Fire lookout · Cass County, Minnesota
Remer
Second Remer lookout in Cass County, MN: a 100-ft Aermotor stairway tower erected in 1938. Listed as gone; no source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed as gone; no source we read describes what remains at the site.
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 tower100-foot Aermotor stairway towerThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1938
- Height
- 100 ft (30.5 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- U.S. Forest Service
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Cass County, Minnesota
- Coordinates
- 47.03031, −94.03339
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mn-remer
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1938 BuiltSecond Remer lookout erected; 100-foot Aermotor stairway towerSources: upload.wikimedia.org, 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.
Remer had two fire lookouts in the same area, about two miles apart, southwest of town off Highway 200.1 The first, likely an 81-foot ladder tower, was probably relocated to the Blueberry site once the second went up.1 The second went up in 1938 as a 100-foot Aermotor stairway tower.1,2
The Remer Ranger District, set up as an administrative unit in 1935, was headquartered at a station in town.3 After the Chippewa National Forest grew southward, this tower became a primary U.S. Forest Service lookout, and the Lima lookout to its southeast was eliminated.1
The station typically had three full-time employees.3 A former assistant ranger who worked there from 1959 to 1961 recalled that two "tower men" staffed the lookouts in the warmer months.3 When fire danger ran high, lookouts covered two towers and kept up regular radio contact with the district office.3
The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Minnesota list marks this tower as gone, and it marks the first Remer lookout as gone too.4
No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the ground is open to visitors.
- Cass County Minnesota Fire Lookout Towers, Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Cass_County_Towers.pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Minnesota fire towers A-Z list, Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/A-Z_List-Towers.pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, United States Forest Service, Remer District Ranger Station, mn.gov, https://mn.gov/admin/assets/SRB_USFS%2C%20Remer%20District%20Ranger%20Station_tcm36-583894.pdf (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
- Cass County Minnesota Fire Lookout Towers (PDF) (Wikimedia Commons) (opens another site)
- Minnesota fire towers A-Z list (PDF) (Wikimedia Commons) (opens another site)
- National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: United States Forest Service, Remer District Ranger Station (mn.gov) (opens another site)
- FFLA Minnesota lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
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