The future of Sand Mountain was in its past, Allen concluded. Sand Mountain needed its lookout tower back. East Zigzag Lookout being burned by a Forest Service ranger in 1965.

They had been sent from a fire lookout tower on Sand Mountain, a peak in the Willamette National Forest near Three Finger Jack and Mount Washington. Allen knew the lookout tower well.

“My personal connection goes very deep at ‘The Bull,’ as my father staffed that lookout in 1958 and 1959,” said Allen, present of the Sand Mountain Society.

Olallie Mountain Lookout, a sentinel since 1932, burned down sometime last autumn, but it wasn't discovered until this summer.

The Sand Mountain Society traces its roots to Southern Oregon in 1989 when Allen and a passel of other lookout-lovers asked to relocate the historic and abandoned lookout cabin from Whisky Peak on ...

Bolan Mountain Lookout in southern Oregon is set to be rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Slater Fire in 2020.

In 2020, Bolan Mountain Lookout was burned by the Slater Fire. Four years later, a district ranger and an Oregon nonprofit rebuild it in one season.

Journeying from the coast to the desert, you’ll find so many things to do in Southern Oregon! This part of Oregon ...

Cape Lookout State Park Tillamook, Oregon Cape Lookout is located on a sand spit between Netarts Bay and the Pacific Ocean. This scenic park is a destination for hiking and beachcombing.

The Willamette has nine lookout towers: Carpenter Mountain, Coffin Mountain, Huckleberry, Indian Ridge, Iron Mountain, Little Cowhorn, Sand Mountain, Waldo Mountain and Warner Mountain.

A proposed mountain biking system could draw thousands of people to one of Oregon's most scenic coastlines. Not everyone is optimistic.

One of Oregon’s more popular mountaintop fire lookouts is set to be rebuilt after it was destroyed in the 2020 Labor Day wildfires. Bolan Mountain Fire Lookout, located just above the ...