There are nearly 100 fire lookout towers still standing in the state. In hike-happy Western Washington, try eight treks to fire lookout towers this summer.

Washington was once home to hundreds of fire lookouts — great towers that would stand above the trees, offering 360-degree views of the surrounding wilderness. The towers were used by spotters ...

1 of 2 The fire lookout at Sourdough Mountain in 1956. Poet Gary Snyder worked at this station in the summer of 1953. Author Jack Kerouac wrote about it in his book "Dharma Bums." ...

Two dead in Friday morning house fire in Fremont.© stevenmaltby/Getty Images Ballville Township house a total loss in 8-hour firefight by 7 fire departments© Provided by The News-Messenger (Fremont) ...

A helicopter flight last week to check on and repair park radio repeaters revealed the Mount Fremont Fire Lookout in similarly battered condition.

At its peak, there were 660 fire lookouts in the state of Washington, according to Forrest Clark, Western Washington director for the Forest Fire Lookout Association.

In the summer of 1956, beat writer Jack Kerouac spent 63 days living and writing inside the Desolation Peak Lookout, a rugged, 14×14 fire lookout perched above 6,000 feet in Washington’s North ...

Marian Doty left her Fremont home yesterday morning for her water aerobics class and returned to find the house in flames and her friend of 40 years dead.

The Bald Mountain Fire Lookout is the tallest lookout tower on the Fremont-Winema Forest. Ron Rommel has been staffing the tower since 2019.

Look here Saturday and in the Sunday print edition for a report on what it's like to spend summer in a lookout. Joann Harris Rode has been doing it for 25 seasons.

Fivemile Butte Lookout is on a 40-foot drive-up tower in the eastern part of the Mount Hood National Forest; available for rental all year (when it reopens after a temporary closure). The forest ...