Hawk Mountain Lookout Site
This is the first lookout site on the AT if you skip the approach trail. The AT no longer goes up and over the summit but does a traverse around in order to maintain a fairly level elevation.
In 1935, the lookout is marked on maps. The old AT went up and over.
In 1972, a USGS party placed a benchmark in the northwest lookout tower footing calling it HAWK 1972. They said the lookout was a destroyed lookout tower.
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Status: Former Lookout
Elevation: 3,560 feet
Prominence: 713 feet
State: Georgia
County: Union
AT Access: 0.3 mile alternate trail with 500 feet of gain
If you have more information about this site or historic images, please contact me.
AT route on Frosty Mountain (there is now a bypass)
Fire tower shown on the 1935 USGS map
Fire tower shown on the 1946 USGS map, 1956 updated.
Access:
I left the Appalachian Trail when I hit the base mountain at the northwest ridge. The bushwhack was fairly easy terrain. From the summit, the old trail does drop down to the AT on the east side to where some official trail camps are located.
Firepit
Summit ridge
Sign at the Appalachian Trail junction
Summit
Footing