Fire lookout towers may seem antiquated in light of new technology used to detect wildfires. But some firefighters see the ...

There comes a moment, every time you visit a fire lookout tower, when you become certain that you have gotten hopelessly, irretrievably lost. The dirt road is buckled and overgrown; your tires skirt a ...

As a young boy, Ray Villa vividly remembers seeing a fire lookout tower for the first time on his home television. He didn’t fully understand what he was seeing on his screen at the time — he just ...

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 ...

Long Islanders gathered at the shore, at schools and in parks, or anywhere else, to share the attack's 24th anniversary with ...

Perched high atop Mount Bolivar in Northern California, Karita Knisely spends her summer scanning the skies. Most days, all she sees are clouds and trees – the firs and pines of Klamath National ...

Located in remote Oregon, the 388-square-foot rental sleeps four and has a full kitchen. The property accepts 65 reservations each year, and there are currently 1,600 names on the waitlist. Dabney ...

Nevada’s last surviving fire lookout tower has made the history books for sending as well as receiving signals. The 68-year-old Zephyr Cove Lookout Tower, managed by the U.S. Forest Service, was ...

SEDALIA, Colo. — If you've ever made the hike up to the Devil's Head Fire Lookout Tower over the past 35 years, chances are you've met Billy Ellis. Well into his 80s, Ellis, officially retired from ...

A National Park Service ranger looking through binoculars from the Fire Lookout Station at Twin Sisters Peaks in Rocky Mountain National Park, 1916. In a wildland firefighting era that employs ...

You might thank Pam Morey for the fact that people in tower lookouts were the first to spot 20 or so wildfires in the San Bernardino National Forest last year — fires you never heard about because ...