Popular Smoky Mountains spot now back to its original Cherokee name Kuwohi (formerly Clingmans Dome) SOURCE: Courtesy National Park Service Updated: 4:10 PM EDT Sep 24, 2024 Editorial Standards ⓘ ...

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.

You may know the mountain as Clingmans Dome. But, after a formal request was submitted by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), the name was changed to Kuwohi.