Type: 103′ tower with 7×7′ cab Status: Private Elevation: 4,720′ Visited: September 16, 2022 I attended the Forest Fire Lookout Association Conference in Enterprise, OR. There were several lookout tours and the first one was to the Tope Creek lookout,…
The Crockets Knob Fire was report on August 22, 2022 in the Malheur National Forest. The lookout on Indian Rock in the Malheur National Forest has now been wrapped to protect it from the fire. In case you can’t read…
The lookout on Waldo Mountain has been wrapped to protect it from the Cedar Creek Fire, which started in the Waldo Lake Wilderness on August 1. The lookout was built in 1957. It is no longer staffed, but the Forest…
Type: L-4 ground cabin Status: Rental Elevation: 8,222′ Visited: June 29 – July 3, 3033 We rented the Drake Peak lookout for three nights, our first time there. (An odd note for 2022: The Fremont-Winema National Forest has a bizarre…
Type: R-6 ground cabin Status: Staffed in summer, rentable in winter Elevation: 7,185′ Visited: June 30, 2022 Today we were driving down to the Lakeview area because we had the Drake Peak lookout reserved. We had heard that the wildflowers…
A visitor reported on Facebook that the lookout on Watson Butte in the Umpqua National Forest has collapsed. It was built in 1937 and had been abandoned for many years so it was only a shell of its former self.…
Type: 30′ tower Status: Abandoned Elevation: 6,113′ Visited: June 11, 2022 The third lookout I visited today was Table Mountain. I parked at the gate and started walking: Very soon the numerous communications towers started coming into view: The old…
Type: 40′ steel tower Status: Staffed Elevation: 5,210′ Visited: June 11, 2022 After visiting Chase Mountain I stopped at Parker Mountain. I turned off of the highway and passed through this gate with a sign warning that the property is…
Type: 20′ steel tower Status: No longer staffed Elevation: 6,349′ Visited: June 11, 2022 This was the first of three lookouts I visited today. This sign at the bottom of road where I turned off of Highway 66 was ominous,…
Type: Two-story lookout Status: No longer staffed Elevation: 6,352′ Visited: May 28, 2022 After visiting Wagontire Mountain the previous day, today I visited Riddle Mountain. I got an early start knowing that a drenching rainstorm was coming in later. I…