Caribou Mountain Fire Tower

Length: 115 m trail from parking lot to tower; 30 m vertical climb.
Difficulty: Moderate. If you can climb stairs, you can climb the tower!
Access: 15-minute drive to tower parking lot. (You can also access the White Bear Forest trails from here.)
Time commitment: 1 hour.

A 30-metre-high, fully restored fire tower with stairs all the way to the top! Well, almost all the way to the top - a ladder brings you the last few feet into the cupola, and into the world of forest rangers. From their perch on Caribou Mountain, rangers kept watch over 1000 square kilometres of forest, and could spot smoke up to 24 kilometres away.