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Shining Rock, North Carolina

Prominence: 240 ft, 73 m

Elevation: 6000+ feet, 1829+ meters

True Isolation: 1.32 mi, 2.12 km

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 6000 - 6040 ft (40-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 6000 ft / 1829 m (Range 6000 - 6040 ft)
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	35° 22' 6'' N, 82° 51' 46'' W 35.368301, -82.862684 (Dec Deg) 330782 E 3915480 N, Zone 17 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	North Carolina
County/Second Level Region	Haywood
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Shining Rock": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Shining Rock at SummitPost.org Shining Rock at ListsOfJohn.com Weather for Shining Rock at Mountain-Forecast.com Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Shining Rock: Southern Appalachian 6000-foot Peaks (Rank #34) South Beyond 6000 (Rank #39) Eastern USA 5000-foot Peaks (Rank #35) North Carolina 5000-foot Peaks (Rank #33)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 171 Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 157) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 1984-06 by William Sanderson 1993-08 c by William Musser 1993-08 g by William Musser 2002-02-12 by Kevin Hessler 2005-10-15 by Pete Brennan 2011-05-14 by Nathan Sylvester 2011-05-15 by Nathan Sylvester 2011-05-28 by Jim Johnson, Jr (Unsuccessful) 2011-09-10 by Tom Layton 2012-08-05 by Mike Stinson 2012-11-12 by matthew mccracken (GPS Track) 2014-10-25 by Albert Wolff (GPS Track) 2014-12-14 by Bradley Reese (GPS Track) 2015-07-04 by Brian McCray 2017-03-25 by Debbie Adams 2017-10-12 by Ken Durham 2018-01-21 by Zachary Robbins (GPS Track) 2018-03-17 by Marcus Lostracco 2018-05-27 by Caitlin Roscioli 2018-06-17 by Erick Weigel 2018-06-23 by Jonathan Blackwell (GPS Track) 2019-09-14 by Jayson H (GPS Track) 2019-11-11 by Mike Trimble
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Still one of my all-time favorite vistas (2014-03-15). Photo by Seamus Allman. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page (Detailed prominence information) Clean Prominence: 240 ft/73 m Optimistic Prominence: 320 ft/97 m Line Parent: Grassy Cove Top Key Col: 5760 ft/1756 m
Isolation	Isolation Page (Detailed isolation information) Distance: 1.32 mi/2.12 km Isolation Limit Point: 35.3492, -82.8642 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database: Grassy Cove Top (S)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Appalachian Mountains Range3: Blue Ridge Mountains Range4: Central Blue Ridge Ranges Range5: Great Balsam Mountains
Drainage Basins	Pigeon French Broad Tennessee Ohio Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: National Forests in North Carolina
Topo Map	Shining Rock O35082c7 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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