
Lemmon Rock Lookout House
Posted by:
rambles
N 32° 26.096 W 110° 47.362
12S E 519800 N 3588665
Quick Description: Lemmon Rock Lookout House was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corp.
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 8/24/2008 9:23:41 PM
Waymark Code: WM4H7M
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Long Description:This is a 14X14 house perched on the edge of Lemmon Rock. It has
windows on three sides and dozens of lightning rods. It's staffed
from May through September on a 24/7 basis. You can reach it from
the parking lot on the summit of Mt Lemmon by following the steep
Lemmon Rock trail
("http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/forest/recreation/trails/lemmon_rk.shtml."
target="_blank">visit link) From Lemmon Rock you can look
southeast over the Catalinas with views of Sabino Canyon and Pusch
Ridge and much of southeastern Arizona. It is on the National
Register of Historic Places.
More information is on the NPS website
("http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/ccc/ccc/chap15.htm"
target="_blank">visit link) and an interesting writeup about
it's current use is at the Tucson Weekly website
("http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=98001."
target="_blank">visit link)