If you want a million-dollar view for less than $100 a night, one option rises above the rest: camping in a wildfire lookout tower. The big picture: The U.S. Forest Service rents dozens of its old ...

As wind-driven wildfires spread through the Los Angeles area in January 2025, fire-spotting technology and computer models ...

I couldn’t disagree more. My wife Linda and I have worked for the last seven years at Benchmark Lookout on the San Juan National Forest, a fire tower in the southwest corner of Colorado ...