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Carolina Lookout Tower Challenge

Carolina Mountain Club

Rank	Peak	Elev-M (Avg)	Range (Level 5)	Prom-M (Avg)
11.	Camp Creek Bald	1476	Bald Mountains	529
21.	Rich Mountain	1125	Bald Mountains
1.	Mount Mitchell	2037	Black Mountains	1857
2.	Clingmans Dome	2025	Central Great Smoky Mountains	1376
19.	Mount Noble	1245	Central Great Smoky Mountains
9.	Cowee Bald	1507	Cowee Mountains	513
22.	Moores Knob	786	Eastern Carolina Piedmont	442
3.	Mount Sterling	1781	Eastern Great Smoky Mountains	202
10.	Mount Cammerer	1502	Eastern Great Smoky Mountains	8
14.	Barnett Knob	1428	Eastern Great Smoky Mountains
6.	Albert Mountain	1591	Georgia Blue Ridge	73
24.	Panther Top	705	Georgia Blue Ridge
5.	Fryingpan Mountain	1628	Great Balsam Mountains	122
12.	Little Snowball Mountain-Northeast Peak	1445	Great Craggy Mountains	37
8.	Green Knob	1554	N NC Blue Ridge Crest	243
16.	Flat Top Mountain	1389	N NC Blue Ridge Crest
23.	Rendezvous Mountain	750	N NC Blue Ridge Crest
4.	Wayah Bald	1628	Nantahala Mountains	49
15.	Wesser Bald	1410	Nantahala Mountains
17.	Chambers Mountain	1371	Newfound Mountain Region
7.	Yellow Mountain	1563	South NC Blue Ridge Crest	472
18.	Bearwallow Mountain	1290	South NC Blue Ridge Crest
13.	Joanna Bald	1443	Unicoi Mountains
20.	Shuckstack	1225	Western Great Smoky Mountains	97

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List Description

This list shows major summits in western North Carolina that have lookout towers on their summits. Since many peaks in the Southern Appalachians are thickly forested to the very summit, the towers on these peaks offer fine views over the trees. Many of these towers are old fire lookouts, but others were build for the benefit of tourists (including towers on Mount Mitchell and Clingmans Dome).

Note that the Little Snowball fire lookout tower has been removed from the Northeast Peak of Little Snowball Mountain and reconstructed at a valley site, the Big Ivy Historical Campus. To get credit from the Carolina Mountain Club for completing this list, you must hike to the old mountain site, plus drive to the tower in its new location and climb it there.

Links

Carolina Lookout Tower Challenge

Selected Guidebook(s) for this List

Hiking North Carolina's Lookout Towers (Barr)

Caution: These books feature many of the peaks on this list, but may not have information on all of them.

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