I’m not ready to give it up.” The Cement Ridge tower, which turns 75 years old this year, is one of seven fire lookout towers still being used in the Black Hills. There were about 25 active ...

Brownell is an experienced lookout, having served for more than a decade in the South Dakota Black Hills ... There are seven towers covering the Tonto National Forest, plus another on the Rim ...

He wanted to build something unique which would help promote the Black Hills, with fire-lookout ... Miller says South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will be visiting the tower soon and would love ...

For the past three years, a bungalow cabin removed from the Clearwater National Forest and a replica of a 1930s-era lookout have ... from the Black Hills of South Dakota, from the area where ...

The 25 tower sites in the Black Hills now range from the stone ruins of long-ago deactivated towers to the well-preserved, wood-and-stone or metal structures of active towers. Som ...

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