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Fire lookout · Lumpkin County, Georgia

Crown Mountain Fire Tower

60-foot Aermotor tower beside a Georgia Forestry Commission office in Dahlonega, erected in the late 1950s or early 1960s and kept up by the office though no longer in use.

Permission required

You need permission from the tribe or landowner before visiting. Signed as state property; office staff escort visitors up the tower.

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Permission required. See the warning at the top of this page.

Can you climb it?
Yes
Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
Arrange a visit through the Lumpkin County forestry office; staff escort visitors up the tower.
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Standing
Type
Cab on a tower60-foot Aermotor towerThe design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
Unknown
Height
60 ft (18.3 m)
Elevation
1,721 ft (525 m)
Agency
Georgia Forestry Commission
Land
Unknown
Location
Lumpkin County, Georgia
Coordinates
34.52215, −83.98634
Registers
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-ga-crown-mountain

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History

Then and now

  1. 2019 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered on the National Historic Lookout Register March 14, 2019Source: nhlr.org
  2. TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Crown Mountain fire tower is 60 feet tall, an Aermotor design, and sits next to a Georgia Forestry Commission office in Dahlonega, in Lumpkin County.1 The National Historic Lookout Register dates it to the late 1950s or early 1960s and says it predates the office and workshop on the site.1 No source I found gives a single build year, and none names who put it up or why it was placed there.1,2

The register says the tower is no longer in active use, but the forestry office keeps it maintained.1 A Georgia tower list files it under the code gfc-918 in Lumpkin County.2 The tower was added to the register on March 14, 2019.1

Access is by arrangement. The register says the tower is posted as state property, but office staff will accompany visitors up it.1 The register lists the location as the Lumpkin County forestry office, so ask the office before any visit and do not try to climb the tower on your own.1

  1. Crown Mountain Fire Tower, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/ga/crown-mountain-fire-tower/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Georgia lookout towers, tnlandforms.us, https://tnlandforms.us/gatowers.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

March 2019 photo
March 2019 photo (2019)Photo: Victoria Oliver, via National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Sources

  1. National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, status, register numbers, agency, dates, photos, links National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  2. tnlandforms.us fire lookout towers (Tom Dunigan) -- GA, NC, TN Gave us: type, register numbers, links tnlandforms.us (Tom Dunigan) · No licence stated; facts only (coordinates, county, elevation, NGS/GFC/BLL register cross-references, status where given). · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  3. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, access, visiting details, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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