Type: 41′ tower with R-6 cabin Status: Staffed in summer, rental in winter Elevation: 5,651 feet Visited: September 23, 2012 After visiting Joe’s Point and Fivemile Butte, our last lookout visit of the day was Flag Point. Road 200 out…
Fivemile Butte
Type: 30′ tower with R-6 cabin Status: Rental Elevation: 4,627 feet Visited: September 23, 2012 After finding the crow’s nest at Joe’s Point Greg and I headed up to check out the Fivemile Butte lookout. The last stretch of access…
Joe’s Point
Type: Crow’s nest Status: Abandoned Elevation: 3,653 Visited: September 23, 2012 A crow’s nest lookout was built in a tree at Joe’s Point around 1930. Someone found the tree and hid a geocache there so Greg and I set out…
Goodman Ridge
Type: 60′ tower Status: Abandoned Elevation: 5,218 feet Visited: August 19, 2012 Our last lookout stop on our Wallowa vacation was Goodman Ridge. It was a long drive up Road 31 (Skyline Road) to get here! We parked on Road…
Devil’s Peak
Type: 8′ tower with L-4 cab Status: Abandoned but available to use Elevation: 5,045 feet Visited: September 22, 2012 There are several ways to reach Devil’s Peak in the Mt. Hood National Forest. Two of the approaches involve long hikes…
Mt. Harris
Type: 40′ tower Status: Abandoned Elevation: 6,071 feet Visited: August 18, 2012 After visiting Point Prominence we drove over to Mt. Harris. The paper map and the GPS showed different and confusing networks of roads, but we finally figured out…
Point Prominence
Type: 82′ tower with L-4 cabin Status: Staffed in summer Elevation: 6,745 feet Visited: August 18, 2012 Back in August Greg and I spent a week exploring the Eagle Cap Wilderness and ended our trip by visiting some fire lookouts.…
Bosley Butte lookout gone
Another one bites the dust. The Bosley Butte lookout burned down sometime earlier this year in what is suspected to be an act of vandalism. Since the Coos Forest Protective Association has a camera up there they don’t plan to…