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 ...

Bill Moore is the son of Bud Moore, an early Forest Service employee and author of “The Lochsa Story.” Lookout towers became an integral part of the nation’s firefighting apparatus following ...

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 ...