Once used as our primary means for fire detection, lookouts have been replaced by airplanes and cell phones. In the summer of 1999, Mason Butte and Whiskey Butte were torn down. The remaining towers, Elk Butte and Bertha Hill, are staffed only in high fire danger situations.Click below for history and pictures of our fire detection towers.

 

Bertha Hill

Elk Butte

Mason Butte*

Smith Ridge

Orofino Point

Whiskey Butte*

Brown's Creek*

*Torn down in 1999

Other lookouts (without pictures):

McGary Butte, Jericho, Little Green, Beaver Butte, Boehls Butte, Hemlock, Beal's Butte, Zelinka Butte, Mullikan Point, Billing's Point, Township Butte, Benton Butte, Stoney Point, John Lewis, Windy Point, Brown's Rock, Jackson Mt., Shattuck Butte, Green Mt., Gold Butte, French Mt., Elk Mt., Dead Horse, Angel, Huckleberry, Armstrong, Riverview, Bear, Bald Mt., Summit, Shanghai, Silver, Dull Axe, Stocking Meadows, Freezeout, Scofield, Goat Mt.

 

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