{"id":971,"date":"2021-08-25T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/?p=971"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:49:35","slug":"dry-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2021\/08\/25\/dry-soda\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Soda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Type: 50&#8242; tower with L4 cab<br \/>\nStatus: Staffed<br \/>\nElevation: 5,593&#8242;<br \/>\nVisited: July 3, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The third lookout we visited today was Dry Soda. We headed up Road 3925 and found that this tower has the unusual distinction of being right along a major Forest Road instead of at the end of a rough road.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51324948960_a22b028c9e_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Soda Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51324948495_726b51d7e4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Soda Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51323961736_d6708759fb_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Soda Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51323221742_7116bfa3f8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Soda Lookout\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51324682004_ab08382d02_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Soda Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much of the area out there burned in the 2015 Canyon Creek Fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51323223847_72cd9410c0_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Soda Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51323965961_e87cb2a74b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Soda Lookout\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Half a mile south of the Swick Old Growth interpretive trail on Highway 395, turn east onto Road 3925. Drive for about 8.5 miles on this good gravel road until you reach the lookout, which is right beside this road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oregonlookouts.weebly.com\/dry-soda.html\">Forest Lookouts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firelookout.com\/or\/drysoda.html\">Rex&#8217;s Forest Fire Lookout Page<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nhlr.org\/lookouts\/us\/or\/dry-soda-lookout\/\">National Historic Lookout Register<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakbagger.com\/peak.aspx?pid=67418\">Peakbagger<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/coord.info\/GC168TH\">Geocache<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1941 a 50&#8242; tower was built here and is the tower that still stands today. It&#8217;s pictured here in 1942:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oregonlookouts.weebly.com\/uploads\/1\/5\/9\/1\/1591048\/1204593_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type: 50&#8242; tower with L4 cab Status: Staffed Elevation: 5,593&#8242; Visited: July 3, 2021 The third lookout we visited today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2021\/08\/25\/dry-soda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dry Soda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malheur-national-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}