Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS
NRHP reference No.
01001038[1]
Added to NRHP
September 23, 2001
The Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station is located at the summit of the mountain of that name in the Town of Hardenburgh, New York, United States. It comprises a steel frame fire lookout tower, the observer's cabin and privy and the jeep road to the complex.
Balsam Lake Mountain, the westernmost of the Catskill High Peaks, was the site of the first fire lookout tower in New York in 1887, when a nearby sportsmen's club built it to protect their lands below the mountain.[2][3] It was later taken over by the state, which built several towers culminating in the current one. The tower was staffed until 1988.
After being closed for much of the 1990s, the tower was proposed for demolition as one of five remaining on state-owned Forest Preserve land in the Catskill Park. Hikers and local residents rallied to save it, and after the state's Department of Environmental Conservation changed its mind, it was restored and reopened. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001,[1] the highest-elevation property in Ulster County to be listed.[note 1]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ abWes Haynes (May 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2010-02-20. See also: "Accompanying two photos". Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
^Podskosch, Martin (2000). Fire Towers of the Catskills: Their History and Lore. Fleischmanns, New York: Purple Mountain Press. p. 35. ISBN 1-930098-10-3.
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