Map of the Great Smoky Mountains
The whole Great Smoky Mountains on real terrain, from our satellite elevation model — the full arc masked to the range’s mapped boundary, with 5 of its great peaks pinned (each labelled with its surveyed height). Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome) tops them all at 6,644 ft (2,025 m). Drag to spin it (two-finger to orbit on mobile).
Where are the Great Smoky Mountains?
The Great Smoky Mountains lie entirely within the United States. The area below is this page’s own measurement — the range boundary intersected with the outline of the United States, by true (geodesic) area.
| Country | Share of range | Area |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 100.0% | 1,221 mi² (3,161 km²) |
Range boundary: GMBA Mountain Inventory v2.0 (standard extent). Country outlines: geoBoundaries ADM0. Computed range area 3,161 km² — within about 1% of GMBA’s published 3,168 km².
The highest peak: Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome)
The highest point of the Great Smoky Mountains is Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome), at 6,644 ft (2,025 m) — the highest point on the Appalachian Trail.
Zooming to the roof of the range — a fine ~62 m model of the Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome) massif.
Great peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains
A curated selection — the highest summits along the Smokies crest, chosen for fame and spread rather than by a strict height cutoff. Each is pinned on the map above; the heights here are the surveyed figures.
| Peak | Elevation | Country | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome)highest | 6,644 ft (2,025 m) | Tennessee / North Carolina | Highest in the Smokies and on the Appalachian Trail |
| Mount Guyot | 6,621 ft (2,018 m) | Tennessee / North Carolina | Second-highest in the park; remote |
| Mount Le Conte | 6,594 ft (2,010 m) | Sevier Co., Tennessee | Highest peak entirely in Tennessee; among the greatest base-to-summit relief east of the Rockies |
| Mount Kephart | 6,217 ft (1,895 m) | Tennessee / North Carolina | On the Appalachian Trail near Newfound Gap |
| Mount Collins | 6,188 ft (1,886 m) | Tennessee / North Carolina | Along the crest between Kuwohi and Newfound Gap |
Relief and elevation range
Across the mapped range the land runs from about 810 ft (247 m) on the valley floors to 6,611 ft (2,015 m) at the highest ground — a vertical range of 5,801 ft (1,768 m), which puts the Great Smoky Mountains in the moderate-relief class. The mean elevation is 2,959 ft (902 m) and the median 2,815 ft (858 m); the two sitting close together says the height is spread broadly across the range, not concentrated in a few peaks over otherwise low ground.
The distribution above is the share of the range’s area at each elevation, computed from the same satellite model as the maps. It reads the Great Smoky Mountains as a true massif — a large area held high — rather than a thin crest.
Great Smoky Mountains FAQ
- How many countries do the Great Smoky Mountains cross?
- The Great Smoky Mountains lie entirely within the United States — a single country.
- How were the Great Smoky Mountains formed?
- The Great Smoky Mountains are part of the ancient Appalachians — very old rock crumpled and stacked by continental collisions hundreds of millions of years ago, then worn down and rounded by long erosion.
- Is Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome) the highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains?
- Yes. Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome), at 6,644 ft (2,025 m), is the highest point anywhere in the Great Smoky Mountains. The next-highest of the peaks pinned here, Mount Guyot, is about 23 ft (7 m) lower.
Related ranges
More of the world’s mountains, rendered the same way — explore other ranges in 3D.
- Blue Ridge Mountains↑ Mount Mitchell, 6,683 ft (2,037 m)
- AppalachiansMean 2,034 ft (620 m)
- Ozarks↑ Turner Ward Knob, 2,454 ft (748 m)
- Catskills↑ Slide Mountain, 4,180 ft (1,274 m)
- Adirondacks↑ Mount Marcy, 5,344 ft (1,629 m)
- White Mountains↑ Mount Washington, 6,289 ft (1,917 m)
Elevation from Copernicus GLO-30 (ESA), sampled over the range and masked to its boundary. The range boundary is the GMBA Mountain Inventory v2.0 (standard extent; Snethlage et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Country outlines from geoBoundaries. Every figure on this page is computed from these sources; the surveyed Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome) height is the one exception, cited above. See the methodology. Data as of 2026-08-22.