OKANOGAN COUNTY
GOAT PEAK
Chelan > Okanogan National Forest
36N-20E-7
36N-20E-7
October 1926: "Glen Allen, Goat Peak lookout, reported smoke where the smoke should not have been. Guard Johnson found smoke where smoker had no permit. Smoker taken before J.P. at Winthrop, and fined $10.00 and costs. This only goes to show we need our lookouts longer than September 15. Allen is still on watch at Goat Peak. (September 18)" (Six Twenty-Six)
June 4, 1930: “Frank Burge started a man out to the Goat peak on eight mile look-out station last week, but a snow storm over took them before they had gone far and they had to return to the ranger station. Owing to the dry condition before the last rain they thought it best to locate a look-out early, but the storm of the last few days left snow all over the peaks. This particular station is quite high and is very hard to get to. There are many rough, steep places which have to be blasted out every year before the trail is passable.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
June 4, 1930: “Frank Burge started a man out to the Goat peak on eight mile look-out station last week, but a snow storm over took them before they had gone far and they had to return to the ranger station. Owing to the dry condition before the last rain they thought it best to locate a look-out early, but the storm of the last few days left snow all over the peaks. This particular station is quite high and is very hard to get to. There are many rough, steep places which have to be blasted out every year before the trail is passable.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
June 11, 1930: “As a result of existing conditions lookouts have already been posted on Goat peak, on the upper Methow river. Others will be sent to their posts in the near future.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
June 11, 1930: “As a result of existing conditions lookouts have already been posted on Goat peak, on the upper Methow river. Others will be sent to their posts in the near future.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
September 13, 1930: “When Bill Wehmeyer took a pack-horse up to the look-out on Goat peak Saturday, he was caught in a storm and had to spend the night there. He says the Boones who have that station expect to move down next Monday.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
September 13, 1930: “When Bill Wehmeyer took a pack-horse up to the look-out on Goat peak Saturday, he was caught in a storm and had to spend the night there. He says the Boones who have that station expect to move down next Monday.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
September 24, 1930: “Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Boone and baby who stay at the look-out station on Goat Peak made a trip down to get their lost horse. They expected to finish the season this week, but owing to weather conditions will be kept there two weeks longer. The horse is kept at the station and used to pack water from a spring 1,000 feet below the lookout cabin.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
September 24, 1930: “Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Boone and baby who stay at the look-out station on Goat Peak made a trip down to get their lost horse. They expected to finish the season this week, but owing to weather conditions will be kept there two weeks longer. The horse is kept at the station and used to pack water from a spring 1,000 feet below the lookout cabin.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
July 4, 1931: “Mrs. Boone came down Monday from Goat peak where her husband is in charge of the forest service lookout station. She said that during the recent electrical storm the lightning struck the lookout station twice without damaging it and for hours during the early evening it was immersed in black clouds with flashes of lightning playing all about it.
Mrs. Boone left for Omak where she will spend a few days with relatives before returning to Goat peak.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
July 4, 1931: “Mrs. Boone came down Monday from Goat peak where her husband is in charge of the forest service lookout station. She said that during the recent electrical storm the lightning struck the lookout station twice without damaging it and for hours during the early evening it was immersed in black clouds with flashes of lightning playing all about it.
Mrs. Boone left for Omak where she will spend a few days with relatives before returning to Goat peak.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
July 11, 1931: “The forest service has been fixing trail and packing up to Goat Peak lookout the last two days. Duer Johnson, who was graduated from the U. of W. in June, has been given the position of inspector of all the lookout stations.” (The Wenatchee Daily World )
July 11, 1931: “The forest service has been fixing trail and packing up to Goat Peak lookout the last two days. Duer Johnson, who was graduated from the U. of W. in June, has been given the position of inspector of all the lookout stations.” (The Wenatchee Daily World )
July 23, 1931: “Another new telephone line is being constructed from the lookout on Goat peak to Sunrise peak, a distance of five miles. The work is being done by Duer Johnson and Harry Tuttle.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
July 23, 1931: “Another new telephone line is being constructed from the lookout on Goat peak to Sunrise peak, a distance of five miles. The work is being done by Duer Johnson and Harry Tuttle.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
July 23, 1932: “A total of 76 radio sets of the short wave types recently tested out by the forest service are being installed in the Chelan forest according to R.E. Johnson, dispatcher at the Winthrop ranger station.
