Brasstown Bald Mountain Lookout Tower Views · · PAGE 8. 

November 16, 2020:  Monday morning we arrived at the highest point in Georgia at 10:38 AM when the GPS was shut down in the parking lot.  Tickets are sold at the gate to the parking lot.  The $10 fee was for both of us.  It also paid for the shuttle bus up to the top of the mountain.  The travel time from Jessica's house to the mountain was right at three hours, which included the stop at Wal-Mart near Buford, GA and the 13-miunute second pit stop for Chase at the Towns County line when we got up in the mountains as seen on PAGE 7.

The views from Brasstown Bald Mountain are mentioned in the photos below taken from our two cameras.  I took this image looking south toward the Unicoi Gap where I had stopped to make the phone call at 10:01 AM earlier this morning.

This view is toward the northeast showing the higher Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina.  The highest point in Tennessee is Clingman's Dome at 6,649 feet MSL.  We will be over that way tomorrow.
 

At these elevations, all the leaves have fallen from the trees in all directions from this vantage point.

This image is looking northwest.  While we were up here looking around, I had a conversation with a couple on their honeymoon from their home in Cohutta, Georgia in Whitfield County, which is the county where I grew up.  Her dialect did not fit north Georgia, so I guessed Wisconsin.  She was surprised that I could tell where she grew up.  We had a short dialog about how I did not talk like her husband, when I explained how I learned to speak with a "broadcast" voice when I had a job on the radio in Dalton, Georgia in the summer of 1966.  After all these years, I don't have to "force" the broadcast voice, it has become my natural vocal communication.  When I get around someone with a distinct regional dialect, I find that I start to adopt their speech pattern, but not always.

Here is the view looking down  and west at the bus stop by the viewing tower.  There is a sign down there warning about rattle snakes in the woods.

This is the view looking at the observation tower from the north end of the upper deck near the elevator.  They have a couple of web cams up there looking in different directions.  The tower is closed due to Covid-19 rules to avoid closed rooms to prevent the spread of the virus.

The parking lot below is at the other end of the shuttle bus route.

Linda is my travel companion on this trip and all my future vacation road trips to see the USA.  She is my life partner in everything except flying with me in my airplane.

Linda took this image of the display about finding GOLD in the north Georgia mountains and the Trail of Tears forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia.

Here is a higher-resolution view of the left side of the image above about the 1828 GOLD RUSH in Georgia.

This is the right side of the story board about the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia in 1832.

Here is Linda's view from the bus stop looking up at the observation deck.  The tower at the top is closed due to Covid-19 safety issues in confined spaces.

Chase gets a walk in the grass while Linda snaps the photo seen above.

Here is Linda's image of the summit as viewed from the parking lot.