10/10 experience! Clean lookout, great views, well-maintained road getting to the lookout, and about 33 minutes from the town of Troy. It was nice having the locked gate at the bottom of the mountain ensuring privacy. I wish more lookouts did that! While we were there, we traveled to the Ross Creek Cedars and had lunch at the Halfway Bar (you drive by it to get to the Cedars) highly recommend both! This is my 3rd lookout of the summer, and I have zero complaints. Verizon and AT&T both had good service.

10/10 experience! Clean lookout, great views, well-maintained road getting to the lookout, and about 33 minutes from the town of Troy. It was nice having the locked gate at the bottom of the mountain ensuring privacy. I wish more lookouts did that! While we were there, we traveled to the Ross Creek Cedars and had lunch at the Halfway Bar (you drive by it to get to the Cedars) highly recommend both! This is my 3rd lookout of the summer, and I have zero complaints. Verizon and AT&T both had good service.

10/10 experience! Clean lookout, great views, well-maintained road getting to the lookout, and about 33 minutes from the town of Troy. It was nice having the locked gate at the bottom of the mountain ensuring privacy. I wish more lookouts did that! While we were there, we traveled to the Ross Creek Cedars and had lunch at the Halfway Bar (you drive by it to get to the Cedars) highly recommend both! This is my 3rd lookout of the summer, and I have zero complaints. Verizon and AT&T both had good service.

it was so magical! we hope to visit more fire lookouts!

it was so magical! we hope to visit more fire lookouts!

it was so magical! we hope to visit more fire lookouts!

Amazing lookout, gorgeous views and nice and private. Gorgeous sunrises, and the full stove is such a blessing! Also we left our JBL speaker thereon accident, so if you take it, you're welcome lol.

Amazing lookout, gorgeous views and nice and private. Gorgeous sunrises, and the full stove is such a blessing! Also we left our JBL speaker thereon accident, so if you take it, you're welcome lol.

Amazing lookout, gorgeous views and nice and private. Gorgeous sunrises, and the full stove is such a blessing! Also we left our JBL speaker thereon accident, so if you take it, you're welcome lol.

This lookout was so fantastic. The road to the tower was not bad, a few big rocks but nothing a high clearance vehicle can't handle. Lots of steep stairs. Gorgeous views, turkey buzzards soaring by on thermals. We didn't see any other wildlife. The cabin was clean and well equipped and there is a really cool printed journal written by someone who lived seasons there in the '40s. The one thing I would caution about was the trap door to the stairs, which served as part of the wraparound balcony when it was down. It was VERY heavy. Lifting it from above was hard. Pushing it up when it's down and you're on the stairs is also hard. When you leave, you have to let it down over your own head, which is extremely difficult given the steepness of the stairs you're standing on. Be very, very careful with this!