Shining Rock

Shining Rock

Infobox Mountain
Name = Shining Rock
Photo = Shining_Rock_from_Black_Balsam_Knob_(cropped).jpg
Caption = Shining Rock
Elevation = Convert| 6040|ft|m|0|abbr=on
Prominence = Convert| 320|ft|m|0|abbr=on
Range = Great Balsam Mountains
Location = North Carolina, USA
Coordinates = coord| 35.3681623| -82.8623536|type:mountain_region:US|display=inline,title
type:mountain_region:US
Topographic
USGS Shining Rock
First ascent =
Easiest route = hike

Shining Rock is a mountain in western North Carolina. [gnis|1022878|Shining Rock] [cite web |url= |title=Shining Rock, United States |accessdate=2007-07-12 |format= |work=] The mountain is one of the Great Balsam Mountains which are a part of the Blue Ridge Mountains within the Appalachian Mountains. It is the 38th tallest mountain in the eastern United States. [cite web |url=http://americasroof.com/6000.shtml |title=The Tallest Mountains in the Eastern U.S. |accessdate=2007-07-09 |format= |work=]

Shining Rock is in the Shining Rock Wilderness near milepost 420 of the Blueridge Parkway. The Art Loeb Trail passes just below the summit.

Shining Rock is named for the large cluster of quartz boulders near its summit.

Cherokee lore

According to the Cherokee anthropologist James Mooney, the Cherokee name for Shining Rock, Datsu'nălâsgûñ'yĭ, translates to "where their tracks are this way" and refers to a rock that is said to have tracks of Tsul 'Kalu and his children.cite book |author=Ellison, George; Mooney, James E. |title=James Mooney's history, myths, and sacred formulas of the Cherokees: containing the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The sacred formulas of the Cherokees (1891) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology: with a new biographical introduction, James Mooney and the eastern Cherokees |publisher=Bright Mountain Books (Historical Images) |location=Asheville, NC |year=1992 |pages= |isbn=0-914875-19-1 |oclc= |doi= p 480]

This is distinct from Judaculla Rock [gnis|987802|Judaculla Rock] which is discussed with Tsul 'Kalu, is south of the Blueridge Parkway and contains petroglyphs. Confusion arises because Judaculla (or Jutaculla) is a European corruption of the name Tsul 'Kalu; hence there appear to be two rocks of Cherokee lore named with variations of the name.

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