Marshall County High Point Trip Report
two areas (1,380+ ft) on Section 35-5S-4E of Swearengin quadrangle
Date: October 22, 2000
Author: Fred Dale
From the community of Claysville, on US Hwy 431 across the Tennessee River from (and north of)
Guntersville, take State Hwy. 79 northeast about 11 miles to County Road 77. Here you'll be in Jackson
Co., briefly. The intersection has a new BP service station/convenience store. Turn left (west) onto
CR77. Go up the plateau onto Gunters Mountain, a distance of about three miles to the 2nd church on the
left (S) side of the road. Prospect Rd. turns south just before that church and can be used also to access
the following place. We parked at the church and its adjoining cemetery, Gunter Mountain Memory
Gardens.
The two high points can be walked to: (1) the high ground on the north fence line of the
cemetery; (2) high gound just northwest, in a field beyond and just NW of the mobile home nearest to the
cemetery. No restrictions, and pleasant surroundings.
Note that the topo makes no mention or notation of
a cemetery here.
Coordinates - (34 degrees 34 minutes N, 86 degrees 11 minutes W)