Clingmans Dome

American  

[kling-muhnz] / ˈklɪŋ mənz /

noun

1. a mountain on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee: the highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains. 6,642 feet (2,024 meters).

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Example Sentences

The Park It Forward program, which launched last March, does not guarantee a spot, so you might still have to circle the lot at such popular spots as Laurel Falls Trail and Clingmans Dome.

From Seattle Times

“If I get on that thing you’ll find one of my wigs in the top of a tree or the top of Clingmans Dome or something. But it does look like fun.”

From Washington Times

By sunset, they had reached the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park but stayed long enough only to take in the expanse of Tennessee and North Carolina from Clingmans Dome.

From Los Angeles Times

It also has brake-worthy points of interest, such as Clingmans Dome Road, which leads to an observation tower at the park’s highest point, and Newfound Gap, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the park in September 1940.

From Washington Post

On July 15, 2019, that’s what happened when a Chevy Cobalt plunged more than 50 feet from a stretch of Clingmans Dome Road near its terminus, killing the driver and injuring a passenger.

From Washington Post