
— — a room above the trees, still watching for smoke.
“The last staffed fire lookout in Colorado. A small cabin set on a granite outcrop at 9,748 feet, reached by a mile and a half through ponderosa and then 143 stairs bolted to the rock. Views on a clear day run to Pikes Peak in the south, to the plains and Kansas in the east, and west to the Tarryalls and the Kenoshas. The station has been in service since 1912. The Rampart Range Road closes around December and opens again in April. Listed on the National Register in 1991.

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Devil's Head Lookout sits at 9,748 feet on a granite pinnacle at the south end of the Rampart Range in Pike National Forest, Douglas County, Colorado. The trail (#611) climbs 865 feet over 1.4 miles from the trailhead off Rampart Range Road, with a final climb of 143 stairs bolted into the rock to reach the cabin. The nearest town is Sedalia, about ten miles east on State Highway 67. The South Platte Ranger District manages access; the road is open from roughly April through November. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
On a clear day the view from the cabin reaches roughly a hundred miles in every direction. Pikes Peak lifts above the southern horizon. The Tarryall, Kenosha, and Platte River ranges stand red and bare to the west. Denver and the eastern plains run out toward Kansas. The cabin itself sits on a pinnacle of Pikes Peak granite, the same coarse pink granite that forms the Garden of the Gods and the summit blocks of Pikes Peak. The Rampart Range is the eastern rampart of the Front Range, the buffer between the high country and the city below.
The first lookout went up on the summit in 1912, with the current cabin built in the summer of 1951 by the Forest Service. It is the last staffed fire lookout still operating along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The tower is open with a watchstander from roughly mid-June through October, the dry months of the fire season. When the road closes around December 1 the cabin sits empty above the snow line until April. The first watchstanders worked from a small shed with a fire-finder table and a telephone, anchored to the rock.