Park Adventures - West Lookout Tower - Brown County Indiana State Park (United States) 4K

Описание: Join us as we tour the West Lookout Tower in Brown County Indiana State Park (United States. We'll discuss the history of this place and see some interesting perspectives inside and outside the lookout tower.

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Today we visited Brown County State Park located in the United States in the center of the southern half of the state of Indiana. It is among Indiana's largest and most visited state parks. We toured the West Lookout Tower, which is accessible from the West Gate entrance road.

A lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness. It is a small building, usually on the summit of a high vantage point to maximize viewing distance and range.

In 1933, during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt formed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), consisting of young men and veterans of World War I. It was during this time that the CCC set about building fire lookout towers, and access roads to those towers. The United States Forest Service took great advantage of the CCC workforce and initiated a massive program of construction projects, including fire lookout towers.

The West Lookout Tower was completed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) laborers in 1936. The building is a two-story structure overlooking a valley. The style of the lookout is classified as park rustic.

The heyday of fire lookout towers was from 1930 through 1950. From the 1960s the towers took a back seat to new technology, aircraft, and improvements in radios.