Unicoi Range

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Salt Spring Mountain in the Northern Unicois, overlooking Chilhowee Lake

The Unicoi Range is a southern mountain range of the Appalachian Mountains that runs from Tennessee and North Carolina into north Georgia. It has many peaks over 4,000 feet and a few over 5,000 feet.

From prehistoric times to the early 19th century the main route across the Unicoi Range was the Trading Path, later known as the Unicoi Turnpike, and today known in part as Joe Brown Highway, which crosses the crest of the mountains at Unicoi Gap (Duncan 2003:185).

Unicoi is a Cherokee word meaning "white," "hazy," "fog-like," or "fog draped."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Iron Mountains
• Unaka Range

[edit] References

• USGS GNIS - Unicoi Mountains
• USGS GNIS - Unaka Mountains
• Duncan, Barbara R. and Riggs, Brett H. Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill (2003). ISBN 0-8078-5457-3

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