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Dabney Tompkins and Alan Colley market Summit Prairie as "off the grid and 40 feet up," and the demand to stay at the Oregon property is staggering.
A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a mountain or other high vantage point to maximize viewing distance and range, known as view shed .
In the 1930s, over 600 fire lookouts were built in Washington. Less than 100 remain.
There once were more than 10,000 fire lookout persons [1] staffing more than 5,000 of fire lookout towers or fire lookout stations in the United States alone. [2] Now there are far fewer of both. Also there are a number of fire lookout trees. The U.S. state of Wisconsin decided to close its last 72 operating fire lookout towers in 2016. [3]
Fairview Peak summit is about two miles (3 km) from the guard station. At the top there is a 53-foot (16 m) fire lookout tower that is staffed during the summer. When a Forest Service lookout is in residence, the tower is open to the public. Visitors can climb the tower and see how fires are spotted and their location plotted using an azimuth ...
Nearly 1,000 fire lookout stations were erected in Idaho. Less than 200 still stand, but many are within driving distance of Boise. Get a 360-degree view of Idaho from these fire lookout towers. 5 ...
The Unity Ranger Station has a combined fire lookout and water tower located on the compound. The 60-foot (18 m) high, wooden tower was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1938. The tower has a 7-foot (2.1 m) by 7-foot (2.1 m) cab mounted on a 12-foot (3.7 m) square deck with a catwalk enclosed by simple wooden railing. The windows have ...
Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state) (12 P) Pages in category "Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.