In hike-happy Western Washington, try eight treks to fire lookout towers this summer. ... This iconic Mount Rainier hike to the Fremont Lookout is a 5.6-mile round-trip adventure, ...

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 ...

Lookouts proliferated after the Great Fire of 1910, when flames fanned by violent winds scorched 3 million acres in Washington, Idaho and Montana, prompting zealous fire-protection efforts.

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.

93 fire lookout towers remain in Washington; here’s what it’s like working and living in one. Rick Lund Special to The Seattle Times; Jul 31, 2022 Jul 31, 2022 Updated Sep 5, 2023; 0; ...

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 ...

Washington’s literary lookout history, perhaps, started with poet Gary Snyder, who got a job in 1952 at the Crater Mountain Lookout in the North Cascades, as Seattle Met previously reported.

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

In the 1930s, over 600 fire lookouts were built in Washington. Less than 100 remain.