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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana

Boulder Mountain

Crow's nest and log cabin in 1921, pole L-4 tower in 1933, abandoned 1958 and gone; a log cabin ruin a quarter mile east is the only remnant described.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned 1958 and gone per firelookout.com; the log cabin a quarter mile east is described as ruins, undated.

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone sources disagree
Type
Cab on a towerCrow's nest and log cabin (1921); pole L-4 tower (1933)The design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1921
Height
Unknown
Elevation
7,058 ft (2,151 m)
Agency
Kootenai National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Lincoln County, Montana
Coordinates
48.82683, −115.45420
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-boulder-mountain

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History

Then and now

  1. 1921 BuiltCrow's nest and a log cabin a quarter mile east, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  2. 1933 BuiltPole L-4 tower, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  3. No record between 1933 and 1958
  4. 1958 AbandonedAbandoned in 1958 per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  5. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Boulder Mountain is a former lookout site in the Kootenai National Forest, about twelve miles east of Yaak in Lincoln County, Montana.1 Firelookout.com gives its elevation as 7,058 feet.1 The Montana Lookouts county list places it under the same forest.2

Firelookout.com says a crow's nest and a log cabin a quarter mile east went up in 1921.1 A pole L-4 tower followed in 1933.1

The lookout was abandoned in 1958 and is now gone.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association list also shows the tower as gone.3

The one remnant the sources describe is the log cabin. Firelookout.com says it is still there, in ruins, a quarter mile east of the lookout.1 The note sits under the 1921 entry, but the page gives no date for when the cabin was seen in ruins. No source describes the tower site itself today or whether the public may visit, so ask the Kootenai National Forest before going.1

  1. Boulder Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, http://www.firelookout.com/mt/bouldermtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lincoln County - Forest Lookouts, montanalookouts.weebly.com, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/lincoln-county.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts (by County), Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/mt-co/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on whether it still stands.

    • FFLA: Gone
    • firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page: Standing

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: elevation, agency, ownership, 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. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, 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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