The fire tower is a 30 foot LS 45 Aermotor tower, pretty typical for NY State. It's one of the short little towers, like also seen on Rondaxe Mountain in Eagle Bay.
Thursday August 12, 2010 — Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake) — Owls Head Firetower 🗺
This is looking south from the summit towards Forked Lake Campground and possibly Racquette Lake. The mountain in the distance is Wakely Mountain, one of the other fire towers originally used to pin-point fires in the Adirondacks (it takes two towers to locate a fire through triangulation).
Thursday August 12, 2010 — Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake) — Owls Head Firetower 🗺
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Forked Lake is home to both a developed reservation and fee campground (green and white) and a handful of primative free campsites (yellow and black) along the lake. There also is a couple of lean tos along the lake.
