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Stillwater Mountain Fire Observation Station (aka Stillwater Fire Tower), manufactured of steel by Aermotor and erected in 1919, overlooks Stillwater Reservoir. It is located in the west-central Adirondack Park, Town of Webb, Herkimer County, NY. It closed in 1988, and reopened in 2016 after restoration by volunteers: Friends of Stillwater Fire Tower and funded by NYS DEC. The 56 foot tower replaced a 1912 log fire tower built on the site of an 1882 signal tower which became a Primary Triangulation Station in Verplanck Colvin's NYS Adirondack Survey. A one mile wooded trail from a remote unpaved road rises 564 feet to the summit's 2264 foot elevation. Vistas of the Adirondack High Peaks in the Hudson River watershed up to sixty-six miles away, and wind turbines powered by winds from Lake Ontario on the Tug Hill Plateau, surpass other fire towers on higher Adirondack mountains.