page_title: Mount Guyot (Great Smoky Mountains)
section_title: Access
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Guyot (Great Smoky Mountains) / Access
caption_attribution_description: The Appalachian Trail crossing the northern slope of Mount Guyot in the Great Smoky Mountains. As human habitation never encroached very far into the Eastern Smokies, the highland conifer forest here remains very dense. This point is at an elevation of appx. 6,300 feet/1,920 meters. The elevation of Guyot is 6,621 feet/2,018 meters.
context_page_description: Mount Guyot is a mountain in the eastern Great Smoky Mountains, located in the southeastern United States. At 6,621 feet in elevation, Guyot is the fourth-highest summit in the eastern U.S., and the second-highest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While the mountain is remote, the Appalachian Trail crosses its south slope, passing to within 1,000 feet of the summit.
  Mount Guyot lies on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, between Sevier County and
  Haywood County. There are two peaks atop the mountain, appx. one-half mile apart,
  with the southwestern peak being the true summit. The mountain rises 3,600 feet above its
  eastern base near Walnut Bottom and 4,000 feet above its western base near Greenbrier Cove. Ramsey Cascades, one of the park's most spectacular waterfalls, spills down a sandstone cliff near the bottom of Guyot's western
  slope.
  A dense stand of Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest coats the summit and upper slopes of Guyot. Human settlement never expanded deep into the eastern Smokies, so the area around Guyot and adjacent peaks suffered substantially less disturbance than the mountains in the western or central parts of the range.
context_section_description: The Appalachian Trail and the Balsam Mountain Trail intersect just south of Guyot
  at Tricorner Knob.  They are the only maintained trails to traverse the mountain.
  From the Cosby Campground (specifically behind Campsite B51), the Snake Den Ridge Trail 
  winds 5.3 miles (8.5 km) to its intersection with the Appalachian Trail at Inadu Knob.  From this
  intersection, it is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) to Guyot Spring, on Mt. Guyot's west slope.
  A 15-mile (24 km) section of the Appalachian Trail stretches from Newfound Gap to Tricorner Knob, near Guyot's south slope.  The Appalachian-Balsam Trail intersection is approximately 13 miles (21 km) from Balsam Mountain Road, a gravel road that begins near Cherokee, North Carolina.
  While Guyot's eastern slope is very steep, its western slope, known as Guyot Spur, descends gradually for nearly five miles to the Little Pigeon River.  A well-known bushwhack follows the creek on the north side of Guyot Spur, starting at Ramsay Cascades and emerging on the Appalachian Trail near Guyot Spring (probably the same path Thornborough's guides followed in the 1930s).  This route is approximately eight miles from the Ramsay Cascades Trail parking area, four miles (6 km) of which are maintained trail.
  While the summit is less than a half-mile from the Appalachian Trail, the thick forest makes any bushwhack a challenge.  A faint manway rises from Guyot Spring to the northern summit, although the manway is heavily overgrown.  Dead Fraser fir blowdowns and low visibility complicate navigation from any direction.
caption: The dense forest of the Eastern Smokies renders the Appalachian Trail a virtual tunnel as it crosses the western slope of Mount Guyot
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