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Old 10-17-2007, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Atlanta suburb
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Clingman's Dome in the Smokey's is the highest point in Tennessee at 6643 feet. I've been to the top of it . . . it's a little chilly up there in the morning, even in summer.
Wow! Fantastic, alleycat. Where is Clingman's Dome? Is it heavily wooded or can you get some beautiful views? Gotta go there.
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Old 10-17-2007, 12:32 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Wow! Fantastic, alleycat. Where is Clingman's Dome? Is it heavily wooded or can you get some beautiful views? Gotta go there.
They've built an observation "tower" on the top of it now, I believe. The only negative I hear is that some of the trees have been killed due to blight. It's been a few years since I've been.
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Old 10-17-2007, 12:54 PM
 
Location: Memphis
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Clingman's Dome is in Sevier County, about 20 miles from Gatlinburg. This has some more info on it:
Clingmans Dome, Tennessee (broken link)

We have some other peaks that are 6,000+ and multiple ones that are well over 5,000 feet. I'll try to find the page that lists them.
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Old 10-17-2007, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Naples, FL & Monterey, TN
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Nice info here.
Tennessee Summits Above 4,000 Feet (broken link)

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Old 10-17-2007, 01:09 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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Last time I was at Clingman's entire patches of the forest had died out of the blight.
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Old 10-17-2007, 01:21 PM
 
Location: Kingsport, TN
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Where is Clingman's Dome? Is it heavily wooded or can you get some beautiful views? Gotta go there.
Clingman's Dome is in the Smokies, a 7-mile drive from Newfound Gap Road. Two images of the 54-foot tower, which is a 1/2 mile walk (paved) from the parking lot:
http://web.umr.edu/~mstauter/highpoint/cling.jpg (broken link)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Snowy_Day.JPG

The balsam woolly adelgid, a sap-suckin' little critter that made its way over from Europe, is largely responsible for the forest of Fraser fir skeletons on top of the mountain.

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Old 11-21-2007, 02:02 PM
 
Location: Hometown of Jason Witten
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Shady Valley is a picturesque community in rural Johnson County. To leave there without climbing a mountain one must travel northward into Virginia.
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Old 11-21-2007, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Hometown of Jason Witten
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Wow. Being on the second floor makes me nervous.
I'm so afraid of heights that I've considered surgery that would make me a couple of inches shorter.
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