 mi
- Strong rock spring: 19.1 mi
- Burnett Spring: 19.7 mi
- Brakeshoe Spring: 19.9 mi
- Mouse Creek Spring: 21.8 mi
- Vista Gardens: 6.7 mi
- Van Lester Estate: 22.2 mi
- Bamboo Forest: 24.5 mi
- Jefferson County I-40 East Rest Area: 17.5 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center - Cocke County: 18.6 mi
- I-81 Jefferson County West: 21.2 mi
- Emerts Cove Covered Bridge: 5.8 mi
- Elkmont: 11.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Shields Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount le Conte - High Top | SSE 164° | 2,010 m | 10.9 mi |
| Mount Le Conte | SSE 164° | 2,004 m | 10.9 mi |
| Cliff Top | SSE 166° | 1,997 m | 10.8 mi |
| Myrtle Point | SSE 163° | 1,992 m | 11.1 mi |
| West Point | SSE 169° | 1,937 m | 10.7 mi |
| Balsam Point | S 175° | 1,774 m | 10.6 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | SSE 159° | 1,499 m | 9.5 mi |
| Lookout Rock | SSE 159° | 1,354 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 | 19:32 |
| 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1270062 — Shields Mountain, Sevier County, Tennessee.
OpenStreetMap element node/356775394
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