{"id":194,"date":"2009-05-30T20:38:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T01:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-06-05T20:49:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T01:49:39","slug":"cowee-bald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Cowee Bald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our two waterfall hikes (below) we felt we needed one more short hike to round out the day.\u00a0\u00a0 Cowee Bald was a tempting target with it&#8217;s prominent location at the north end of the Cowee Mountains and it seemed like it might be a good place to watch the sunset over the Smokies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195\" title=\"cowee_lookout\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cowee_lookout.jpg\" alt=\"Melanie at the Cowee lookout tower\" width=\"326\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cowee_lookout.jpg 326w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cowee_lookout-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie at the Cowee lookout tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Forest Service road 70 is the key to getting up Cowee Bald.\u00a0 It&#8217;s sort of hard to find in the maze of roads north of Franklin.\u00a0 Once found it&#8217;s a long way up with some fairly steep gravel grades.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a gate about a half mile from the summit so we parked there and hiked up to the lookout tower which unfortunately was locked halfway up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196\" title=\"cowee_bald_view\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cowee_bald_view.jpg\" alt=\"View from Cowee Bald\" width=\"440\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cowee_bald_view.jpg 440w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/cowee_bald_view-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from Cowee Bald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Due to towers for cell phones, radio transmitters and such the view north is non-existant.\u00a0\u00a0 The view in other directions isn&#8217;t bad though.\u00a0 This is looking south towards Franklin, NC.\u00a0and Dillard, GA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our two waterfall hikes (below) we felt we needed one more short hike to round out the day.\u00a0\u00a0 Cowee Bald was a tempting target with it&#8217;s prominent location at the north end of the Cowee Mountains and it seemed like it might be a good place to watch the sunset over the Smokies. Forest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cowee Bald<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking","category-nantahala-nf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}