Azure Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station

Fire lookout tower

A fire lookout tower, fire tower or lookout tower, provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout" whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness...

 located on Azure Mountain

Azure Mountain

Azure Mountain is a mountain near Blue Mountain Road in the Town of Waverly, Franklin County, New York, in the Adirondack Park in the US. It is the site of a 35-foot, steel fire tower built in 1918 that was restored in 2002. The Azure Mountain Fire Observation Station was listed on the National...

 at Waverly

Waverly, New York

Waverly is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York:*Waverly, Tioga County, New York, a village in New York's Southern Tier*Waverly, Franklin County, New York, a town in Northern New York...

 in Franklin County, New York

Franklin County, New York

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,599. It is named in honor of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin...

. The station and contributing resources include a 40 feet (12.2 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1918, a jeep trail now used as a hiking trail, which extends from the base of the mountain to two former observers' cabins, and a foot trail from the cabins to the summit. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.