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Fire lookout · Siskiyou County, California

Lakeview Point Lookout Site

Also known as Lakeview

Klamath NF site, Siskiyou County: register gives a 1937 build but says the tower was never built; 1939 tent lookout announced; abandoned 1976, land sold.

Private land

No public access. Please do not trespass; view it only from public land. Forest Service sold the land in 1976; sources do not say whether visitors may enter

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned by the Forest Service in 1976 and the land sold; a gazebo stands on the site and the lookout platform remains are nearby

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

Private land. See the warning at the top of this page.

Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabRegion 5 Plan BC-301 cabin on a 20 ft timber tower per a 1986 survey; never builtThe design: BC-301
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1937
Height
Unknown
Elevation
3,774 ft (1,150 m)
Agency
US Forest Service - Klamath National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Siskiyou County, California
Coordinates
41.95369, −122.36266
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-ca-lakeview-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1937 Built'Built' field on FFLOS detail pageSource: FFLOS register entry
  2. 1937 EventRegister Built field gives 1937; the same entry says the tower described in a 1986 survey was never builtSource: firetower.org
  3. 1939 EventMay 13, 1939 announcement of a temporary tent lookout with radio communication at Lakeview Point, west of the Copco roadSource: californialookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1939 and 1954
  5. 1954 BuiltSmall observation-only ground cabin reported built; known from the only existing photoSource: firetower.org
  6. No record between 1954 and 1976
  7. 1976 AbandonedForest Service abandoned the lookout site and sold the landSource: firetower.org
  8. No record between 1976 and 2020
  9. 2020 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: April 17, 2020Source: FFLOS register entry
  10. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Lakeview Point sits at 3,774 feet in Siskiyou County, on land the Klamath National Forest administered.1 The register gives 1937 as the build year, but the same entry says the tower described in a 1986 survey was never built.1

A Klamath National Forest chronology, quoted on a lookout history site, records a May 13, 1939 announcement that a temporary lookout would be installed at Lakeview Point, west of the Copco road.2 The plan was to house it in a tent with radio contact.2

The register's only photo shows a small observation-only ground cabin that was reportedly built in 1954.1

The register says the Forest Service gave up the site in 1976 and sold the land.1

According to the register, a small gazebo built by the landowner stands at the site, and the lookout platform's remains lie nearby.1 Neither source says whether visitors may enter.1,2

  1. Lakeview Point Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/ca/lakeview-point-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Lakeview Point - Forest Lookouts, California Forest Lookouts, https://californialookouts.weebly.com/lakeview-point.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Lakeview Point Lookout - Circa 1954
Lakeview Point Lookout - Circa 1954 (1954)Photo: Goosenest Ranger District, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, ownership, dates, photos, links Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  2. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: type, status, register numbers, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: links Ron Kemnow's Forest Lookouts sites (westlookouts, californialookouts, idaholookouts, montanalookouts, oregonlookouts and washingtonlookouts .weebly.com) · No licence stated; facts only (county, land manager, status word, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, township-range-section, height and design hints, links). The site's own newspaper quotes, citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  4. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, agency, access, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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