Kuwohi, on the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the Great Smoky Mountains, is the park’s highest mountain, Tennessee’s highest point, and the highest point along the Appalachian Trail. Rising sharply above the surrounding landscape, it contains the headwaters of several streams and supports a Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest near its summit, though that ecosystem has been heavily damaged by the balsam woolly adelgid. Long important in Cherokee tradition as Kuwohi, meaning “mulberry place,” the mountain was renamed Clingmans Dome in 1859 before its original Cherokee name was officially restored in 2024. Its road, trail, and observation tower have made it one of the park’s most visited panoramic summits.