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Snake Mountain, North Carolina

Prominence: 2240 ft, 683 m

Elevation: 5560+ feet, 1695+ meters

True Isolation: 15.99 mi, 25.73 km

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 5560 - 5600 ft (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 5560 ft / 1695 m (Range 5560 - 5600 ft)
Subpeaks	Snake Mountain - North Peak (5518 ft/1682 m)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	36° 19' 52'' N, 81° 42' 28'' W 36.331038, -81.70767 (Dec Deg) 436487 E 4020899 N, Zone 17 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	North Carolina
County/Second Level Region	Watauga
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Snake Mountain": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Snake Mountain at SummitPost.org Snake Mountain at ListsOfJohn.com Weather for Snake Mountain North Carolina at Mountain-Forecast.com Snake Mountain at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio) Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Snake Mountain: Eastern USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #51) Southeast USA Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #18) Southeast USA Top 50 by Prominence (Rank #18) Eastern USA 5000-foot Peaks (Rank #85) USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #433) North Carolina 5000-foot Peaks (Rank #76) North Carolina Peaks with 1000 feet of Prominence (Rank #11) Southern USA Peaks with 1000 feet of Prominence (Rank #18)
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 75 Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 71) Selected Trip Reports: 2007-05 by Tom Layton 2011-11-13 by Ken Jones (GPS Track) 2012-07-04 by jeff branin 2014-08-03 by Bradley R (GPS Track) 2015-10-17 by Dylan Addis 2017-04-02 by Zachary Robbins (GPS Track) 2017-04-09 by Zachary Robbins (GPS Track) 2017-11-30 by Henry Pharr 2019-11-10 by James Barlow (GPS Track) 2019-12-30 by William Sanderson 2020-10-26 by Douglas Harris 2020-11-06 by Craig Barlow 2021-03-11 by Steven Fishback (GPS Track) 2021-04-27 by Steve Hiker 2021-11-20 by Henry Pharr 2022-12-10 by Powen Ru (GPS Track) 2022-12-17 by David Winston (GPS Track)
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Game land sign along Rich Mountain Road, with the high point of Snake Mountain in the background (2019-12-30). Photo by William Sanderson.
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Prominence

Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 2240 ft/683 m
  Optimistic Prominence: 2320 ft/707 m
  Line Parent: Calloway Peak - East Summit
  Key Col: Hodges Gap    3320 ft/1012 m

Isolation

Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)
   Distance: 15.99 mi/25.73 km
   Isolation Limit Point: 36.1142, -81.8092
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
    Calloway Peak - East Summit  (SSW)

Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Appalachian Mountains
Range3: Blue Ridge Mountains
Range4: Western Blue Ridge Ranges
Range5: Beech-Snake-Rich (Highest Point)

Drainage Basins

New
Kanawha
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean

Watauga
South Fork Holston
Holston
Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean

Topo Map

Zionville O36081c6 1:24,000

Data Source

1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map

Dynamic Map

Snake Mountain

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Other Photos

This is looking south towards the Snake Mtn summit from the ridgeline a short ways from the Johnson County HP (2021-02-21). Photo by Jeff Rinehart.
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