ELK MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT
75' steel tower. Standing. Living quarters cabin destroyed in a 2002 forest fire.
Black Hills National Forest
20 miles west of Custer
Custer County, South Dakota
Elevation 5669'

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Elk Mtn. in 1941 Elk Mtn. in 2011
Photos courtesy the National Archives and Records Administration and Ron Kemnow