JEFFERSON COUNTY
MOUNT JUPITER
Olympic National Forest
26N-3W-33
26N-3W-33
1934: A standard R-6 plan 14x14 wood frame ground house was constructed on the Hoodsport Ranger District. (Lookout Station - Structural Inventory)
July 7, 1956: "All fire protection stations in the Quilcene Ranger District of the Olympic National Forest except Mount Jupiter Station have been manned, District Ranger Harold Nyberg reports. Mount Jupiter is still snowed in." (Port Angeles Evening News)
1968: The lookout was removed.
DESIGNATION - JUPITER
PID - SY1612
STATE/COUNTY- WA/JEFFERSON
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - MOUNT JUPITER (2017)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1955 (LSB)
THE STATION IS AT THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT HOUSE ON
JUPITER MOUNTAIN, A HIGH ROCKY PEAK BETWEEN THE DOSEWALLIPS AND
THE DUCKABUSH RIVERS. IT IS ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUILCENE,
7-1/2 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF BRINNON AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
THE BRIDGE ON U.S. HIGHWAY 101 OVER THE DUCKABUSH RIVER AND CAN
BE SEEN FROM THIS POINT.
TO REACH FROM THE BRINNON POST OFFICE, GO SOUTHERLY ON
U.S. HIGHWAY 101 FOR 3.1 MILES TO A Y-FORK. TURN RIGHT AND FOLLOW
THE JUPITER TRAIL ROAD WEST AND NORTHWEST FOR 3.4 MILES TO A
FORK, KEEP LEFT FORK FOR 0.3 MILE TO ANOTHER FORK, KEEP LEFT FORK
FOR 2.2 MILES TO THE END OF TRUCK TRAVEL AT A SWITCHBACK AND SIGN
MT. JUPITER TRAIL 7 NO WATER ON THIS TRAIL. FOLLOW THE TRAIL
WESTERLY FOR ABOUT 7 MILES TO THE LOOKOUT HOUSE AND STATION.
THIS IS ABOUT A 3 1/2-HOUR HORSE PACK.
THE LAST TWO MILES OF THE TRAIL IS VERY ROUGH WITH SEVERAL SHORT SWITCHBACKS ON THE ROCKY, NARROW TRAIL. THERE IS SPACE ON TOP OF
THE PEAK, JUST EAST OF THE LOOKOUT HOUSE, WHERE THE PACK STRING
MAY BE HALTED AND LED ONE AT A TIME ON UP TO THE LOOKOUT. THE
CLOSEST WATER AVAILABLE WAS FROM A SNOW BANK WEST OF AND LOWER THAN THE LOOKOUT HOUSE.
THE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS A 14-FOOT SQUARE FRAME BUILDING, 12 FEET
HIGH FROM THE CATWALK TO THE TOP OF THE ROOF. THE EAVES ARE 7.83
FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL.
THE CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS STATION JUPITER (USGS) 1940.
PID - SY1612
STATE/COUNTY- WA/JEFFERSON
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - MOUNT JUPITER (2017)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1955 (LSB)
THE STATION IS AT THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT HOUSE ON
JUPITER MOUNTAIN, A HIGH ROCKY PEAK BETWEEN THE DOSEWALLIPS AND
THE DUCKABUSH RIVERS. IT IS ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QUILCENE,
7-1/2 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF BRINNON AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
THE BRIDGE ON U.S. HIGHWAY 101 OVER THE DUCKABUSH RIVER AND CAN
BE SEEN FROM THIS POINT.
TO REACH FROM THE BRINNON POST OFFICE, GO SOUTHERLY ON
U.S. HIGHWAY 101 FOR 3.1 MILES TO A Y-FORK. TURN RIGHT AND FOLLOW
THE JUPITER TRAIL ROAD WEST AND NORTHWEST FOR 3.4 MILES TO A
FORK, KEEP LEFT FORK FOR 0.3 MILE TO ANOTHER FORK, KEEP LEFT FORK
FOR 2.2 MILES TO THE END OF TRUCK TRAVEL AT A SWITCHBACK AND SIGN
MT. JUPITER TRAIL 7 NO WATER ON THIS TRAIL. FOLLOW THE TRAIL
WESTERLY FOR ABOUT 7 MILES TO THE LOOKOUT HOUSE AND STATION.
THIS IS ABOUT A 3 1/2-HOUR HORSE PACK.
THE LAST TWO MILES OF THE TRAIL IS VERY ROUGH WITH SEVERAL SHORT SWITCHBACKS ON THE ROCKY, NARROW TRAIL. THERE IS SPACE ON TOP OF
THE PEAK, JUST EAST OF THE LOOKOUT HOUSE, WHERE THE PACK STRING
MAY BE HALTED AND LED ONE AT A TIME ON UP TO THE LOOKOUT. THE
CLOSEST WATER AVAILABLE WAS FROM A SNOW BANK WEST OF AND LOWER THAN THE LOOKOUT HOUSE.
THE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS A 14-FOOT SQUARE FRAME BUILDING, 12 FEET
HIGH FROM THE CATWALK TO THE TOP OF THE ROOF. THE EAVES ARE 7.83
FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL.
THE CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS STATION JUPITER (USGS) 1940.