Smoke Report Locationless, Pennsylvania, United States
By Smokeybear on Wednesday 24 April 2002. Waypoint GC5102

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Located in the Cruz Verde mountain pass, in MAdrid, Spain.

This spot serves to prevent fires in the Monte Abantos and its surroundings, unluckyly did not make its ework some years ago...
 

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This Fire Tower is on my grandmother land on top of Cotton Gin Hill outside of Amory Ms
 

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The La Cumbre Look out tower above Santa Barbara, California.
 

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Edward J.McNamara Memorial Fire Tower is located on the town line of Millville and Mendon Massachusetts. It is owned and seasonally staffed by the Mass Department of Conservation and Recreation.
 

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This tower is located on Mt Ida in the state of Victoria in Australia. The tower is still in use.
 

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This tower sits near the town of St. Robert, Missouri. This tower is maintained by the Missouri Conservation Department. Don't know if it's still in use or not, we haven't had many fires lately. The kids thought they'd be brave and climg the stairs, until they made it to the first landing. Maybe next time! TFTC Rock-6
 

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Situated on a hillock (Locally: a koppie) 490m asl at a town called Grabouw. The koppie is called Sopieshoogte. (A "sopie" is a sip or snort of liquor or wine and "hoogte" means height.) This would probably mean that some time in the past, someone was having sundowners up here.
The tower is manned and had someone on duty.
The tower protects the State Pine Forest Plantations in this area.
Had no-one with me - thus only GPS & tower.
 

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I found the tower in the neaterlands.

Greetings

Team Hildanus
 

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An abandoned fire tower located in Western Lucas County: outside of Toledo, Ohio. It seems to have some cell or radio antennas on top now. The area still is fairly wooded with the large Oak Openings Preserve Metropark nearby. Elevation is 686 ft. Tower is approx 150 feet high. TFTC
 

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Bee Mtn. Lookout is in Polk County Arkansas just south of Mena, Arkansas in the Ouchita Mountains. The road to this abandoned tower is blocked & the closest I got to it is .25 miles. I was at an elevation some 500' less than the listed elevation of the peak which is 1920'. Looked straight up to me & since I am far from being part billy goat I took a pic from there.
It was built in 1938 by the CCC & is a 12'x 12' wooden structure on a single story rock base. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
 

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Drove by this one a few times finally stopped. found 3 others today that were all destroyed. this is the ROBY LOOKOUT TOWER in texas County MO. Its on a hill south of ft Leonard Wood MO.
 

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Found this tower on the way from Sumterville to Orlando, FL. This is a suburban fire tower, on a 'main drag' filled with strip malls - not where you'd expect to find a fire tower. That's why we had to stop - it was so unexpected.

[This entry was edited by Jersey Girl & Bruno on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 3:55:10 PM.]
 

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Actually two towers for your enjoyment. Tower one, known as the Camdenton tower is located west-north-west of Camdenton, Missouri, in Camden County. The tower is at 1046ft. elevation and is itself 100ft tall. As far as I can tell, the tower was built before WWII, and is currently owned (but not used) by the MO conservation Dept. Thanks to my daughter for taking the pix. This spot is actually at the start of a multicache.
The second tower is commonly called the Fort Wood Tower, although it is not located physically on Fort Leonard Wood, MO, but about a mile North of there, in Saint Robert, MO, Pulaski COunty. The Fort Wood tower was built around the time of WWII (~1944-45) about the same time as the Fort. The tower is located at 1013ft elev. and is also 100ft. tall. The tower is owned? by the Mo. Dept. of Conservation, but is not used. It sits right next to I-44, in case you are interested.
 

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Barrie Ontario Canada. This is an old fire tower that stands in the Simcoe Forest just north of Barrie. It is (obviously) no longer in use as a fire tower, but has been painted all around to attract visitors to the local campground and visitor's centre. The ladder, walkway and fencing are still intact, and those brave enough can still climb to the top to use the tower as a lookout to view the local tourist area.
 

