Every Lookout in Oregon

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…