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December 19, 1986 [1] The Heaven's Peak Fire Lookout in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, is significant as one of a chain of staffed fire lookout posts within the park. The one-story timber-construction with a flat roof was built in 1945. The flat, overhanging roof is anchored to the stone foundation with cables.
The fire leaped from 3,800 acres early Saturday in the city of Highland to 7,122 acres by the evening as it spread northeast into the San Bernardino Mountains toward Running Springs and Arrowbear ...
Summit Ridge Fire Lookout, 6,082', 67.5' tower, last staffed in 1972. Rankin Ridge Fire Lookout, Wind Cave National Park, replaced the Crow's Nest Peak tower, 5,013'. Mt Coolidge Fire Lookout Custer State Park still in service. Battle Mountain Fire Lookout, Hot Springs, SD, Fall River Co, 4,363', 22' tower.
The Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association ("ANFFLA") is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization of citizen volunteers dedicated to the preservation, restoration and operation of the fire lookout towers in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, and other Southern California areas. The organization works in partnership with the ...
Tahquitz Peak (pronounced / t ɑː ˈ k w iː t s /, sometimes / ˈ t ɑː k ɪ t s /) is a granite, 8,846-foot-tall (2,696 m) rock formation [3] located on the high western slope of the San Jacinto mountain range in Riverside County, Southern California, United States, above the mountain town of Idyllwild. Tahquitz has a steep approach hike ...
Going-to-the-Sun Road is a scenic mountain road in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, in Glacier National Park in Montana.The Sun Road, as it is sometimes abbreviated in National Park Service documents, is the only road that traverses the park, crossing the Continental Divide through Logan Pass at an elevation of 6,646 feet (2,026 m), which is the highest point on the road. [3]
Shuteye Peak is known for its panoramic views of the San Joaquin Valley, Mammoth Mountain, Bass Lake, and North Fork areas and is home to one of the last active fire lookouts in California. Today, Shuteye Peak operates as one of a triangle of lookouts in the Sierra National Forest 's Bass Lake Ranger District with Miami Mountain and Signal Peak ...
Heavens Peak (8,991 feet (2,740 m)) is located in the Livingston Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Heavens Peak is a little more than 1 mile (1.6 km) north of McPartland Mountain. [3] The mountain's descriptive name first appeared on a map prepared by Lt. George P. Ahern, from 1888 to 1890 reconnaissance maps prepared ...