Sunset at Park Butte Lookout
The Park Butte Lookout is located on the south side of Mount Baker, in the Mt. Baker, Snoqualmie National Fores, in the NW corner of Washington State. The lookout was “retired” from use as a fire lookout many years ago and was then adopted by the Skagit Alpine Club, who maintain the lookout for public use.
The Park Butte Lookout is a decommissioned fire lookout from decades past. Perched on a precipice along a ridge on the south side of Mount Baker the lookout commands a wide view of the North Cascades.
Now maintained by the Skagit Alpine Club the lookout is open to the public and if you wish, you can spend th night there.
Which is what I did a few days ago, I hiked up, hoping to get images of the night sky and Milky Way.
But, alas, it was not to be, after sunset the clouds rolled in.
North Western Images - photos by Andy Porter 