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The Snowy Mountain Fire Observation Station is a 45 feet (14 m) steel-frame fire lookout tower on Snowy Mountain at Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. [2] It was built in 1917 as a 22 feet (6.7 m) prefabricated LS40 tower made by the Aermotor Windmill Company. Following the growth of surrounding trees, four more flights of ...
The 1903 fire and smaller subsequent fires in 1908 and 1909 motivated the New York government to allocate more resources to fire prevention, fire detection, and fire fighting in the Adirondacks. Fire towers were built on several mountains in the 1910s to monitor fires. The lumber industry was also regulated to prevent the accumulation of slash ...
In 1971, the Snowy Mountain fire tower was closed when NYS decided that it was unnecessary for protecting the Adirondack Park from forest fires (airplanes could do the job equally well). [4] Several years later (it was there in 1986, but gone in 2006), the observer's cabin was removed.
Located in Long Lake, New York, the Buck Mountain Fire Observation Station is a 60-foot-tall (18 m) Aermotor LS-40 tower that was erected in the privately owned Whitney Park circa 1933. In 2006, the International Paper Company signed an agreement to sell all its land in the Adirondack Park to Lyme Timber Company for $137 million. On June 21 ...
Bald Mountain, or Rondaxe Mountain, is a part of the Adirondack Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. [2] The trail leading up the mountain is a popular hike, likely due to its proximity to tourist towns (such as Old Forge, NY). The mountain is also home to the Rondaxe Mountain Fire Tower, [3] which contributes to the trail's popularity.
Owls Head Mountain is a 2,786-foot-tall (849 m) mountain in the Adirondack Mountains region of New York. It is located west-southwest of the hamlet of Long Lake in Hamilton County. The View from Owls Head Mountain fire tower. It can be climbed from a trailhead on Endion Road off New York Route 30, just north of the hamlet of Long Lake.
Mount Arab, sometimes known as Arab Mountain, is a 2,533-foot-tall (772 m) mountain located in the town of Piercefield, New York, in the northern part of the Adirondack Mountain Range. At the summit of this mountain is a large fire tower and a ranger station known as the Arab Mountain Fire Observation Station. Because hiking to the summit of ...
Azure Mountain is a 2,323-foot-tall (708 m) mountain near Blue Mountain Road in the Adirondack Park town of Waverly in Franklin County, New York.Azure Mountain is the site of the Azure Mountain Fire Observation Station, a 35-foot-tall (11 m) steel tower that was built in 1918 and later restored in 2002.