Our search for a crow's nest that sat abandoned for 80 years!
As a fan of history, photography, and the great outdoors, it was only a matter of time before I fell head over heels for fire lookouts. From the moment I set foot in my first one, I was hooked—not just on the towers themselves, but on the stories of the men and women who built, maintained, and lived in them.
These days, most weekends are spent chasing those stories: hiking, backpacking, or bouncing down some forgotten forest road. If there’s a lookout involved, I’m in.
Our search for a crow's nest that sat abandoned for 80 years!
Abandoned in the 1940s, Three Three Butte Lookout Crows Nest is still viewable for the lookout enthusiast.
Destroyed due to vandalism in 2015
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Gisborne Mountain Lookout is on the National Historic Lookout Register and is staffed in the summers.
An abandoned 1930's cabin is all that remains of this lookout location.
Hugest Ridge is still actively staffed almost 100 years after the sight was first used as a tree lookout.
Our last run to lookouts in the St Joe area before winter of 2021 sets in doesn't go as expected.
A long drive and some serious hiking to visit two towers in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.