Fire lookout · Kanabec County, Minnesota
Pomroy Lookout Tower
Kanabec County, MN tower near Pomroy Lake: 95-ft Aermotor stairway tower dated 1963 by the Minnesota Forest Service; still standing, with decayed stair treads reported.
- Standing
- Access unknown
- Verified
Visit & stay
Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.
Access
Access unknown
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Can you climb it?
- Unknown
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Trail
- Visit account describes a muddy road leading to the tower and decayed stair treads; no visit rules or current owner found
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower95-foot Aermotor stairway tower with square cabThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1963
- Height
- 95 ft (29.0 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Mn MFS (Minnesota Forest Service, now the DNR forestry division), per the Kanabec County survey
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Kanabec County, Minnesota
- Coordinates
- 45.99488, −93.18701
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mn-pomroy
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History
Then and now
- 1963 BuiltCounty survey gives 1963 as the date for the 95-foot Mn MFS stairway tower near Pomroy LakeSource: upload.wikimedia.org
- 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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The Pomroy Lookout Tower stands near Pomroy Lake in Kanabec County, Minnesota.1 The lake and the township both carry the name of John Pomroy, an early lumberman whose logging camp stood on the shore.2
A county survey of the towers lists the owner as Mn MFS, which it explains as the Minnesota Forest Service, now the forestry division of the state Department of Natural Resources.1 The same survey gives 1963 as the date and describes a 95-foot stairway tower of Aermotor design with a square cab.1 It also says the tower is under the Moose Lake Forestry Station.1 The sources we read name no one who staffed the tower and no fire it watched.
The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the tower as standing.3 A visitor's account on kjackson.us says the tower still stands, that the stair treads show decay, and that the road in is a sea of mud.2
We found no public access rules and no current owner information. Because the visit account reports decaying stair treads, do not climb the tower, and ask the managing station before you visit.
- Kanabec County Fire Lookout Towers, Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Kanabec_County_Towers.pdf (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Pomroy, Historical Minnesota Fire Towers, kjackson.us, https://kjackson.us/towers/Pomroy.php (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Minnesota Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mn/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
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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
- Wikidata -- US fire lookout towers (Q748998 and subclasses) (opens another site) Gave us: photos, links Wikidata · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata). Images keep their own Commons licence/credit. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- Kanabec County Fire Lookout Towers (Wikimedia Commons) (opens another site)
- Pomroy (Historical Minnesota Fire Towers (kjackson.us)) (opens another site)
- FFLA Minnesota lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Wikidata item Q107480388 (opens another site)
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