Type: L-4 Ground Cabin Status: Rental Elevation: 6,269 Visited: July 1-5, 2020 We rented the Bolan Mountain Lookout for four nights. Due to the pandemic I heard about a lot of people whose lookout reservations around the Pacific Northwest were…
Dutchman Peak
Type: D-6 cupola cabin Status: Used in emergencies Elevation: 7,418′ Visited: July 5, 2019 While in the Siskiyou Crest area we headed to Dutchman Peak (often mistakenly referred to as Dutchman’s Peak). We were able to drive up Road 800…
Squaw Peak
Type: L-4 ground cabin Status: Rental Elevation: 4,984′ Visited: July 3-7, 2019 Back when I was researching my book in 2015 I discovered that the lookout on Squaw Peak in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest had been added to Recreation.gov,…
Squaw Peak Lookout’s New Roof
When I was researching my book I discovered that the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest was readying the Squaw Peak lookout to be a rental. The lookout even had a page on recreation.gov. The project hit some kind of unspecified snag,…
Quail Prairie
Type: 41′ R-6 tower Status: Abandoned Elevation: 3,030 feet Visited: June 29, 2014 The Quail Prairie lookout tower was built in 1963. It used to be part of the rental program but around 2010 or 2011 part of the cabin…
Snow Camp Mountain
Type: Ground cabin (rebuilt) Status: Available to rent Elevation: 4,223 feet Visited: June 27-30, 2014 We rented the lookout on Snow Camp Mountain last weekend. This was the first lookout to go on the rental program in 1990 and was…
Wildhorse Lookout
Type: 40′ L-4 tower Status: Being restored Elevation: 3,778 feet Visited: June 29, 2014 The Wildhorse Lookout was built in 1947 after the original tower was crushed by heavy snow. Unfortunately it became the victim of heavy snow again during…