Barfoot Lookout Complex
Destroyed by fire
Buena Vista Peak, Portal, Arizona
Photo
By dedhed1950 - Flickr: DSCF0508, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32013378
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Coordinates:
+31.91659, -109.2739031°54'60" N, 109°16'26" W
Quadrangle map:Rustler Park
Description
Constructed by the CCC in 1935, Barfoot Lookout on the Coronado National Forest in Arizona was active for more than 65 years. It was a 14’x 14’ L-4 ground house with a roof-catch cistern once common in the dry Southwestern forests.
This lookout was destroyed in the Horseshoe II fire in June 2011.[5] Only the foundation remains.
National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 1988
- Reference number
- 87002463
- Areas of significance
- Conservation; Politics/Government; Architecture
- Level of significance
- National
- Evaluation criteria
- A - Event; C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic functions
- Institutional housing; Secondary structure
- Current functions
- Institutional housing; Secondary structure
- Period of significance
- 1925-1949
- Significant year
- 1935
- Number of properties
- Contributing buildings: 3
Contributing structures: 2
Update Log
- June 14, 2018: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Landmark burned in 2011.
- June 14, 2018: New photo from Bill Eichelberger