Spruce Mountain Ranger Station

We hiked up a bit of Spruce Mountain the other day so that we could picnic and then go to the Ranger station and look out at the 360 degree views. I posted about this place when I went there last year too....you can click HERE if you want to read that post.We had to hike up these narrow and steep stairs to get to the watch tower....Here is what the tower looks like.....Mom and the Ranger lady......we saw her there last year tooMapping tools.....Mom hiking down the mountain....Beautiful view....
It was really fun! It is cool to learn about how the Ranger looks for fires and what types of information that she has to report pertaining to the weather, etc. We even got a Smokey the Bear badge.....ha!