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Fire lookout · Ravalli County, Montana

Antrim Point

Ravalli County lookout point used from 1937; its cab moved to Lookout Mountain in 1974, where it stands, and the original point is listed as gone.

Moved: The structure was moved. The map shows where it stands now; the timeline says where it came from. The cab was moved to Lookout Mountain in 1974; the original point is listed as gone

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
Staffing
Not staffed (as of 1973)

Facts

Status
Moved
Type
Two-story buildingR-6 flat cab (an 8-foot cab replaced an L-4 cab in 1968)The designs: L-4, R-6
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1937
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Bitterroot National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Ravalli County, Montana
Coordinates
46.61764, −114.03038
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-antrim-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1937 Condition assessmentForest Service survey station set under the tower center; recovered by USGS in 1957Source: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1937 BuiltSite established as a lookout point; firelookout.com gives 1939 (see resolved conflicts)Source: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1939 EventAn L-4 cab was relocated to the point from Dutch HillSource: firelookout.com
  4. 1943 StaffedMr. and Mrs. Merrill Edmunds listed as lookoutsSource: firelookout.com
  5. 1946 StaffedMr. and Mrs. Joe Ayres took the lookout station for the season (Ravalli Republic item)Source: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  6. No record between 1946 and 1968
  7. 1968 Replaced by a new structureAn 8-foot R-6 flat cab replaced the L-4 cabSource: firelookout.com
  8. 1969 StaffedAnn Casselman listed as lookout; firelookout.com lists her through 1971Source: firelookout.com
  9. 1973 EventLookout duties moved to Lookout Mountain (Forest Lookouts)Source: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  10. 1974 MovedThe cab was moved to Lookout Mountain; NHLR and firelookout.com date the move to 1974Sources: nhlr.org, firelookout.com
  11. TodayMovedThe structure was moved. The map shows where it stands now; the timeline says where it came from. 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.

Antrim Point was a cleared top near the Bitterroot River, about eight miles north of Stevensville in the Bitterroot National Forest.1,2 A Forest Service survey station was set there in 1937, and the Forest Lookouts page dates the lookout site to the same year.2 The firelookout.com listing gives 1939 instead, when an L-4 cab was relocated there from Dutch Hill.1

The survey brass tablet sat in a concrete post under the center of the lookout tower, and the U.S. Geological Survey recovered it in 1957.2 An eight-foot R-6 flat cab replaced the L-4 in 1968.1

The named lookouts include Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Edmunds in 1943, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ayres in 1946, and Ann Casselman from 1969 to 1971.1,2

The Forest Lookouts page says the lookout duties moved to Lookout Mountain in 1973.2 The National Historic Lookout Register and firelookout.com date the cab's move to 1974, five years after it was built at Antrim Point.3,4 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's list still marks Antrim Point as gone.5

The cab now stands on Lookout Mountain, about 12 miles south of the West Fork ranger station, and the lookout there gets regular staff in fire season.1,3,4

We found no source that describes what remains at the original point today, or whether the 1937 survey tablet survives.

  1. Antrim Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/antrimpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Antrim Point, Forest Lookouts (Ron Kemnow), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/antrim-point.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Lookout Mountain Lookout, National Historic Lookout Register, http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/mt/lookout-mountain-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Lookout Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://firelookout.com/mt/lookoutmtnb.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  5. 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, status, agency, staffing, 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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