Sawmill Lookout

This fire lookout was on a high hill at the northern end of the Kitsap Peninsula. Metskers maps shows this location as being a lookout on the 1955 and 1970 maps. Accessing the summit from the north side is a road called lookout Lane, which leads to a small parcel owned by the Washington Water Service Company at the highpoint. There is public access to this point. In 2017, a colleague and I interviewed 92 year old retired DNR man John Kingsbury who worked at the DNR for 29 years. His area was the Kitsap Peninsula, working out of an office in Port Orchard in 1952. When that office closed, and became headquartered in Enumclaw, he believes all the paperwork went out the back door and burned, hence the lack of information about this site. John independent of anything I said, brought up this lookout site. Although he could no longer remember a name or exact location, he identified the correct area just off the old Suquamish-Port Gamble Road. He remembers it as a ground house. The following year in 2018, lookout enthusiast Ralph O. visited the site and encountered a neighbor who confirmed there was a lookout at this general location. She told him that the man who had built her house knew about the lookout and had told her about it. He said that it was just at the turn around at the end of the paved street Lookout Lane. The builder, and previous owner of their house, had built a lookout replica and had erected it near the turn around. After the new owners bought the house they moved the replica into the edge of the woods next to their side yard. (Images below). The replica seems to be a tree house or playhouse copy of a wooden timber lookout tower, about 15-20 feet tall with about a 6 x 6 wooden cab on top.

From Poulsbo, take Highway 37 north for several miles to NE Gunderson Road. Turn right, then another right onto Stottlemeyer Road NE. Follow Stottlemeyer Road NE a short distance to a left on NE Iverson Lane. In a half mile or so veer right turning up NE Lookout Lane. Follow to the end at a T. Turn right and the water company property is on the right. Paved entire way.

Washington Lookout Sites

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