Most of this terrain is forest, so you can see that the colors are all wrong, but they do help with determining height. Compare against this tourist map . View from the north. Here's a zoom that pushes the data a bit too far. It gets in close on Clingman's dome and Mount LeConte.
North is up.
Eastern tail of the Smokies. Other Sites Great Smoky Mountains National Park . A decent all-purpose Smoky Mountain site can be found here . Excellent tools for creating artificial landscapes can be found here . I created these pictures by using DEM datasets from the USGS and converting them into targa format with dem2pov , and then raytracing as heightfields with POV .