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This is located in Pennsylvania. It is up on top of the highest point in Somerset County, in PA. The elevation on the sign said 3213 ft. We don't think that the tower has a name. It is on a mountain that actually has 2 names, Mt. Davis & Mt. Negro... This is because during the Civil War a black Sgt. save the lives of his whole company, but got shot and died doing so... He is buried up there somewhere... The officers did not know his name so the dedicated the mountain to him the only way they knew how. Now thats a story.

Thanks for the hunt, that makes kill #192 for us.

TEAM COPYCAT
California, PA

 

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This one is fairly recent and in excellent condition. Located outside St. Louis on the Tyson research preserve.
 

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Fire Tower near Salem, Wisconsin.
 

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3rd of 9 caches for the day (all but 2 being locationless caches - gotta get 'em done, gotta get 'em done). We were headed down to Branson (College of the Ozarks) to pick up the firetruck we bought (its a long story) when we spotted this fire tower. This is the Lohmer Fire Tower in Mark Twain National Forest in Barry County, MO. The altitude at the base of the tower is 1581'. Because the first flight of steps is missing on the tower we were unable to ascertain the altitude at the top of the tower. Located in the center of the base of this tower is a benchmark. This is an unmanned tower. Immediately behind the tower is a private residence.

[This entry was edited by Firefighter's Wife on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 at 9:30:41 AM.]
 

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Fire watch station somewhere in the Texas Hill Country NW of Kerrville Texas. From what we can tell, it is still operational.
 

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FOUND THIS FIRE LOOK OUT TOWER IN PILASKI CO KY..I HAD TO DRIVE UP THIS HILL IT WAS ON AND MAN WAS IT STEEP...THE TOWER IS A MAN TOWER IN THE SUMMER, BUT BY THE LOOKS OF IT NOBODY HAS BEEN HERE FOR A FEW SUMMERS. THE TOWER HELPS OVER LOOK SOME OD THE DANIEL BOONE NATIONAL FOREST. THE NAME OF THE ROAD IS FIRETOWER RD DUHHHH...THE ELEVATION IS 1342 FT BEARING ID SW...TFTC...RAGEXN!!!
 

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Stopped by and grabbed this on way back home. Seen it before and always wondered what it was.
 

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This Forrest Fire Tower is located in a National Forrest, the biggest i think, near Leiria, Portugal.
 

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This is Chenocetah Mountain Fire Tower in Cornelia, Habersham County, Georgia. Naturally, it is on Chenocetah Mountain. The elevation at the base of the tower is given as 1830 feet, but our GPSr read 1852 feet. The tower is approximately 40 feet high. It was built in 1937 by the WPA for the US Forest Service, who used it until 1975. It was unused until 1989 when the Georgia Forestry Commission took over staffing during fire season. During WWII, the tower was also used as an observation post for enemy aircraft. (I don't think they ever saw any.) It was listed on the National Register Of Historic Places in 1983.
 

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At the corner of 4th Street and 43rd Avenue, Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida. This was Thanksgiving Day, so not many people around to ask questions of. But it appears it is still in use.
 

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Weeks Fire Tower-New Hampshire - caching trip this summer
N44° 27.154 W71° 34.206
 

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I found this abandoned Fire Tower in Germany, near Haan, its on the "Jaberg" and its called the "BismarckTower"

Elev = 115m

Greetings from Germany Ralf
 

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Known to locals as "the tower," this is actually the Blue Ridge Lookout on Dunlop Mountain, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania. Elevation at the base is 1804' and if geometry serves, hight is approximately 120' from the roof peak. The tower is currently owned by Washington Twp. but previously had belonged to a church after being decomissioned probably in the 1960's. There is a well maintained chipped road up to the tower, but it is gated about a half mile down the hill. Today, numerous antennae can be seen near the top. Although the base is fenced and access is not intended, the gate is not locked and the tower can be climbed by those exercising caution. #88
 

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This smoke report is on top Barcelona city, in collserola. There are a total fire control.
Greetings from Catalonia, Spain.
 

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Found this neat fire tower on Rt. 17 in Sheldon, SC as we were coming thru on our way to Miami for the holidays. Didn't see any information about it.
 

