Mount Carmel Lookout - AWS Site
US 1865, CA 60
Mount Carmel Lookout - AWS Site - 1943

Mount Carmel Lookout - AWS Site - 1943 - courtesy of Mark Swift Collection

Lookout Details

Registry Numbers US 1865, CA 60 (view other lookout sites in United States, California)
Date Registered December 20, 2019
Nominated by Brad Eells
Location Los Padres National Forest
Monterey County, California
Coordinates N 36° 23.148' W 121° 47.299' (view using Google Maps)
N 36° 23' 09" W 121° 47' 18"
N 36.385797° W 121.788309°
Elevation 4,428 ft (1,350 m)
Built 1942
Removed 1954 - Wildfire
Administered by US Forest Service - Los Padres National Forest
Cooperators United States Army Ground Observer Corps

Description

Mount Carmel was a short lived Aircraft Warning Service post constructed in 1943. The building was the standard AWS ground cabin and observers cupola design.

The post was deactivated sometime in 1944 or 45.

The structure was destroyed in the 1954 Devils Peak Fire.

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Photos

Photo courtesy of "Lookouts of the Los Padres Forest" By Irma Oksen Reaves - 1988

Photo courtesy of "Lookouts of the Los Padres Forest" By Irma Oksen Reaves - 1988

In snow

In snow - courtesy of USFS - Craig R. Carey Collection