We started this series in May of last year, and the premise hasn’t moved since. Jim and I have spent our entire adult lives on America’s public lands, first with cameras and then with this newsletter and wholehearted public lands advocacy, and the places that actually stick with us were almost never the ones on the postcard rack at the visitor center.
They’re the forest roads that dead-end somewhere unreasonable. The trailheads with four cars in the lot in the middle of August. The lookouts and guard stations and unmarked gravel pullouts that nobody has built a reservation app around yet, mostly because nobody has gotten around to noticing them.
If you’re new, here’s Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3.
Volume 5 starts in a one-room tower on top of a mountain, where we spent one of the best nights either of us has ever had on public land under a clear fall sky, nobody else for miles, and the Milky Way from one horizon to the other.
Where it is, what it costs, how to get up there, when to book, and what the last stretch of road will do to the wrong vehicle are all below.
Without further ado, here’s Volume 5.
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