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This fire tower in no nonger manned, but is in active use as an observation tower for tourists. It is scaled by thousands especially during the fall colour season for it located in the midst of a boreal hardwood (maple, beech, oak, ash, birch) forested area in central Ontario, Canada. The attached photo lists the historic origins of the Dorset Observation Tower. The tower site is open to the public from mid-May to mid-October, in this area with six months of 'winter' and the other six known to be 'tough-sledding'
 

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This is the fire tower at "Klein Spitskop" (which means little pointed hill), near Sabie, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. There is extensive forestry in the area, and there are many firetowers, most of which are totally unapproachable, because they are on strictly controlled private land, and we are ethical geocachers - hence the photo from quite a distance. The tall towers are radio masts - the fire tower is the glass-windowed building at the bottom. We decided to log this tower because it is different - most towers are perched on long stilts, this one is not - it looks like it is only 1-2 metres off the ground, but perched right on top of one of the highest hills in the area - maybe they didn't need any more height. This tower works in conjunction with a squadron of Dromader water bombers stationed a few kilometers away, at a grass strip airfield perched on the edge of a cliff overlooking Witklip dam.
 

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The former Forest Fire Lookout Tower in the Nacka Natural Park.
 

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Found this Lookout Tower on the Kentucky/Virginia state line,this is in Southwest Va and Eastern Kentucky.The name is Elva Knob or Pine Mountain Lookout.The Pine Mt. Trail which is now a new trail being made here. At last count Ky. had a total of 155 sites,of which 13 are still standing and 1 last known staffed.
 

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The Millville Fire Tower (US #59/NJ #22) is on Tower Road (a dirt/gravel woods road about 2/10 of a mile long) in Millville, Cumberland County, New Jersey. It is a working tower operated by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. It stands on a man-made foundation that is approximately 90 feet in elevation.
 

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Found this afternoon, while out looking for another cache in the area. This fire tower is located on the top of Mount Champlain, 473 meters high, and surrounded by Aliant transmission towers. We're not sure if it is still in use. Mount Champlain is located in New Brunswick, Canada, close to Saint John, between Routes 102 and 7.
TheRetiredHiker and SpruceGum
 

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Fremont Lookout Tower
Carter County, Missouri
Mark Twain National Forest, Ozark Mountains

This is no longer used as a lookout. There is a regular cache hidden about a tenth of a mile in the woods behind the tower: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b99e01d1-bc2b-479d-a5e2-c901df5a8aed
 

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A Fire Tower on at the top of Chuk Yeung Road, Sai Kung, Hong Kong. On the edge of Ma On Shan Country Park. GPS read 924' ASL. Tower height-unknown. The tower is manned seasonally.
 

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Found this fire tower last fall, but didn't know of this rev site till much later, so didn't include my gps in the photo. This tower is still a working tower but was closed for the season. It is West of hwy 44, South of Manila, Ut. It is on Ute Mountain and so named. The sign said that it was the first tower to be built in Utah.
 

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The Summit Fire Tower is located in Cattaraugus County,NY in Allegany State Park. It is actually located on South Mountain. It was constructed in the Fall of 1926. It is constructed of galvanized steel and the elevation is 2,375'. It has 100 steps. "Back in the day," they would give a certificate to those who completed the trip to the top! It is currently abandoned, but open to the public.
 

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Found this while on the top of the highest point in Arkansas...Mt. Magazine located in Logan County, just south of Paris.

The first time I witnessed this fire tower several years ago, you could climb up in it, but the day I was here it had been fenced off with 6' high cyclone fence; probably b/c it is being used as an antenna holder for various cell phone, pager and other communication companies. It has an old cabin at the base of it which was used as living quarters for the smoke reporters.

There are about 35 other communication towers nearby and we affectionately call this a "Tower Farm". Since there was a protectant type BIG DOG guarding the fire tower grounds, I thought it best to take a picture from a distance.

I know of 3 other fire towers in the area, but this is my favorite. Thanks for the cache.
 

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Peoh Point look out, in Kittitas County, WA. From this point, one could see just about forever in the north east and west. Look out was razed in 1996, the site is now home to a cell tower. Elevation 4020, officially. My GPS actually said 3996, so I was a few feet off. Here is the offical particulars from firelookout.com:

Perched atop a 2000' cliff, an L-4 cab was built in 1951. This was followed by a DNR live-in cab atop a 10 foot concrete block base built in 1974. It was ordered destroyed in 1996 by short-sighted DNR managers who don't appreciate the historic value of lookouts. It had briefly been seen in the television series "Northern Exposure" which was filmed in nearby Roslyn, Washington, and was located only 2 miles north of Taneum Point L.O. on the same ridge.

May I say that I had a death grip on my 3 year old daughter, because the 2000 foot cliff they mention in the description is straight down! WAYYYYYYY down. :0 What a fun cache, and thanks for the excuse to enjoy a gorgeous fall day in central Washington.
 

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The abandoned Orenaug Fire Tower is located on Orenaug Rocks in Orenaug Park in Woodbury, CT (Litchfield County). The elevation is 536 feet, and the tower is 71 tall stairs above that.

 

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Fire Tower on Rich Mountain in Polk County Arkansas
 

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Caching with Bushwack Bob today. We began our caching adventures in Pageland, SC, which is where we found this tower.
 

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I found this old firetower in Germany Heiligenhaus/Isenbügel. It is naer Essen in the "Ruhrgebiet". The old tower stands on a small hill (no name). Now an arcitect is living in the tower.

Thanks,

DelphinMaus
 

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found this one near the "cadarache" in southfrance, sorry no coords.  

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close to my cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=342bbcea-b4d9-4b05-bea4-15f0ea9b8f68
there is an no-more-in-use-military-area ( bomb-magazine )
on this area you can find this tower, see pics.  

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Sugar Camp Fire Tower is located on Sugar Camp Hill in Douglas County, Wisconsin. The elevation of the hill is 1250 feet and the tower is 100 feet high. The tower is not manned but the WI DNR has not abandoned it either. One idea the DNR has is to rent or sell space on the tower for antennas to cellular phone vendors.
This is fairly new tower although the DNR could not tell me when it was erected.
 

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I found this old Firetower in my Hometown Velbert, Germany. The Firetower is very old and stand at the top of the hill from the town.

TFTC

Greetings from Germany
Team Goldregen
 

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Found in Sheldon, SC. Still active run by the Beaufort county forest preservation group
 

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A fire tower off Hwy 44 near Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba.
 

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This Fire Watch Tower has been watching over Sherwood Forest for the past 30 years at least. it is made of concrete and is aproximately 40ft high - in recent years the top has been adorned with mobile phone masts. Photos not too brilliant as there is a lot of foliage at the moment.
 

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I found this Turm in Germany, NRW near Bochum. It is very old, from tjhe time of Bismark. The Name is "Bismark Turm". Gruß Snowdream
 

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Name of mountain or hill that the tower is on?
Name of the tower?

33, 28.471 N; 82, 15.94 - 468ft +Elevation of Tower Unknown

I do not think the tower is manned, but there is a Georgia Forestry Commission station on the site.
At the intersection of Wrightsboro Road and Ranger's Loop East of Augusta, Georgia
 

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This is a firelookout tower on State Road 64 in North Carolina. In between Roanoke Island and Plymouth. It looks kept up so I would assume it is active, but didn't see anybody either of the times we drove by.
 

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Surprised to find this one while traveling the back roads of Tennessee while heading back to Nashville after camping at the Land Between the Lakes recreational area.

Tower in now located in the middle of a farm -- appropriately called "Lookout Tower Farm"!! Tower is even decorated for the upcoming holiday!!
 

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Found this fire tower on a beautiful hike on top of Bald Mountain near Lake Willoughby, Vermont.
Located at 3402 feet.
 

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This Fire tower is located on RTE 158 west of Sunbury, NC. The tower is manned and they still keep a lookout for the fires. There was no one around at the station on our day of visit. Thanks Smokey the Bear for making this is a locationless. The Spotters!
 

