Visit Gorp's Guide to the Badger Creek Wilderness, which features Lookout Mountain Check out the Flag Point Page on Zeyn O'Leary's Lookout Site... ...or Rex Kamstra's excellent Fivemile Butte and Flag Point Pages GORP has a page dedicated to renting the Fivemile Butte Lookout Don't miss Omar's images from his 2000 and 2002 Lookout Mountain Hikes The historic Balch Hotel provides restored rooms on Dufur's Main Street (541-467-2277) Suzi and Dennis Smith have converted her grandfather's farmhouse into the Dufur Valley Bed and Breakfast, along Dufur Valley Road. Plan your visit around the Dufur Threshing Bee, held each year in early August The excellent Green Trails maps cover the Badget Creek area with the Mount Hood (No. 462) and Flag Point (No. 463) sheets. You can order them direct from Green Trails

You can purchase these guidebooks at Powell's Online Bookstore: Fred Barnstad's thorough book includes pretty much every trail in the Badger Creek Wildernes, including the Divide Trail and Lookout Mountain, as well as hikes on Mt. Hood. Tom Foley and Tish Steinfeld have compiled an excellent guide to renting fire lookouts and guard stations in the Pacific Northwest, including sites in the vicinity of Lookout Mountain.  William Sullivan's excellent book includes several hikes in the Badger Creek area, including Lookout Mountain, with outstanding narrative and great sketch maps.

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