Lookouts

* History of 75 fire-protection lookouts

* More than 200 photos from archival and personal collections

* Selected access information

Once the most advanced means of fire detection, the fire-protection lookout towers built and manned in the mid- to late-1900s in Washington state are now historic sites and an intrinsic part of the heritage of the Northwest and its people. Lookouts: Firewatchers of the Cascades and Olympics is a complete history of the lookouts and a t…