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The Forest Fire Lookout Association is training volunteers to serve as forest fire lookouts. They began staffing the tower in August 2019. Their goal is to staff the tower seven days per week from May through November. [4] The lookout is accessible from Carmel Valley Road, and then south on Forest Route 18S02/Tassajara Road 9 miles (14 km ...
Mt Coolidge Fire Lookout Custer State Park still in service; Battle Mountain Fire Lookout, Hot Springs, SD, Fall River Co, 4,363', 22' tower; Seth Bullock/Scruton Mt Fire Lookout, Pennington Co, SD, 5,817', wood tower built in 1939, replaced 1975 with metal tower; SD Lookout Towers that no longer exist: Crook's Tower; Crow's Nest Peak; Signal ...
A fire lookout (sometimes also called a fire watcher) is a person assigned the duty to look for fire from atop a building known as a fire lookout tower. These towers are used in remote areas, normally on mountain tops with high elevation and a good view of the surrounding terrain , to spot smoke caused by a wildfire .
The Wofford Lookout Complex consists of an 80-foot-tall (24 m) [2] fire lookout tower and associated buildings in Lincoln National Forest in Otero County, New Mexico.. Wofford Lookout Complex was built in 1933 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 1988, as part of a thematic group of United States Forest Service fire lookouts in the forest service's Southwestern ...
The Big Springs Lookout Tower is a fire lookout tower in Kaibab National Forest near Big Springs, Arizona. The tower was built in 1934 for the U.S. Forest Service by contractors from Kanab, Utah . The steel tower is 100 feet (30 m) tall and features a 7-foot (2.1 m) square cab at the top.
The Hillsboro Peak Lookout Tower and Cabin, in Gila National Forest in Sierra County, New Mexico, is a forest fire lookout tower and cabin with one or both built in 1925. The combination was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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The National Park Service staffed the Watchman Lookout Station during fire season until 1974 and intermittently since then. [5] Today, the Watchman Lookout Station has significant interpretive value. Since the lookout was built, there has been a major philosophical change in how forest managers deal with wildfires.