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US 23 to Waterock Knob

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21183, Great Smoky Mountains Expressway, Clark, Haywood County, North Carolina, 28786, United States
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Climb Profile

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Climb Stats

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Climb categoryCategory 1
Distance13.1 km / 8.14 miles
Elevation gain730.6 m / 2,397 ft
Average gradient5.6%
Maximum gradient25.3%
Elevation high1,742.2 m / 5,716 ft
Elevation low1,011.6 m / 3,319 ft
Climb difficulty score73,079.03

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Climb Rank

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🗺

This climb ranks 12,672nd out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

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Ranked as the 813th most difficult cycling climb of all 337,250 climbs in United States.

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Places 30th out of 8,999 cycling climbs in North Carolina.

🥉

This is the third most difficult cycling climb in Haywood County.

🥇

This is the most difficult cycling climb in Clark.

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