Shining Rock is a mountain in western North Carolina, United States.

It is the 38th tallest mountain in the eastern United States.

The Art Loeb Trail passes just below the summit.

According to the Cherokee anthropologist James Mooney, the Cherokee name for Shining Rock, Datsu'nălâsgûñ'yĭ, translates to "where their tracks are this way" and refers to a rock that is said to have tracks of Tsul 'Kalu and his children.

[4] This is distinct from Judaculla Rock[5] which is discussed with Tsul 'Kalu, is south of the Blue Ridge Parkway and contains petroglyphs.