The big picture: The U.S. Forest Service rents dozens of its old, remote fire lookouts now ... including Oak Flat Lookout in Sequoia National Forest and Sardine Peak Lookout in Tahoe National ...

Sardine Peak Lookout was the second Truckee area lookout ... At one time there were 5,000 forest fire lookouts in the United States, but that number has dwindled to less than 2,000, largely due to the ...

Not long after, they all went up in flames in the devastating Great Fire of 1910 ... The trail has more tree coverage around the Sardine Lakes lookout, though it also becomes rockier, switching ...