Brasstown Bald

Yesterday, we went on a day trip romp through the southern end of the Appalachians.

Here, we are at the top of Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia.

Take Jack's Knob Trail north from its Chattahoochee Gap intersection with the Appalachian Trail and after climbing almost 1500 feet you reach Brasstown Bald, the highest point in the state of Georgia. Now a trail, this was once the rough road built by the Civilian Conservation Corps to carry food and material to the men erecting the peak's first structure, a fire tower.

Brasstown Bald is unusual in that instead of being a tall mountain, it is a barely discernible rise in Wolfpen Ridge, which extends for miles to the north and south. When this was part of the Cherokee Nation, Brasstown Bald was called Enota(h). Brasstown was the name of a Cherokee settlement about five miles from the peak near what is known as Track Rock Gap.

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