Many towers have been removed or have been converted to rental cabins. Others still exist but sit empty. Though the footprint ...

There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts like this one deserve a second chance at ...

But the few remaining fire lookouts of the US Forest Service often live and work for weeks at a time on their own, scouring the horizon for any hint of smoke from remote lookout towers.

The Forest Service began building fire-detection towers after the Great Fire of 1910, then added more after the Civilian Conservation Corps and other government agencies considered lookouts ...

This story was originally published by Writers on the Range. The writers Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder and Norman McLean all ...

Part of Cape May Point State Park, the World War II Lookout Tower – officially known as Fire Control Tower No. 23 – was built in 1942 and is New Jersey's last restorable tower from World War II.

It’s set to become a must-stop site for drivers and tourists to catch views of the River of Grass, and maybe snap some great ...

A new lookout tower in the Florida Everglades is a source of curiosity right off the highway. It’s set to become a must-stop ...