Kuwohi, also known as Clingmans Dome, its former official name, is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina in the Southeastern United States.
Kuwohi as seen from Sevierville, Tennessee
360-degree panoramic from the tower. Mount Le Conte can be seen center-left.
The southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest is an ecoregion of the temperate coniferous forest biome, a type of montane coniferous forest that grows in the highest elevations in the southern Appalachia
Spruce–fir on the slopes of Kuwohi
Orographic fog over the Black Mountains
Mosses dominate the spruce–fir understory near the summit of Mount Sterling in the Great Smoky Mountains.
View across the slopes of Roan Mountain showing the contrast between the dark green spruce–fir canopy (right) and the dull brown deciduous winter canopy (left)