The Fire Tower located on Bay's Mountain in Kingsport, TN is a "must see." This is a great trail for beginners and doesn't take very long at all to do on a sunny day. From the parking lot at Bays Mountain Park, I walked down to the Lakeside trail and went to the east around the Kingsport Reservoir/lake. After about 0.8 miles you come to Hemlock Trail, which is a short 0.1 mile hike to the Fire Tower Trail. Then you hike for 0.7 miles until you reach the tower.(4.7 miles total) You can see amazing views of Kingsport and Holston Ammunition plant after you climb the open steps that wrap the inside frame of the tower. It was very windy the day that I went and thought I was going to get blown from the windowless top of the tower haha. It is an awesome hike and I can't wait to do it again.
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