This picture was taken Sep 2020 by a ham radio friend of many here in Glenwood Springs; Bob Cutter, KIØG (SK). Bob was an aficionado of Morse code and collector of telegraph keys, a fixed wing pilot, and longtime local attorney.

The phone company designation of this site may be Glenwood Relay, however the common name is the BLM Lookout Mountain communications site. This is one of many similar microwave facilities constructed by Mountain Bell in the 1970s, each with a signature deep snow access door as shown. As of 2025 this tower has two main east/west paths with diversity antennas; Castle Peak Junction and Sunlight Peak. It also serves two spur paths; Glenwood Passive to the north and Aspen Passive to the south. It's my understanding the old Nortel 3-DS3 microwave system is maintained for undisclosed federal circuits and backup 911 traffic in event of fiber failure.

The tail letters of the Bell 407 denote the aircraft owner. CenturyLink (now Lumen) flies to their Colorado microwave sites year round, test equipment is kept at each site. Even as recent as the year of this posting, 2025, I have seen the green helicopter making its routine site visits. Microwave still in service long after the first fiber was installed adjacent to the railroad in the 1990s.