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Kuwohi
- Easiest route
- 1.0 km+101 m · about 0.5 h
- Prominence
- 1,373 m4,506 ft
- Isolation
- 114 km
- Tonight
- 39°FFair · Wind 5 mph SE
Kuwohi is a 2,025 m (6,644 ft) mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, United States.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,025 m · 6,644 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Mitchell (2,037 m)
- Range
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Region
- Tennessee, United States
- Protected area
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Spanish name
- Clingmans Dome
- Coordinates
- 35.5628° N, 83.4986° W
How to get to the top of Kuwohi
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Forney Ridge Trailhead (trailhead)
- Distance
- 1.0 kmone way
- Climb
- +101 m(331 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Kuwohi 3D map
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Kuwohi terrain and contours
50 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Forney Ridge Trailhead. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Kuwohi weather
Tonight · Fair · 39°F (4°C) · Wind 5 mph SE
Kuwohi forecast for the summit, about 1,606 m.
- Tonight39°–5 mph SE
- Sat38°55°–0–5 mph NE
- Sun37°58°–0–5 mph NE
- Mon43°59°–5 mph W
- Tue44°62°–0 mph
- Wed42°60°–0–5 mph S
- Thu44°61°1%0–5 mph SW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 23:25 UTC.
Camping & parking near Kuwohi
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Kuwohi, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.5 km ENE
Nearest trailhead
Forney Ridge Trailhead
Nearest campsite
Steeltrap #68
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.5 km ENE |
| Forney Ridge TrailheadTrailhead | 0.7 km SSE |
| Parking | 0.7 km SSE |
| Parking | 1.6 km ENE |
| Steeltrap #68Campsite | 2.3 km SSW |
| Three Forks #30Campsite | 3.9 km NNW |
| Double Spring Gap ShelterCampsite | 4.0 km W |
| Fork Ridge Trail TrailheadTrailhead | 4.0 km NE |
| Deep Creek TrailheadTrailhead | 8.0 km ENE |
How steep is the route to Kuwohi?
The easiest mapped route, 1.0 km from 1,923 m to 2,025 m. Steepest stretch: 11°.
- 0–15°1.0 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4.7 km, measured from the Kuwohi summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Mount Love1,956 m 0.7 km NE
- 2Mt. Buckley2,004 m 0.7 km W
- 3Andrews Bald1,801 m 2.7 km S
- 4Mount Collins1,889 m 3.5 km NE
- 5Round Top Knob1,574 m 3.8 km ESE
- 6Jerry Bald1,558 m 4.0 km SSE
- 7Jenkins Knob1,698 m 4.2 km W
- 8Buckhorn Bald1,487 m 4.5 km SSW
Where Kuwohi sits
- Region
- Tennessee15United States932North America1,313
- Protected area
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park6
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Kuwohi downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,025 m at the summit; the official height is 2,025 m.
A 10 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,025 m | — |
| USGS 3DEP lidar | 2,025 m | 0 m |
| USGS 3DEP 10 m (used on this page) | 2,025 m | 0 m |
| Copernicus GLO-30 | 2,029 m | +4 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,027 m | +2 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-25)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia