Google maps is not your friend for this trip! Google will try to take you up the backside of the mountain. The driving instructions in the listing are accurate. Thank you to the local BCH chapter for so lovingly restoring and caring for this special place. There is a wood pile that they donate for cabin use just beyond the outhouse--they ask that the supply within the cabin be replenished from the pile near the outhouse with whatever you might have used during your stay, upon your departure. :)

What a cool place!! We were in awe with the views… The lookout was in great condition. We will definitely be back.

I enjoyed two great nights, first was clear and the stars were amazing, the second I experienced some lightening off in the distance but it lit up the lookout with every strike, an experience I will not forget. The accommodations are great and the hike up was not too bad at only 2.7 miles. The lookout was a good base camp for me, using the next full day to hike down, travel to another Trailhead, hike and back to the lookout for the night. Bringing my own water both times I hiked into the lookout made the weight of bringing in water not bad at all. The spring that is 3/4 miles down the hill from the lookout was reported on 9/1 to be dry so I never did go check it for myself since I had plenty and the wild horse plains back country horseman had plenty of water in the lookout if I did not want to use what I brought. The wild horse plains back country horseman have really made the lookout a peaceful, amazing place to stay.