What’s a Re-Located Lookout?
Many fire lookouts that were no longer considered useful in fire detection were destroyed in place. Others, the Re-Located Lookouts, were moved to a new location where they were used for other purposes. Some of these, the Type 1 Re-Located LOs, were given or sold to towns or public museums to be displayed to the public. Others, the Type 2 Re-Located LOs, were sold to private lookout fans who moved them to their private property. Another few, the Type 3 Re-Located LOs, were moved to a second location where they continued to be used in fire detection. There were plans to move several others, but these moves failed. I called these failures the Type 4 Re-Locations. Each re-location involves two sites; 1) the Origin Site where it was used in fire detection and 2) the Re-Location Site it was moved to. In some cases the re-located LO was later destroyed.
INDEX LIST OF LOOKOUT POSTS
THE POSTS ARE LISTED BY ORIGIN LOOKOUT SITE NAMES. CLICK A BOX BELOW TO GO TO THE DESIRED POST.
Post Block Color Code
Lookout Post has been Published and is Available
Lookout Post has not been Published
You can call up sets of Posts with similar characteristics by clicking an entry in the Menu at the bottom. (i.e. clicking WA Coast will pull up all the Posts with Origin or Re-Lo Sites in the Washington Coast Region.)