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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.

Lookout Regions

The definition of the lookout regions used in this website’s Posts are the same as used by Ray Kresek in his book Fire Lookouts of the Northwest. 

8) WA Coast; 9) Northwest WA; 10) Mount Rainier; 11) Southwest WA; 12) South Central WA; 13) Central WA; 14) North Central WA; 15) Northeast WA; 16) Southeast WA

The Home page links the various sections of the web site together. Click on the underlined name to visit the desired section.

INDEX LIST of LOOKOUT POSTS ~ Allows access to the descriptions of our visits to Re-Located lookout sites and their Origin sites. The Posts are listed by the Origin site names
SUMMARY TABLE FOR ALL 4 TYPES OF RE-LO LOs ~ Table summarizes all of the Re-Located Lookout Origin to Re-Located site pairs. Includes info on Origin site name, re-location history, and any permission required to visit sites. Grouped by the 4 Types of re-locations.
USEFUL REFERENCES ~ List of some of the references that I have used to learn more about the lookouts included in this web site. Several of them have been crucial in discovering how to access the sites we have visited.
FRONT PAGE ~ Mini history of saving the lookouts.
NEW POSTS AND LO NEWS ~Our recent visits, new Lookout Posts and other new info
OUR ORIGIN AND RE-LO SITE VISIT LOG ~ dates of our visits to Origin & RE-LO sites as well as sites still to be visited.

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By hiker99ralph

I am a long time hiker and more recently have added lookout chasing to the hiking hobby. I served as a lookout fireman at the Hoodoo Lookout in the Blue Mountains in the summers of 1957 and 1958. I got away from lookouts after that until retiring when I started chasing lookouts.