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EAST FRONT - North Mountain Lookout, Stanislaus National Forest, Groveland, Tuolumne County, CA
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EAST FRONT - North Mountain Lookout, Stanislaus National Forest, Groveland, Tuolumne County, CA
Depicted place California; Tuolumne County; Groveland
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CAL,55-GROLA.V,2-6
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  • Significance: North Mountain lookout exemplifies high, steel tower and live-in cab fire lookout construction on a remote and rugged wildland peak. It is a structure where design, function and setting intertwine to form an integrated whole.
  • Though only 25 years old, North Mountain lookout is a member of an architectural genre which is fast-disappearing due to the ability to detect fires by satellite and other means. Aside from rarity, the spectacular setting, the integrity, the grouping of related structures and the absence of intrusive additions to the lookout site contribute to its significance.
  • Though North Mountain was the location of an earlier lookout, the extant lookout was constructed in 1963. It is one of only three remaining lookout structures in California with a K-brace tower of over 50 feet, combined with a live-in observation cab. Of these three lookouts, North Mountain is the only one for which its setting and integrity positively contribute to its significance.
  • (Note: Neither of the of the other two lookouts having the same configuration as North Mountain, i.e., Mt. Elizabeth on the Stanislaus National Forest and Pickett Peak on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, were found eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in accord with the "Fixed Point Fire Detection in the USDA Forest Service, R-5 Programmatic Agreement," August 1987 draft.)
  • North Mountain lookout's physical setting is atop a 5754' peak that straddles the divide between the mainstem of the Tuolumne River and Cherry Creek. The viewshed of North Mountain includes the Hetch Hetchy Valley and high country in Yosemite National Park to the east, Pilot Peak to the south, Duckwall Mountain to the west and Lake Eleanor and Cherry Valleys to the north.
  • Survey number: HABS CA-2271
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca1503.photos.362919p
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Object location37° 50′ 17.99″ N, 120° 13′ 54.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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