Blount County, Tennessee / Swain County, North Carolina, U.S.
Parent range
Great Smoky Mountains
Topo map
USGS Gregory Bald
Climbing
Easiest route
Gregory Ridge Trail + Gregory Bald Trail
Mountain within the Great Smoky Mountains
Gregory Bald is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains. It has an elevation of 4,949 feet (1,508 meters) above sea level. The mountain's majestic summit makes it a popular hiking destination. Another feature that attracts many visitors are the flame azaleas that bloom over the bald every summer. The azaleas reach peak bloom around mid-to-late June.
Gregory Bald is located along the Tennessee-North Carolina border, between Blount County and Swain County. It rises approximately 3,000 feet above its northern base in Cades Cove, and approximately 3,300 feet above its southern base at Fontana Lake. The mountain is located entirely within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Gregory Bald is a type of mountain known as a grassy bald. Unlike most summits in the Appalachian Mountains, which are heavily forested or culminate in jagged peaks, grassy balds are covered by a thick layer of wild grass. Trees and other foliage are sparse. How and why a summit develops into a grassy bald is unknown. While there is evidence that Gregory Bald was a natural grassy bald, the National Park Service must currently work to prevent the summit from becoming forested.[2]
^ ab"Gregory Bald, North Carolina/Tennessee". Peakbagger.com.
^Durwood Dunn, Cades Cove: The Life and Death of an Appalachian Community (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 33.
GregoryBald is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains. It has an elevation of 4,949 feet (1,508 meters) above sea level. The mountain's majestic summit...
alpine summit, such as Mount Washington in New Hampshire, and a bald, such as GregoryBald in the Great Smoky Mountains, is that a lack of trees is normal...
was a lower trail that crested at Ekaneetlee Gap, a col just east of GregoryBald. This trail traversed Cades Cove and Tuckaleechee Cove before proceeding...
Cove resident Russell Gregory (for whom GregoryBald is named), which was carried out by bushwhackers in 1864 shortly after Gregory had led an ambush that...
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Spence. The park service currently maintains the grassy balds atop GregoryBald and Andrews Bald, while allowing the others to return to their natural state...
Cove resident Russell Gregory (for whom GregoryBald is named), which was carried out by bushwhackers in 1864 shortly after Gregory had led an ambush that...
other is GregoryBald, in the western Smokies. Andrews Bald is a double peak situated along Forney Ridge, just south of Clingmans Dome. Andrews Bald is the...
the more isolated GregoryBald. Due to the natural encroachment of the forest onto the once grazed open balds in the park, Andrews Bald (along with the...
fishing. GregoryBald Trail and Gregory Ridge Trail: The national park service only maintains two balds in the park: Andrews Bald and GregoryBald. Two trails...
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d'Arte Antica, Rome. The face of Gregory is a caricature of the features described by John the Deacon: total baldness, outthrust chin, beak-like nose,...
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does not maintain the bald atop the mountain (the park currently maintains only two grassy balds—GregoryBald and Andrews Bald). A narrow corridor for...
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Carolina via Tuckaleechee Cove, Cades Cove and Ekaneetlee Gap (near GregoryBald). The War Trace ran from the Upper Cherokee area, through southeast Kentucky...
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Mountain/Cades Cove Mountain massif dominates the view immediately to the east. GregoryBald rises like a giant dome to the south-southeast. To the southwest, the...
takes place atop the main crest of the Western Smokies between GregoryBald and Silers Bald, which at the time was coated by a series of highland meadows...
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says: "Peep out of the window above / Two figures, and the moonlight / Gregory'sbald head flickers / And the breasts of Mathildis". In the era of the Risorgimento...
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