SQUAW MOUNTAIN
Clackamas County - Mt. Hood National Forest - 4S-6E-11
September 5, 1918: "The Squaw Mountain forest service lookout station is a building 12 x 12 about 10 feet high, part lumber and part glass. Here are the telephone instruments and the revolving lamp, which has a flash light of red, blue and green. This station is in direct communication with the lookouts at Plazza 4 miles east, with the one on the summit of Mt. Hood, with the one near Cascadia on the Santiam Mountain. Mr. Wallace of Estacada is chief forester for the Squaw Mountain division. Mr. Sherrod is in charge of all forest rangers there.
The Lookout is 4972 feet above sea level. The view is most beautiful. At night almost every city with electric lights in the Willamette Valley may be plainly seen. The lights of Electric cars can also be seen over the valley. It is certainly worth one's time and trouble to take the trip for the view alone. Near the Lookout is a spring of the purest, coldest water, though by mountain is entirely surrounded the canyons a 1000 feet or more in depth. Just what forces the water up so near the summit is something to ponder over." (Aurora Observer)
The Lookout is 4972 feet above sea level. The view is most beautiful. At night almost every city with electric lights in the Willamette Valley may be plainly seen. The lights of Electric cars can also be seen over the valley. It is certainly worth one's time and trouble to take the trip for the view alone. Near the Lookout is a spring of the purest, coldest water, though by mountain is entirely surrounded the canyons a 1000 feet or more in depth. Just what forces the water up so near the summit is something to ponder over." (Aurora Observer)
August 14, 1919: "Geo. Oglesby and several parties will start for Squaw Mountain huckleberry patch Saturday with a team. George will run a pack train from the Fanton ranch to the Lookout Forest Station at $5 per trip each way." (Aurora Observer)
June 20, 1932: "Kenneth Dart, seventh and eighth grade teacher in the Hubbard school, left for his usual summer occupation which is lookout man in the forest service. Dart is stationed on Squaw mountain. His mother, Mrs. Etta Dart, expects to join him as soon as the weather conditions are more favorable. At present she is still at her home in West Hubbard." (Daily Capital Journal)
July 24, 1932: "A new kind of lookout is being constructed on Squaw mountain as a safeguard against lightning. An arrangement is made whereby the electric shock is grounded, but is not the type of lightning rods so popular in the east. This is a kind of heavy construction built around the station." (The Sunday Oregonian)
July 31, 1932: "Kenneth Dart, the seventh and eighth grade teacher of Hubbard has written of his forestry work on Squaw mountain to his friends in Hubbard. They have built a new standard lookout house 14 feet square completely inclosed in glass. Mr. Dart and his mother live in this house.
Besides they have constructed three miles of new telephone line and installed a two way switch board. There is still snow and ice on Squaw Mountain but the road goes within three miles of the lookout station." (Statesman Journal)
September 2, 1932: "Mrs. Etta Dart has returned from Lookout station on Squaw mountain where she spent the summer with her son, Kenneth Dart. Mr. Dart will return to Hubbard in time for the opening of school." (Statesman Journal)
September 22, 1935: "Paul Ratzburg, who has been on Mennis Rock, and Elmer Klutke, on Squaw mountain lookouts, are both home. They were stationed on these lookouts during the fire season." (Statesman Journal)
February 15, 1957: “Squaw Mountain L.O. Was manned more than usual this year due to the number of lightning storms.” * “Two new shutters were constructed for the Squaw Mountain ELO.” (I-information – Historical Report, Estacada District - 1956)
February 10, 1958: “Squaw Mt. LO manned 25 days.” * “A cat walk was built on Squaw Mt. Lookout to make the building safe for occupancy. The lookout was painted and two new shutters were installed. The door was replaced after someone forced their way in the building during late fall 1956 or spring 1957.” * "Aerial markings were painted on Bedford Point Lookout, Squaw Mt. And Indian Ridge Lookout.” (I-information – Historical Report, Estacada District - 1957)
January 15, 1959: “The last one-half mile of the road to Squaw Mountain Lookout was improved to make it safe for vehicle travel." (I-information – Historical Report, Estacada District - 1958)
1964: The lookout deactivated.
Removed