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If you are looking for something like this in the western United States, check out fire lookouts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_lookout https://en.wikiped
by jweir 8y ago
If you are looking for something like this in the western United States, check out fire lookouts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_lookout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_lookout
You can rent a number of them from the Forest Service. The ones I have stayed in offer an amazing view and some of the best night skies I have ever seen.
https://www.firelookout.org/lookout-rentals.html https://www.firelookout.org/lookout-rentals.html
- mirimir 8y agoVarious state and national forests in the US have public-use cabins. There used to be many, many more of them. But many have been sold off, or eliminated because they were too frequently trashed. Way back in the day, friends and I used to live in them, on an itinerant basis. Everything that I owned was saturated with woodsmoke. Some city friends would joke that they didn't need to look in the mailbox to know if they'd received a letter from me. They could smell it at some distance ;)
- masklinn 8y agoAnd if you want a subset of the experience without the need to go <outside>, "Firewatch" lets you play a fire lookout in the waning days of 1989. And apparently one of the updates added a free roam mode. Which I can only assume I missed as I got the game waaaay after free mode was released and being forced along the plot was my only regret.