I assume it's called Rarity Mountain because it's rare to get a quick glance, and you can forget about snapping a picture to capture the actual beauty. On I-75, just over the Tennessee State line, is this gem of a landmark. You can take the exit to get a better glimpse, or so it seems. I've seen it tens of times. With ears popping and riding high on a mountain, there's no mistaken the beauty of Tennessee. read more

Rarity Mountain - We made it to Tennessee! - Mountain Biking Near Me - Jellico, Tennessee

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Over the years on road trips between Ohio & Knoxville / Georgia my kids & I have stopped at Rarity Mountain Rd (an overlook off I75 near the TN & KY border) & taken pictures at the sign. Here are 2 very distinct pics. One from approx 2015 & one from this week (my youngest wasn't with us yet). At one time this area was very well kept. Over the last few years it's obviously suffered from gross neglect. The sign portion is even missing. I hope the local government can fix up this area and maintain it better going forward. read more

thank you Heather P for creating this post. I never thought to do it myself cuz I really didn't think Rarity Mountain was a place. but it's nice to see you were able to get it up there..unfortunately so many drivers ruined this by tosding bottles of pee, garbage and you name it in the truck parking area off to the side so the Tennessee DoT got tired of cleaning up after the pigs and simply closed it all off. now when you come off the ramp you have giant boulders and no parking signs where you can't even fit a car just enough to keep on going and not stop..unless you're in the car and you drive up to the top of the scenic area where you would even try to bring a truck up too. But up until it closed to trucks as I am a huge fan of Sky scenes and have taken thousands of pictures of the sky I never get tired of weather, and one of the things I'm learning here with Yelp is I can put them up at businesses. some of my older great pictures are going to be coming up that I've shared through Google for many years but I'm looking forward to putting these on to Yelp also into my collection of photos and videos but Rarity Mountain was a great place at Sunset high above bend elevation You could See For Milesand so many really great pictures I would stop sip some coffee before dropping down the mountain in to jellico and into Tennessee for years.. so here I posted some from 2016 through 2017 hope those it see it like it in addition to the original ones Heather put down which is what prompted me the comments say hi to her the first time when I seen Rarity Mountain pop up that was so cool... read more

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