Type: Wooden platform Status: Abandoned Elevation: 6,414′ Visited: October 15, 2022 While staying at the Short Creek Guard Station I visited two lookouts, the first one being Crane Point. Does a wooden platform count as a lookout structure? I don’t…
Return to Devils Peak
Type: 8′ tower with L-4 cab Status: Abandoned but available to use Elevation: 5,045 feet Visited: October 8, 2022 Greg and I first visited the Devils Peak lookout in September 2012, almost exactly ten years ago. That time we hiked…
Courtney Butte
Type: Three-story enclosed cab Status: Private Elevation: 4,813′ Visited: September 17, 2022 After visiting the private Tope Creek Lookout the day before, attendees at the FFLA Conference visited another private lookout today, Courtney Butte. This was once an ODF lookout…
Tope Creek
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,…
Indian Rock Lookout Wrapped
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…
Waldo Mountain Lookout Wrapped
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…
Drake Peak
Type: L-4 ground cabin Status: Rental Elevation: 8,222′ Visited: June 29 – July 3, 2022 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…
Hager Mountain
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…
Watson Butte Lookout Collapsed
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.…
Table Mountain
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…