Fire Lookout Tower on Mount Hallowell
In 1995 the Friends of Caren teamed up with the Sunshine Coast Heritage Society in a project to restore the old fire lookout tower on Mount Hallowell in the centre of the proposed Caren Range park. The Hallowell tower is beliecved to be the last of the fire lookouts left standing on the B.C. coast—a reminder of forest fire surveilance activities made obsolete by modern technology.
The last fire lookout tower remaining on the B.C. coast, located on the summit of Mt.Hallowell in the Caren Range. The hike to the tower culminates in magnificent views. Photo credit: Dr.John Field.
John Dafoe, who heads up the project for the Friends of Caren, enthuses, "More mountains can be seen from the Hallowell Tower than from anywhere else I know. It is a tremendous landscape! You have panoramic views of Vancouver Island, the Coast Range, the Tetrahedron, Tantalus Range, the Earle Range, Tzoonie Mountain, and all the way up Jervis Inlet!” Volunteers expect to complete the restoration work by the summer of 1996.
