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In the 1930s, over 600 fire lookouts were built in Washington. Less than 100 remain. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
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Beyazıt Tower, an 85-meter-tall (279 ft) fire lookout tower at Beyazıt Square in Istanbul. A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a ...
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.
NRHP reference No. 91000191 [1] Added to NRHP. March 13, 1991. The Gobbler's Knob Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower in the extreme western region of Mount Rainier National Park at an elevation of 5,485 feet (1,672 m). [2] One of four fire lookouts remaining in the park, the lookout is used for visitor services during summer weekends.
SPRR fire lookout station built in 1909 on Red Mountain above Cisco, CA. (abandoned 1934) A fire lookout (sometimes also called a fire watcher) is a person assigned the duty to look for fire from atop a building known as a fire lookout tower. These towers are used in remote areas, normally on mountain tops with high elevation and a good view of ...
Fairview Peak Lookout is a fire lookout tower located at the summit of Fairview Peak in Gunnison County, Colorado. The lookout lies within the Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area of the Gunnison National Forest. At an elevation of 13,214 feet (4,028 m), the one-room stone structure with a second-story wooden cupola is the highest elevation ...
Sex Peak is a summit in Sanders County, Montana, in the United States. [ 1] It is located within the Kootenai National Forest. [ 2] It has an elevation of 5,751 feet (1,753 m) [ 3] A conversation between a park official and a forester about sex supposedly caused the name Sex Peak to be selected. [ 4][ 5] Atop Sex Peak stands the Sex Peak ...