Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana
Bunker Hill
Kootenai NF tower site in Lincoln County, Montana; a 1930s pole L-4 tower, gone by both firelookout.com and the FFLA list. No source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Firelookout.com and the FFLA list both mark it gone; no removal date is given
Visit & stay
Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.
Access
Access unknown
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a towerpole L-4 towerThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Kootenai National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Lincoln County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48.80490, −115.50523
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-bunker-hill
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
No dated events recorded yet: nobody has recorded when this lookout was built or when it came down.
- Date unknown BuiltFirelookout.com gives only the decade, 1930s, for a pole L-4 tower; no exact build year is givenSource: firelookout.com
- Date unknown EventBoth sources mark the tower gone; no date or cause givenSources: firelookout.com, firelookout.org
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.
Bunker Hill is a former fire tower on the Kootenai National Forest, in Lincoln County, Montana, about 10 miles east-southeast of Yaak.1 Firelookout.com gives its elevation as 6,516 feet.1
The page gives only the decade, the 1930s, for a pole L-4 tower at the south end, below the summit.1 Firelookout.com marks the tower as gone.1
The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists Bunker Hill among Lincoln County's lookout structures and sites. Its list calls the type a tower and the status gone, with the site at 48.8049, -115.50523.2 Both pages describe the tower as gone, so the two sources agree on its status.1,2
No source describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the public can reach it.
- Bunker Hill Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra), https://www.firelookout.com/mt/bunkerhill.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana Lookouts (by Region), Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/mt-rg/ (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
- firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page (opens another site) 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
- 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- Montana Lookouts (by Region) (Forest Fire Lookout Association) (opens another site)
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Bunker Hill on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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