Top 10 Fire Lookout Towers in America
Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.
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Bear Basin Lookout
Gasquet, CANarrow ridge lookout in Six Rivers National Forest with the Siskiyou Wilderness on one side and the Pacific visible on the other
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Black Mountain Lookout
Quincy, CAThe only California lookout rental wired with its own electricity and a refrigerator
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Calpine Lookout
Calpine, CA1934 Civilian Conservation Corps build, one of three surviving enclosed windmill-style lookouts in the state
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Girard Ridge Lookout
Dunsmuir, CAUnobstructed sightline to Mount Shasta and the granite spires of Castle Crags
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Hirz Mountain Lookout
Lakehead, CASits directly over the houseboat-lined arms of Shasta Lake
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Little Mt. Hoffman Lookout
McCloud, CAA working Modoc Plateau lookout with Mount Shasta filling the whole western horizon
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Six Rivers NF, CAOne-room lookout cabin off duty for renters but still standing its post
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Six Rivers NF, CARemote Klamath Mountains lookout reachable by rough forest road
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Hayfork, CAShasta-Trinity lookout above the Hayfork and Platina valleys
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Sierraville, CASierra Nevada lookout overlooking the Sardine Lakes basin
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