KENTUCKY LOOKOUTS
BEAR TRACK
Lee County
State
State
Removed
DESIGNATION - BEAR TRACK LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - GY3343
STATE/COUNTY- KY/LEE
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - COBHILL (1976)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1951 (LWS)
STATION IS LOCATED ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF IRVINE AND ABOUT 5-1/2
MILES NORTHWEST OF BEATTYVILLE. THE STATION IS A 4-LEGGED STEEL
STRUCTURE 80 FEET HIGH WITH AN OBSERVATION ROOM ATOP PAINTED GRAY. A
TRAVERSE CONNECTION WAS MADE FROM TRIANGULATION STATION BEAR TRACK
AND THE DISTANCE WAS FOUND TO BE 8.373 METERS (27.47 FEET). THE
POINT TRAVERSED TO AND OBSERVED ON WAS THE CENTER OF THE BASE OF THE
LOOKOUT TOWER.
TO REACH THE STATION FROM THE ESTILL COUNTY COURTHOUSE IN IRVINE, GO
SOUTHEAST ON STATE HIGHWAY NO. 52 FOR 18.4 MILES TO A GRAVEL REVERSE
Y ROAD RIGHT, THIS POINT IS 7.85 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE LEE COUNTY
COURTHOUSE IN BEATTYVILLE, TURN RIGHT ON GRAVEL ROAD AND GO 0.25
MILE TO WHERE ROAD FORKS, TURN RIGHT AND GO UP HILL FOR 0.2 MILE TO
THE TOP OF HILL AND THE STATION AS DESCRIBED.