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…
Type: Two-story lookout Status: No longer staffed Elevation: 6,510′ Visited: May 27, 2022 During a stormy, wet, windy Memorial Day Weekend in Harney County I visited two lookouts and Wagontire was up first. I drove Highway 395 south from Highway…
Type: Steel tower Status: Unmanned Elevation: 3,834′ Visited: June 20, 2021 I used Beecher Road (which turns into Burgess Gulch Road / BLM Road 34-6-12) and drove 5.3 miles to the junction with the spur road to the summit where…
Type: 50′ concrete observation tower Status: Staffed Elevation: 5,190′ Visited: May 2, 2018 While on a road trip with my sister in southern Oregon we visited Green Mountain in Lake County. We could see the fire lookout as we approached:…
Type: 10′ wooden tower with ODF cab Status: Staffed Elevation: 6,091 feet Visited: July 2, 2017 During our Fourth of July weekend in southern Oregon we visited the Soda Mountain Lookout in the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument (it’s also surrounded…
Type: 20′ tower Status: Unstaffed Elevation: 2,696 feet Visited: June 28, 2015 Before heading home from our stay at Pickett Butte we visited Bland Mountain. It can be a bit tricky to figure out the correct route to get here. From Days…
Type: Stone cupola cabin Status: Maintained by volunteers Elevation: 4,339 feet Visited: October 5, 2013 After two weeks of awful rain we finally got a sunny weekend in northwest Oregon. Greg and I headed down to the Table Rock Wilderness…