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Percys Peak, North Carolina

Prominence: 80 ft, 25 m

Elevation: 6200+ feet, 1890+ meters

True Isolation: 0.26 mi, 0.41 km

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 6200 - 6240 ft (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 6200 ft / 1890 m (Range 6200 - 6240 ft)
Alternate Name(s)	Horse Rock
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	35° 50' 53'' N, 82° 14' 51'' W 35.848025, -82.247469 (Dec Deg) 387350 E 3967811 N, Zone 17 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	North Carolina
County/Second Level Region	Yancey
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Percys Peak": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Horse Rock at SummitPost.org Horse Rock at ListsOfJohn.com Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Percys Peak: Southern Appalachian 6000-foot Peaks (Unranked) Eastern USA 5000-foot Peaks (Unranked) North Carolina 5000-foot Peaks (Unranked)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 54 Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 50) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 2010-10-09 by Nathan Sylvester 2010-10-31 by pat stout 2012-06-07 by jeff branin 2013-07-21 by Albert Wolff (GPS Track) 2013-07-28 by Albert Wolff (GPS Track) 2014-05-17 by Marcus Lostracco (GPS Track) 2015-03-08 by Keith Turner 2015-05-20 by Curtis Bowden 2016-03-12 by Bryan Marchant 2019-06-21 by Henry Pharr 2019-07-18 by Henry Pharr 2019-08-10 by Zachary Robbins (GPS Track)
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Many USGS maps have the label "Horse Rock" near this peak. However, that name refers only to a rock outcrop nearby, below the summit some distance. The mountain properly has been given an official name of "Percys Peak" by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names.

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Prominence	Key Col Page (Detailed prominence information) Clean Prominence: 80 ft/25 m Optimistic Prominence: 160 ft/49 m Line Parent: Celo Knob Key Col: 6120 ft/1865 m
Isolation	Isolation Page (Detailed isolation information) Distance: 0.26 mi/0.41 km Isolation Limit Point: 35.8517, -82.2483 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database: Celo Knob (N)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Appalachian Mountains Range3: Blue Ridge Mountains Range4: Central Blue Ridge Ranges Range5: Black Mountains
Ridges/Divides	Black Mountains Crest
Drainage Basins	Nolichucky French Broad Tennessee Ohio Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: National Forests in North Carolina
Topo Map	Celo O35082g2 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map

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