Deschutes National Forest – Every Lookout in Oregon

Fox Butte

Type: 80′ steel tower Status: No longer staffed Elevation: 6,025′ Visited: June 11, 2021 After visiting East Butte I drove

Type: 20′ L-4 tower Status: Staffed Elevation: 6,400′ Visited: June 11, 2021 During a camping and hiking weekend in central

Type: 41-foot-tall tower with 16′ octagonal cabin Status: Staffed Elevation: 5,462′ Visited: June 19, 2020 While camping in the area

Type: 86′ steel Aermotor tower Status: Abandoned Elevation: 5,546′ Visited: May 31, 2020 The road up to Trout Creek Butte

Volunteers with Friends of the Metolius have been working with the Forest Service to restore the old 1923 D6 cupola

Type: D-6 cupola (1923) and 35′ tower (1995) Status: Cupola is abandoned; Tower is staffed Elevation: 6,436 feet Visited: July 16,

Type: 30′ tower with R-6 cabin Status: Staffed in summer Elevation: 7,033 feet Visited: July 28, 2013 Greg and I

Visited October 2, 2011 Since we were in Bend for the weekend we decided to take a jaunt up to