Canon EOS 5D 12.8 MP Digital SLR Camera; Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 IF ED MC Super Wide Angle, Manual Focus Lens; The High Knob Fire Tower is located in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest on Shenandoah Mountain west of Harrisonburg and sits on the boundary line between Virginia and West Virginia. The tower is a historic structure renovated in 2003 which also enhanced trail access from a new parking area just west of the ridgeline, on the West Virginia side of the mountain. Workers for the Civilian Conservation Corps and World War I veterans constructed the tower during 1939-40 using rocks from Shenandoah Mountain. It is now the only stone fire tower in Virginia and is the only intact tower of this type on national forest lands east of the Mississippi River. Most fire towers were constructed of metal.
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