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Hornet Lookout is a former fire lookout tower located in the Flathead National Forest and is located approximately 45 miles (72 km) north of Columbia Falls, Montana. [ 1 ] on August 19, 1983, Hornet Lookout was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
Sex Peak is a summit in Sanders County, Montana, in the United States. [1] It is located within the Kootenai National Forest. [2] It has an elevation of 5,751 feet (1,753 m) [3] A conversation between a park official and a forester about sex supposedly caused the name Sex Peak to be selected. [4] [5]
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]
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 Musick Guard Station is located on a narrow forested ridge between Fairview Peak and Grouse Mountain, at about 5,000 feet (1,500 m) elevation. It is surrounded by rugged 6,000-foot (1,800 m) mountains with steep slopes covered with Douglas fir , spruce , and western hemlock .
Jul. 21—Fire lookouts have a story — a memory of the people and events of the past. The Werner Peak Lookout is among the fire lookouts in northwest Montana that still stand and part of ...
Summit Ridge Fire Lookout, 6,082', 67.5' tower, last staffed in 1972; Rankin Ridge Fire Lookout, Wind Cave National Park, replaced the Crow's Nest Peak tower, 5,013' Mt Coolidge Fire Lookout Custer State Park still in service; Battle Mountain Fire Lookout, Hot Springs, SD, Fall River Co, 4,363', 22' tower
The Scalplock Mountain Fire Lookout in Glacier National Park is significant as one of a chain of staffed fire lookout posts within the park. The low two-story timber-construction structure with a pyramidal roof was built in 1931. [ 2 ]