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Thunderhead Mountain is a 5,527-foot (1,685 m) mountain in the west-central part of the Great Smoky Mountains, located in the southeastern United States. Rising along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, the mountain dominates the western Smokies. The Appalachian Trail crosses its summit, making it a popular hiking destination.
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The memorial master plan includes the mountain carving monument, a Native American Museum of North America, and a Native American Cultural Center. The monument is being carved out of Thunderhead Mountain, on land considered sacred by some Oglala Lakota, between Custer and Hill City, roughly 17 miles (27 km) from Mount Rushmore. [4]
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Rocky Top is a subpeak of Thunderhead Mountain, which overlooks Cades Cove, and is traversed by the Appalachian Trail. [22] Rocky Top appears on maps of the western Smokies as early as 1934, [23] and has been a popular hiking destination since the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created during the same period. The rocky outcropping at ...
Bote Mountain is a mountain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Tennessee, in the United States. [ 1 ] Bote Mountain is located in the Great Smoky Mountains , which began forming in the late Carboniferous and through the early Triassic , approximately 310 to 245 million years ago .
Thunderhead sandstone, part of the Ocoee Supergroup, was formed from Precambrian ocean sediments approximately one billion years ago. [4] The Greenbrier Fault, which crosses the mountain's northern and eastern slopes, [ 5 ] thrust the Thunderhead sandstone over the Rich Butt sandstone during the Paleozoic era. [ 3 ]