Fire lookout · Lake County, Minnesota
Mount Weber
Lake County, MN: state tower #142, a 56-foot Aermotor ladder lookout built 1925, also called Greenwood Lake lookout; listed removed and gone; no source describes the site.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. FFLA lists it as gone; the Lake County list says it was removed
Visit & stay
Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.
Access
Access unknown
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- Road to the top?
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower56-foot Aermotor ladder tower, state tower #142The design: Aermotor
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1925
- Height
- 56 ft (17.1 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Minnesota Forest Service (owner entry Mn MFS); may have been given over to the U.S. Forest Service
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Lake County, Minnesota
- Coordinates
- 47.48443, −91.65646
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mn-mount-weber
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1925 BuiltErected as tower #142, a 56-foot Aermotor ladder towerSources: upload.wikimedia.org, upload.wikimedia.org
- 1934 EventSurvey notes describe the Mount Weber station as under a fire lookout towerSource: upload.wikimedia.org
- TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.
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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
Mount Weber, also called the Greenwood Lake lookout, was a fire tower in Lake County, Minnesota.1
It was tower number 142, a 56-foot Aermotor ladder tower erected in 1925.1,2 The county list gives the owner as Mn MFS, the Minnesota Forest Service, which is now the Department of Natural Resources' forestry division.1,3 Survey notes from 1934 describe the Mount Weber station as sitting under a fire lookout tower.1
The alternate name points to Greenwood Lake, and Wikipedia traces that lake's name to George C. Greenwood, a pioneer merchant.4
The county list says the tower was removed and that it may have passed to the U.S. Forest Service.1,2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists it as gone.5
We found no source that describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the public can visit it.
- Lake County Fire Lookout Towers, Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Lake_County_Towers.pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Minnesota Fire Lookout Towers, A to Z list, Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/A-Z_List-Towers.pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Minnesota Fire Lookout Towers, St. Louis County, Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/St_Louis_County_Towers.pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Greenwood Lake (Lake County, Minnesota), Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Lake_(Lake_County,_Minnesota) (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Minnesota Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mn/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
Sources
- Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists (opens another site) 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
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- Lake County Fire Lookout Towers (Wikimedia Commons) (opens another site)
- Minnesota Fire Lookout Towers, A to Z list (Wikimedia Commons) (opens another site)
- Minnesota Fire Lookout Towers, St. Louis County (Wikimedia Commons) (opens another site)
- Greenwood Lake (Lake County, Minnesota) (Wikipedia) (opens another site)
- FFLA Minnesota lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
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