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…