The Horseshoe
The Horseshoe rises to 557 m in Tennessee. Ross Mountain stands 715 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is North Chick Corridor, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway passes 7.0 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Tennessee, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31674756, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 557 m
How to reach it
- 7.0 mi off the Sequatchie Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 14.3 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
- 29.9 mi off the Cohutta-Chattahoochee Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Umbrella Rock · 15 mi
- Ropers Rock · 15 mi
- Point Park Tour Stop #4 - Western Overlook & Wauhatchie · 16 mi
- Point Park Tour Stop #2 - Parrott Gun Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mining Ruins: 5.2 mi
- Judge M.M. Allison: 6.2 mi
- Hamilton Memorial Gardens: 8.9 mi
- Site #1 - Fibrothers Mine: 9.1 mi
- Site #2 - Ore Car Path: 9.2 mi
- Buck Knob: 1.9 mi
- The Hellican: 2.2 mi
- Barker Pounds: 4.1 mi
- Mailbox Hill: 5.8 mi
- Round Knob: 5.8 mi
- The Pumpkin Patch: 5.9 mi
- Andy Anderton Park: 6.5 mi
- Walden's Ridge Park: 6.7 mi
- Veterans Park: 7.5 mi
- Signal Mountain Boy Scout Park: 7.6 mi
- Mystery Falls 8: 2.9 mi
- Vortex Falls: 3.4 mi
- Falling Water Falls 110: 4.7 mi
- Cooper Creek Falls: 5.0 mi
- Stevenson Branch Falls: 5.0 mi
- The Suck: 8.4 mi
- Jeep: 8.8 mi
- UH-1: 8.9 mi
- M113: 8.9 mi
- Flat Top Mountain Farm: 11.3 mi
- Cumberland Escarpment: 5.6 mi
- Edwards Point: 7.5 mi
- Signal Point: 8.2 mi
- Wilder Point: 8.4 mi
- James Point: 8.5 mi
- Coke Oven Museum: 10.5 mi
- Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center: 12.6 mi
- Houston Museum of Decorative Arts: 12.7 mi
- Creative Discovery Museum: 12.8 mi
- Siskin Museum of Religious Artifacts: 13.2 mi
- North Chick Corridor: 1.2 mi
- Cartter Patten Easement: 2.4 mi
- North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area - Williams Unit: 7.7 mi
- North Chickamauga Creek Wildlife Management Area - Sutton Unit: 9.0 mi
- TVA Big Ridge Small Wild Area: 10.9 mi
- Woodland Tiger: 12.0 mi
- In Town Gallery: 12.2 mi
- Shakespeare: 12.3 mi
- The Rhino: 12.3 mi
- Ruth Holmberg Memorial: 12.6 mi
- rain garden: 8.1 mi
- Blue Cross Garden: 12.7 mi
- Blue Cross Orchard Garden: 12.8 mi
- Wild Ones Pollinator Garden: 15.7 mi
- Rock City Gardens: 18.1 mi
- Burnt Cabin Springhouse: 7.6 mi
- Obar Spring: 15.1 mi
- Straight Spring: 18.0 mi
- Pryor Cave Spring: 18.4 mi
- Schwoon Spring: 21.0 mi
- Chester Frost Park Beach: 11.4 mi
- Chickamauga Dam Beach: 11.7 mi
- Booker T. Washington Park Beach: 12.7 mi
- Harrison Bay Park Beach: 13.1 mi
- Saddleback Platform: 9.1 mi
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 18.9 mi
- Georgia Visitor Information Center - I 75 South: 21.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 14.0 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 18.9 mi
- Foster Falls Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
- Natural Bridge: 11.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.8 miles of The Horseshoe. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Mountain | WNW 300° | 715 m | 16.1 mi |
| Bunker Hill | NW 312° | 703 m | 12.5 mi |
| Lockhart Hill | NNW 333° | 694 m | 17.2 mi |
| Price Mountain | NNW 329° | 689 m | 17.3 mi |
| Flat Mountain | NNW 331° | 684 m | 14.3 mi |
| Jakes Mountain | NNW 337° | 670 m | 22.0 mi |
| Wolfpen Mountain | NNW 338° | 664 m | 18.1 mi |
| Stocker Hill | WNW 295° | 654 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:20 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 19:22 | 20:00 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:06 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 06:47 | 15:54 | 16:34 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 66 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 69 | 59 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 6.3 | 5.0 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 6.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Soddy Daisy-mowbray MTN, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356779036
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- Chattanooga · 13 mi
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