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The Pinnacle, North Carolina

Prominence: 465 ft, 142 m

Elevation: 5665 feet, 1727 meters

True Isolation: 1.67 mi, 2.69 km

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 5665 ft / 1727 m
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	35° 42' 16'' N, 82° 16' 31'' W 35.704308, -82.275411 (Dec Deg) 384620 E 3951902 N, Zone 17 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	North Carolina
County/Second Level Region	Buncombe McDowell (Highest Point) Yancey
Links Search Engines - search the web for "The Pinnacle": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Blue Ridge Pinnacle at SummitPost.org Pinnacle at ListsOfJohn.com CoHP.org Trip Report for McDowell, NC by Ron Tagliapietra CoHP.org Trip Report for McDowell, NC by John Garner CoHP.org Trip Report for McDowell, NC by Don Desrosiers CoHP.org Trip Report for McDowell, NC by Shannon Dillmore Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain The Pinnacle: North Carolina 5000-foot Peaks (Rank #65) Eastern U.S. County High Points over 4500 feet (Rank #17) North Carolina County High Points (Rank #11) Eastern USA 5000-foot Peaks (Rank #74) Fifty Highest Eastern CoHPs (Rank #13) Southern USA CoHPs (Rank #22) High Points of Counties in 13 Original States (Rank #14) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 2000-05-26 by Scott Surgent 2010-07-04 by Tom Layton 2012-05-18 by Dennis Poulin (GPS Track) 2012-06-06 by jeff branin 2012-08-23 by Dave Dunham 2012-09-02 by Coby King 2014-01-26 by Brian Buchanan 2014-12-15 by Zachary Robbins (GPS Track) 2016-07-17 by Bradley Reese (GPS Track) 2017-05-07 by Zachary Robbins (GPS Track) 2017-07-14 by Henry Pharr 2019-02-14 by Henry Pharr View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (68 total) Nearby Peak Searches: Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to The Pinnacle Elevation Ladder from The Pinnacle Prominence Ladder from The Pinnacle

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Prominence

Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 465 ft/142 m
  Optimistic Prominence: 505 ft/154 m
  Line Parent: Potato Knob
  Key Col: Black Mountain Gap    5200 ft/1585 m

Isolation

Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)
   Distance: 1.67 mi/2.69 km
   Isolation Limit Point: 35.7267, -82.2867
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
    Potato Knob  (NNW)

Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Appalachian Mountains
Range3: Blue Ridge Mountains
Range4: Southern Blue Ridge Front
Range5: N NC Blue Ridge Crest

Ridges/Divides

Appalachian Divide
South Blue Ridge

Drainage Basins

Major Triple Divide Point

Catawba
Wateree
Santee
Atlantic Ocean

French Broad
Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean

Nolichucky
French Broad
Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean

Ownership

Land: National Forests in North Carolina

Topo Map

Montreat O35082f3 1:24,000

Data Source

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