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, who ...

A cabin in Confederate Gulch near Canyon Ferry Reservoir and Granite Butte Lookout outside of Lincoln are two new sites that will be added to the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest rental program ...

A hike up to Baker Butte culminates at an idyllic, pine-shaded pinnacle. Swarms of hummingbirds whip through lilac-scented air and masses of ladybugs cling to trees, shrubs and knee-high wildflowers.

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 ...

Atop a lonely peak in the southern reaches of the Santa Fe National Forest sits an old fire lookout tower — decommissioned, inaccessible and weathering in the New Mexico sun. The Friends of the Santa ...

Smokey Bear has his own bedroom at Ray Kresek's north Spokane home, situated on what resembles a pine tree clearing in the National Forest. Really, though, it's Kresek's homage to bygone days of ...

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, who ...