The 11 large sending and receiving sets are being installed at Okanogan, where the forest supervisor is located, and at the following lookout station: Goat Peak." (The Wenatchee World)
July 23, 1932: “Mrs. Douglas MacRae of Wenatchee spent the first of the week with her husband at Goat Peak lookout station. Sunday morning she left here for the peak, but took the wrong trail up the creek. Miles on the Goat creek trail had been covered before she knew it was the wrong one. Hours had passed, her husband was tracking her horse and residents of the valley had been notified by telephone that she was lost, when she turned back down the trail.
Mrs. MacRae met MacRae and they reached the station before dark. She, like all who make the trip to the peak, was enthusiastic about the wonderful view.” (The Wenatchee World)
July 23, 1932: “Mrs. Douglas MacRae of Wenatchee spent the first of the week with her husband at Goat Peak lookout station. Sunday morning she left here for the peak, but took the wrong trail up the creek. Miles on the Goat creek trail had been covered before she knew it was the wrong one. Hours had passed, her husband was tracking her horse and residents of the valley had been notified by telephone that she was lost, when she turned back down the trail.
Mrs. MacRae met MacRae and they reached the station before dark. She, like all who make the trip to the peak, was enthusiastic about the wonderful view.” (The Wenatchee World)
July 7, 1933: “Douglas McRae was packed up to the Goat Peak lookout station the end of the week. Bill Wehmeyer who took supplies there Thursday, reports snow seven feet deep still on some of the high northern slopes.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
July 14, 1934: “A crew of forest service men are working this week on the trail between Mazama and Goat peak lookout station. It had been poorly constructed in several places and in packing up supplies recently one of Bill Wehmeyer's horses went off the trail and was severely cut. The horse is still being cared for at the peak.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
September 18, 1934: “Douglas McRae, senior ranger at Goat peak lookout station, left Saturday morning to take up his duties as fruit inspector at Pateros and Brewster. Mrs. McRae held down the post at the peak until relieved by Francis Luskin Monday. The McRaes say there have been white frosts and a couple of snow storms recently at the peak.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
June 10, 1935: “Douglas MacRae says that for the first time in the many years that he has been in charge of the Goat Peak lookout station, it was broken into, after being closed in October, presumably during the hunting season. The intruders left the room dirty and the door open, and this summer the building is in bad condition and infested with rats.
The station is still surrounded with snow, but it not so deep as it was last year at this time, though there are 20-foot drifts on the north side, at the approach to the peak. MacRae, who spent last winter in Spokane, expects soon to take up his old post there.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
June 14, 1935: “The first rangers to be sent to lookout stations in this district were: Douglas MacRae to Goat Peak and Junior Burge to north Twenty-mile. The former was packed up to the peak Monday by Bill Wehmeyer.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
September 13, 1935: “Douglas McRae, veteran ranger of Goat peak, came down from the lookout station Monday on his way to Brewster, where he will again serve as fruit inspector. Owing to the high temperatures and low humidity increasing the fire hazard, the station will be kept open for some time, with Dwight Corrier in charge.” (The Wenatchee Daily World)
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DESIGNATION - GOAT PEAK LOOKOUT TOWER
PID - TQ0439
STATE/COUNTY- WA/OKANOGAN
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - MC LEOD MOUNTAIN (1991)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1925
ON THE SUMMIT OF GOAT PEAK ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINTHROP,
AND ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF MAZAMA. IT IS REACHED BY ROAD FROM
WINTHROP, THENCE 12 MILES TO MAZAMA, AND THENCE FOLLOWING FOREST
SERVICE TRAIL AND TELEPHONE LINE UP THE RIDGE TO THE PEAK. THERE IS
A STANDARD REGION-6 U.S. FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT HOUSE WITH A
PEAKED CUPOLA ON THE SUMMIT OF THE PEAK. THE STATION WAS NOT
OCCUPIED.
STATION MARK--PEAK OF THE CUPOLA. NO OTHER STATION MARK WAS SET IN
1925 BUT THE FOREST SERVICE STATES IT INTENDS TO SET A COAST AND
GEODETIC SURVEY STANDARD BRONZE-DISK STATION MARK IN THE LEDGE ROCK
UNDER THE CENTER OF THE CUPOLA AND UNDER THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.
