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Stockholm Mountain

Stockholm, Aroostook County, ME: 1923 Aermotor LS-40 fire tower, last used 1967, standing in a town trail area; NRHP date conflicts with its own text.

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Open to the public. Recreation area with trails in Stockholm; the trail listing says the tower may be climbed; no closure notice in the pages read

Can you climb it?
Yes
Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
The Tower Trail is a 5-mile loop that goes up to the tower; the listing says the tower may be climbed for 360-degree views
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Standing
Type
Cab on a towerAermotor Company LS-40 model, built on windmill frames of a type widely used by forest servicesThe design: Aermotor LS-40
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1923
Height
47 ft (14.3 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Maine Forest Service (historical)
Land
Unknown
Location
Aroostook County, Maine
Coordinates
47.04865, −68.12957
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-me-stockholm-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1920 EventMaine Memory gives 1920 as the build year; conflicts with the state's 1923 dateSource: mainememory.net
  2. 1923 BuiltBuilt as part of Maine Forest Service efforts to protect timber land; the 1923 Maine Forestry Service map is centered on the towerSources: maine.gov, archive.org
  3. No record between 1923 and 1967
  4. 1967 Last staffedLast use as a fire observation tower, per the state's period of significanceSource: maine.gov
  5. No record between 1967 and 2025
  6. 2025 Listed on the National Register of Historic PlacesState page gives a date listed of December 29, 2025, but its text says the tower is eligible for listingSource: maine.gov
  7. TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.

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.

The Stockholm Mountain fire tower stands in the town of Stockholm, in Aroostook County, Maine.1,2 The state's historic preservation office says the Maine Forest Service built it in 1923 to safeguard economically important timber and the resources local mills relied on.1 A Maine Memory page gives 1920 as the build year, so the sources disagree.3 A 1923 Maine Forestry Service map is centered on the tower.4

The state describes the tower as a 47-foot Aermotor LS-40 model, built on windmill frames of a type that forest services used widely.1 A visitor listing for the trails gives the height as 55 feet.5 We could not settle which figure is right.

We found no notable fire tied to this tower in the sources we read. The state's page ends the tower's period of significance in 1967, the year it last served as a lookout.1 The page does not name a last watchman.

The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Maine list shows the tower as standing, with no note that its cab is gone.2 The state's page gives a listing date of December 29, 2025 for the National Register, but its text says the tower is eligible for listing.1 Maine Preservation has put the tower on its Most Endangered list, and the town wants to preserve it for public walks.3

Today the tower sits within Stockholm Landing and Trails, a recreation area.5 The Tower Trail, which runs 5 miles in a loop, goes up to the tower, and the listing says visitors can climb it for 360-degree views.5 We found no closure notice. Check with the town before you go, since the state page and the trail listing disagree on height, and Maine Memory gives a different build year.

  1. Stockholm Mountain Fire Tower, Maine Historic Preservation Commission, https://www.maine.gov/mhpc/index.php/programs/national-register-of-historic-places/recent-listings/stockholm-mountain-fire-tower (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Maine Fire Towers, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/me/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers, Maine Memory Network, https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/193/page/452/display (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Stockholm Mt. 1923, Maine Forestry Service, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/statedocs_maine_arc_firetower-94 (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  5. Stockholm Landing and Trails, Visit Aroostook, https://www.visitaroostook.com/listing/stockholm-landing-and-trails (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, access, visiting details, 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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