Cheaha State Park was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 and is Alabama's oldest state park. During the Great Depression, the CCC built only two stone fire observation towers in Alabama, one on Cheaha and the other on Flagg Mountain. The Bunker Observation Tower, built of Cheaha Quartzite, was dedicated to the park on April 4, 1936. Approximately 50 feet high with walls 2 feet thick, it stands on Alabama's highest point at 2,407 feet above sea level. The tower houses the park museums, provides a view of the surrounding area, and is occasionally used by Talladega National Forest as a fire tower to look for smoke on the horizon. Hundreds of thousands of visitors explore the Talladega National Forest, Cheaha Mountains, and Cheaha State Park each year, and most climb to the top of the tower.