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This tower is located in the Cypress Hills Provincial Park - it was built in the spring of 2005 and is located at an altitude of aprox. 4200 ft. - it is manned daily during the tourist season and during high risk fire periods - ie-not during rain storms etc. - I do know the tower watch personel but they prefer not to be mentioned - they are friends of mine and I'm going to honor that - the tower is steel construction and the observation deck is 9 storeys up - line of sight from on top is over 40 miles
 

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We've been waiting for a milestone cache to do this one. It turned out to be our 100th cache. Thanks for "placing" it.

Perkins Memorial Tower sits atop Bear Mountain in Bear Mountain State Park (Orange County) New York. The tower is still used in periods of high fire danger. Some links for more information are

http://www.firetower.org/listings/us212.html
http://www.friendsofpalisades.org/content.php?mode=parks&object_id=5
http://www.hvnet.com/panoramas/perkins02.htm
 

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Rondaxe (aka Bald) Mountain Fire Tower in the Adirondack Forest Preserve in New York State was officially closed by the DEC on 1990 after moe than ten years of harsh weather and a lack of maintenance had left the historic tower desperately in need of repair. One evening in May of 2002 a committee was formed to begin the task of restoring the tower to its original condition, developing an educational component that would highlight the tower's human and environmental history, and recruit partners to lend manpower and financial support for the project. Work continued on the rebuilding project and on June 18th, 2005, after its completion, a rededication ceremony was held at the tower. The new tower is a replica of the former tower, which stood on this spot protecting the mountain forests and its inhabitants for many years before deteriorating beyond repair. The view from the new tower is breathtaking, providing an overview of many of the mountain lakes in the area. Though this tower was logged by a fellow cacher in October of 2003, renovation was in its very early stages at that time. We thought that perhaps fire tower fans might enjoy seeing the end result of the hard work of those who spent so many hours carrying out the restoration.

[This entry was edited by Finn McCool and Molly on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 5:21:46 PM.]
 

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This is the Stony Point fire tower located in Pine Hill. The tower is located in the Hickory Run State Park in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The elevation at the base of the tower is 1860 ft. The height of the tower appears to be @ 70 ft. Judging by the locked fence it appears that the tower is not being used. It has not been entered into the National Registry as of yet.
 

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This is Mt Buninyong tower in Victoria, Australia. It is a manned tower, but there wont be anyone from the Deapartment of Natural Resources up there until the fire season.
Mt Buninyong is 719 metres high, the tower is approx 50 metres tall.

 

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This tower is located just north of DeLeon Springs, Florida USA it is still in use and is just off the main highway US 17. Today there was so much construction and vehicle traffic I had to take the picture from the side street thru the window. There are no mountains or real hills in Volusia County but this area is a little above average elevation, for this area, its about 100' above sea level.
Thanks
TheDeLandDuo
 

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The Geo-Ranger visited this abandoned watch tower located on the High Speed Sled Test Track at Holloman Air Force Base in Otero County, New Mexico. This observer tower has been there since the early 50s when some of the first testing of deceleration effects on the body were performed. Testing here has led to innovations like the lap and shoulder restraint seat belt found in all cars today.

Two years ago the land speed record (see picture) was set on this test track. In the early days, rocket testing often had failures so a watch tower was there for witnesses to monitor the test and report fiery test failures.

The High Speed Test Tracker tower is located at the 29178 ft mark of the over 50,000 foot long sled track. Nine satellites reported the location and the altitude is 4120.7 feet. There were two signs that designated this tower: the number 14-904 and TM-6.





[This entry was edited by Team Geo-Rangers on Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 8:57:22 PM.]

[This entry was edited by Team Geo-Rangers on Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 9:21:40 PM.]
 

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Judge Begbie Lookout. Elevation 1256 metres. Located South of 100 Mile House in the B.C. Cariboo area.The lookout is no longer in use and unfortunatley has very little other informtion at the site. Great views. I climbed up to this tower as thunder rolled across the sky. Did this cache on a twenty cache junket through northern B.C.
 

