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Starting in 2002, traditional fire watch was replaced by "FireWatch", optical sensors located on old lookout towers or mobile phone masts. Based on a system developed by the DLR for analyzing gases and particles in space, a terrestrial version for forest fire smoke detection was developed by DLR and IQ Wireless . [ 16 ]
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]
This is a list of notable fire lookout towers and stations, including complexes of associated buildings and structures.This includes lookout cabins without towers which are perched high and do not require further elevation to serve for their purpose, and also includes notable lookout trees.
A scenic viewpoint—also called an observation point, viewpoint, viewing point, vista point, [1] scenic overlook, [1] etc.—is an elevated location where people can view scenery (often with binoculars) and photograph it.
The 2016 video game Firewatch follows the story of a fire lookout, Henry, in Shoshone National Forest after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 Desolation Angels , a semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1965, the opening section of which is taken almost directly from the journal Kerouac kept when he was a fire lookout on ...
The Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower in the extreme western region of Mount Rainier National Park at an elevation of 5,485 feet (1,672 m). [2] One of four fire lookouts remaining in the park, the lookout is used for visitor services during summer weekends.
If you're looking for a new perspective, a road trip to a lush lookout point in New Jersey may be right up your alley.
The Stillwater Overlook is a scenic overlook in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, United States, just south of the city limits of Stillwater, near the junction of Minnesota State Highway 36 and Minnesota State Highway 95.