It is located in the northeastern part of the state in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border between Towns and Union counties south of the city of Hiawassee.

The public can drive to a parking lot 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the top via Georgia State Route 180 Spur and then continue to the summit via a shuttle bus or a short hike on a paved trail.

[4] According to the two Georgia historical markers, the area surrounding Brasstown Bald was settled by the Cherokee people.

[citation needed] Other transliterated spellings of the Cherokee name for the mountain include Echia, Echoee, Etchowee, and Enotah.

[citation needed] The term "Bald" is common terminology in the southern Appalachians describing mountaintops that have 360-degree unobstructed views.

Former Georgia Supreme Court Judge Thomas S. Candler is memorialized with a stone monument at Brasstown Bald.

[6] In the 2005 through 2008 editions of the Tour de Georgia, a long-distance bicycle race, Brasstown Bald was the site of an hors categorie "King of the Mountains stage" finish.

NOAA Weather Radio station KXI22 transmits from atop the mountain, simulcasting with KXI75 from Blue Ridge, Georgia.