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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana

Allen Peak

Kootenai NF lookout in Lincoln County, MT: an L-4 cab dated 1934, described by the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1940; listed gone, and no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed gone by firelookout.com and the Forest Fire Lookout Association; Forest Lookouts says removed; no source describes what remains

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
Trail
A trail listing describes a 1.5-mile trail to Allen Peak in the Kootenai National Forest, open on foot, by bicycle and by horse; not confirmed to reach the lookout site

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kootenai National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Lincoln County, Montana
Coordinates
47.94165, −115.40000
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-allen-peak

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 BuiltL-4 cab dated 1934 by firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  2. 1940 EventCoast and Geodetic Survey described the lookout house in 1940, placing it 11 miles NE of Trout Creek and 8 miles SSW of Raven Ranger StationSource: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  3. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Allen Peak lookout house stood on a bare east-west ridge along the boundary of the Kootenai and Cabinet national forests, in Lincoln County, Montana.1,2 It lay about 31 miles south-southeast of Libby.1

The Coast and Geodetic Survey described the lookout house in 1940, placing the site 11 miles northeast of Trout Creek and 8 miles south-southwest of Raven Ranger Station.2

Firelookout.com dates an L-4 cab to 1934.1 A federal survey record for the station has two entries under the same name. One carries the code for a surface mark reported destroyed; the other carries a different code, so the entries alone do not show what happened to the house.3

Firelookout.com lists the lookout as gone, and the Forest Lookouts page says it was removed.1,2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's state list agrees.4

No source we read describes what remains at the site today, or whether it is open to visitors.

A trail listing for Allen Peak gives its length as 1.5 miles, within the Kootenai National Forest, and says it can be reached on foot, by bicycle or by horse.5 The listing does not say whether the trail reaches the lookout site.

  1. Allen Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/allenpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Allen Peak - Forest Lookouts, Forest Lookouts (Rex's Fire Lookout Page), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/allen-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Datasheet retrieval for station SU0998, Allen Peak Lookout House, National Geodetic Survey, https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=SU0998 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  5. Best Hikes on Allen Peak, Gaia GPS, https://www.gaiagps.com/hike/trail/united-states/montana/kootenai-national-forest/allen-peak/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

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. firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page Gave us: links firelookout.com · No licence stated on the site; facts only (coordinates, elevation, built/destroyed years, design, agency). Photos mirrored with the site's stated credit. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  3. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: agency, ownership, 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, 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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