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Found this one between Hennigsdorf and Velten in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, app. 22 km NW of the centre of Berlin.
From its looks you could classify it as a typical East German Fire Tower built probably 30 or 40 years ago.
I do not know if it is in use any more; but with all the mobile phone antennas on it I guess it is reused for a new purpose in its "second life".
The tower stands in flat land a little more than 1 km from the river Havel before it enters Berlin. The elevation is app. 36 m above sea level. The height of the tower I can only estimate as app. 30 metres.
Thank you for this cache!
With best regards from Germany,
Wolfgang
 

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This fire tower is located in the headquarter of the "Parco Nazionale del Circeo", in Sabaudia, Italy.
This fire tower is still in use and it is very important since, especially during summer, the national park is very sensible of fire.

 

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This tower was located in Tarboro, North Carolina. This is still in use today for the North Carolina Forest Service County Headquarters.
 

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Tower is in Prince George County Virginia, off state route 618 between Garysville and Disputanta.

Was fenced off and couldn't tell if it was in use any more.

Got as close as I could for the picures through the woods to the tower.

TFTC
 

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found this tower on finzel road, md 546, just below finzel in garrett county, md. tower is located on little savage mountain at an elevation of 2800 feet. the tower is fenced and appears to be abandoned, although i could see a few antennas, so it may still have some uses. tftc, julia51:)
 

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This is an active fire tower in concord NH off Oak Hill. Me and my dogs hiked to it from Shaker road.
 

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At the end of Ridge Road (Trail #1) in Gatineau Park, Quebec

This high tech fire tower has solar power panels, a wind generator, and a surveillance camera, but it doesn't have anyone staffing it! It also has a tall fence around it. I've seen pictures of local cachers (who shall remain nameless! posing on it ) so maybe that's a new development?

I found it on top of the Eardley Escarpement, at 390 meters elevation, on my way through for a day of caching in this excellant park close to Ottawa, the nation's capital. Cheers

Bluelamb03
 

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This fire tower is located on Hunter Mountain in Hunter, NY. The tower is at the peak whitch is 4050 feet. The tower is about 50 feet high. it is abandond but is open to anyone who is willing to climb the mountain.
 

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This is the tower in the forests of Wittmund, Germany (23m).
TFTC
Keitaro64
 

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Forgot that I had logged this already in July and discovered I had photographs still in my digital camera!

Mt. Goodnow is one of many firetowers in the Adirondacks. Built in 1922, 60 feet tall, it rests on the summit of Mt. Goodnow, in Essex County, near the town of Newcomb. Elevation of Mt. Goodnow is 2865 feet.


 

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Tower is located on SR 60, east of Brandon, in Hillsborough County, Florida. I think it is deserted; and there is a BM located in the vicinity.
 

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This is the Mowry Fire Tower. It is located on Woonsocket Hill in North Smithfield RI (Providence County). The elevation is 586 feet, and the height is 65 feet. It was constructed in 1956. It replaced a previous tower that had been built in 1926. The State sold the tower and land to the town in 1990. It is in good shape, but I don't believe anyone goes up on a regular basis.
 

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This lookout tower is in Mt Crawford State Forest, to the northeast of Adelaide, South Australia. No mountain name is given on the local topo map though. Certainly a good view from here, all the way to the water and covering a lot of landscape. GPS was saying 531 metres at the top which agrees with the maps. Unattended when I was there, fire danger season hasn't started yet and it was a showery day. All fenced off so you can't get within about 10 metres unluckily.
 

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I found this fire lookout tower while logging maccamob's "Rouse About (Vulcan 4)" cache on Mt Rouse near Penshurst, Victoria, Australia. The tower serves a dual purpose (like a lot of them probably do these days) in that it hosts a number od telecommunications aerials. There is also a telecomms tower beside it.
 

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Mt Lofty Fire Tower. The tower covers an extensive area from the highest peak in the region. Adelaide, South Australia. The plaque gives most of the details.

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