West Virginia Has the Only Reservable Fire Tower East of the Mississippi
For more than 50 years, fire lookouts took up residence high above the trees, in a steel-and-wooden structure called the Thorny Mountain Fire Tower. Every…
Camille von Kaenel
Camille von Kaenel was born in Switzerland, grown in California and raised by mountains. She is a journalist interested in the relationships between the environment and humans and previously covered climate change policy in Washington, D.C. Find her most happy reading in a hammock near a body of water after a full day of hiking and climbing.
