The map above displays the locations of Colorado fire tower sites. For information on each individual lookout, click directly on the lookout name on the image itself or on the list to the left. For a detailed text list, click here.

For the purposes of this website, a fire lookout is defined as a permanent or semi-permanent structure erected for the primary purpose of fire detection. Other sites such as temporary patrol points, camps, lookouts with uncertain locations, or lookouts otherwise not shown on the map are listed below:

• Alta Mine
• "Gearhart Mountain" (model RR)
• Pueblo Mtn Park

Special thanks to Mark Roper, Tim Worth, Mark Nelson, Dave Bula, Roy Schweiker, Allen Farnsworth, Ron Kemnow, Sondra Kellogg and Susan Epstein for help with compiling information on these lookouts. This section is still being developed as research continues. If you have any historical information or photographs you'd be willing to contribute, please contact us. For photo credits click here.