West White Pine Lookout

Elevation: 10305
Status: Removed
Year Built: 1939?
Year Removed: ?
Structure Type: L4

Topographical Map

West White Pine was the sister lookout to Deadman Mtn to the northwest. Lookout cab was removed by helicopter and placed in Lee Martinez City Park in Fort Collins, Colorado. Was then transferred to current site at the Colorado State University-Environmental Learning Center where it sits awaiting restoration. You can read about the project here. An outhouse and other ruins remain at the top of West White Pine Mtn. There is little historical information on this lookout.

How to get there: From CO 14 and US 287, take CO 14 west for 13 miles, make a left(south) on Stove Prarie Rd(Rd 27). Continue south for 10 miles to gravel Buckhorn Rd(Rd 44H), on your right(west). Take Buckhorn Road 12.5 miles to the now closed Buckhorn Ranger Station. A Jeep track(unmarked FR100) heads north from the ranger station, passing a few houses. High clearence, 4WD vehicles can make it all the way to the top of West White Pine, but most will have to park a short ways up the road and hike to the site, a 3.1 mile(one way) trek, with 1900 feet of elevation gain.