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Fire lookout · Judith Basin County, Montana

Anderson Peak

Lewis & Clark NF 50-foot pole L-4 tower dated to 1935; sources disagree on whether it was destroyed in 1968 or removed, and none describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Firelookout.com says destroyed in 1968; a Forest Lookouts page says 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
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower50-foot pole tower, type L-4The design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1935
Height
50 ft (15.2 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lewis & Clark National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Judith Basin County, Montana
Coordinates
47.06590, −110.60412
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-anderson-peak

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1935 BuiltDated 1935 by firelookout.com: 50-foot pole L-4 towerSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1935 and 1968
  3. 1968 DestroyedFirelookout.com says destroyed in 1968; the Forest Lookouts page says removed and gives no dateSource: firelookout.com
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Anderson Peak is a lookout site in Judith Basin County, about nine miles north-northeast of Neihart, at an elevation of 7,687 feet.1 The Lewis & Clark National Forest is listed as its agency, and a Forest Lookouts page gives its location code as 15N-9E-17.1,2

Firelookout.com describes a 50-foot pole tower of the type it calls L-4, dated to 1935.1

The sources disagree about how the tower ended.1,2 Firelookout.com says it was destroyed in 1968.1 A Forest Lookouts page lists it as removed.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list marks it gone and lists its coordinates as 47.06590 north and 110.60412 west.3

No source describes what, if anything, remains on the peak today, and none says whether the public can reach it.

  1. Anderson Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/andersonpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Anderson Peak - FOREST LOOKOUTS, Forest Lookouts, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/anderson-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (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, 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

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