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The highest point in the state of Georgia, Brasstown Bald, is known to native Cherokee as Etonah and to many Georgians as among the best locations to view the changing fall colors. The term “bald” is used to describe deforested mountaintops in the southern Appalachians that have 360-degree unobstructed views.
And the views can indeed be spectacular. But the high, grassland mountaintops, rather than naturally occurring, are part of a…