King's Pinnacle

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King's Pinnacle is one of the two main elevations within the Crowder 's Mountain State Park in the western Piedmont region in North Carolina in the United States of America. The other major peaks of the park is the Crowder 's Mountain, they lie between the towns of Kings Mountain and Gastonia.

King's Pinnacle is named after the rocks in the summit area of the mountain and are reminiscent of a crown. The mountain is the remnant of a much higher summit, which originated about 400 to 500 million years ago and has been eroded to a height of 520 meters above sea level. It rises abruptly to a height of 250 meters above the surrounding terrain.

King's Pinnacle and the nearby Crowder 's Mountain separated the hunting grounds of Native Americans of the region, the Cherokee and Catawba. In the Battle of Kings Mountain, which was defeated in 1780 southwest of the mountain, won the American patriots won an important victory over the British army during the American War of Independence. The battlefield is now a protected national monument: Kings Mountain National Military Park.

Several trails lead to the summit of the mountain from which one can make both far to the west and north, the much higher Appalachians, as well as the location about 50 kilometers to the east skyline of Charlotte.