DOUGLAS COUNTY — The day presents a fair challenge. Snow swirls above the forest sprawling south to Pikes Peak and to the far-off mountains in every other direction. Thin clouds gather in spots across ...

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 ...

In the early 1900s, thousands of lookout stations were built across the Western U.S. to spot wildfires. The bare-bones dwellings atop mountains from Montana to California numbered around 5,000 by 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 ...

If you had a treehouse as a kid — or just really, really wanted one — Treehouse Point in Fall City is a childhood fantasy come true. The event center and bed-and-breakfast on four wooded acres is ...

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 ...

Idaho was once home to nearly 1,000 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 would ...

More than a career ended Tuesday when Bill Ellis retired as fire lookout at the Devil’s Head Lookout Tower northwest of Colorado Springs. It was the end of an era — a way of life — for the 87-year-old ...

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 ...