Three Mile Post Finder and Platform
Lookout elevation: Unknown
The Three Mile Post Firefinder was reported as a training lookout, a firefinder only, said to be located at the 3-mile post on the Corral Pass road. The first information about this site was obtained from the list in the book "Lookouts Firewatchers of the Cascades and Olympics". I do not know where they came into the information. Later I found information while researching AWS sites. When the AWS program was searching for a winter location in the White River Valley to replace the summer station at Sun Top Lookout, there were two options being considered. One was Snoquera, known today as Camp Sheppard, the former Boy Scout Camp, now a trailhead. The second location they were considering was “a post on the Corral Pass Road”. “Mr. Carroll went to the point south of Deep Creek in Section 35, T.18N., R. 10 E., where there is a low observation platform”. I have visited the two sites below and I would guess that site 2 had the observation platform.
Washington Fire Lookouts
Locations one and two searched.
View looking SW from site 2
Aircraft Warning Service document - August 31, 1942
Aircraft Warning Service document - September 3, 1942
Crystal Mountain
Site 2: Park in the huge pullout on the switchback, find a waytrail going south (1 minute walk) to the viewpoint
Not the lookout spot but a good viewpoint about a mile up the road. Park at the switchback just below the GATE. There is a minor trail that goes up to point 2,974 for some nice views of the area. The three mile mark is 1,600 feet higher up the ridge.
Site two with a metal detector
Mile marker 3 still has a marker today
Parking at site 2 on the switchback
Some wire at site 1
Lots of old cans at site one but its right off a road