Outback Scenic Byway
Fremont Point, OR

Fremont Point is a historic 90-foot fire watch tower (lookout) and rental cabin built in the early 1930s. This point is named after explorer John C. Fremont who came upon the ridge in 1843 and wrote of the experience:

Rising rapidly ahead to this spot we found ourselves on the verge of a vertical and rocky wall of the mountain. At our feet -- more than a thousand feet below -- we looked into a grass prairie country, in which a beautiful lake, some twenty miles in length, was spread along the foot of the mountain ... shivering on snow three feet deep and stiffening in a cold north wind, we exclaimed at once that the names of summer lake and winter ridge should be applied to these proximate places of such sudden and violent contrast.