Idaho Fire Lookouts is an independent research and documentation project focused on the history of fire lookout towers across Idaho. The project combines field research, archival work, and public ...

Rick Freimuth has occupied the Benchmark Lookout every summer since 2016. Rick Freimuth and his wife, Linda, have occupied the Benchmark Lookout every summer since 2016. Now retired, the couple can’t ...

The most exclusive overnight experiences in Oregon aren’t necessarily found in five-star hotels or even glamping resorts – they’re found in historic fire lookouts perched on remote mountain peaks.

Two and a half hours north of Sacramento — halfway from anywhere — an ancient metal and wood observation tower perches atop a hillside. For 92 years, someone has kept watch from the Colby Mountain ...

BUTTE MEADOWS — A petition to ask the U.S. Forest Service to save the Colby Mountain Fire Lookout was among the ideas coming from a community meeting Saturday in this mountain town. About 30 people, ...

Wildfires are a reality of life in the American West, and in the early to mid-1900s, the Forest Service built a variety of fire lookout towers, situated on the tops of lofty mountain peaks, to better ...

Northwest Peak Lookout sits at the top of Northwest Peak in Lincoln County. (Hailey Smalley/ Daily Inter Lake) Volunteers make repairs to Northwest Peak Lookout on July 25, 2025. (Hailey Smalley/Daily ...

In California, firefighters have a true range of tools available to alert them of wildfires: live cameras mounted throughout forests, satellites orbiting Earth, pilots scanning the terrain in ...

It was breezy and cool at the top of Dunraven Pass when my friend and I began to hike to a little speck on a ridgeline far away. It was all we could see of the fire lookout atop Mount Washburn, the ...