And if that comes into contact with dried plant life or something like that, it can set it on fire." It says the Mountain Beautiful Trail on Lookout Mountain will be closed until further notice.

LEWISTON – Fire lookouts occupy an uncommon spot in the world. Their function is simultaneously anachronistic and essential. They exist in wildly remote spaces yet are satellites of human ...

After Bolan Mountain Lookout burned down, the U.S. Forest Service formed an alliance with a trails group to rebuild a popular ...