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Bear Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, Pennington Co SD still in service 7166' original tower was built in 1910 of logs, replaced with 30' metal tower in 1939 Custer Peak Fire Lookout, Lawrence Co SD, 6713' original wooden tower built in 1911, replaced in 1935 and replaced with the current rock lookout tower in 1941
The Waldo Mountain fire lookout is located atop Waldo Mountain, in the Willamette National Forest, Oregon. The original fire lookout tower was built on this site in 1926 and was a small cabin. In 1929 a cupola style lookout replaced the cabin. The current flat top lookout was built in 1956. [1] The lookout is currently unstaffed and no longer a ...
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One of Oregon’s more popular mountaintop fire lookouts is set to be rebuilt after it was destroyed in the 2020 Labor Day wildfires. Bolan Mountain Fire Lookout, located just above the Oregon ...
The Watchman Lookout Station is located 8,025 feet above sea level on Watchman Peak, a high point on the western rim above Crater Lake. [5] [6] Watchman Peak was named by William Gladstone Steel in 1886 when he brought a survey team to Crater Lake to measure its depth. [7]
Its summit is the highest point within Crater Lake National Park, and the tenth highest peak in the Oregon Cascades. [6] A small fire lookout tower stands on the summit, at the end of a trail that zigzags approximately 1,500 feet (460 m) up the mountain. The mountain is named for Oregon pioneer Levi Scott, founder of Scottsburg, Oregon. [7]
The United States Forest Service built a fire lookout on Hager Mountain and began manning it full-time in 1915. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The original lookout was replaced with a new structure in 1954. The current lookout is a 14 feet (4.3 m) by 14 feet (4.3 m) one-room cabin with large glass windows on all four sides.