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Fire lookout · Flathead County, Montana

Bunker Point

Flathead NF ground lookout in Flathead County, Montana; gone. Firelookout.com lists an L-4 cab for 1939, abandoned 1948; Forest Lookouts says removed, no date.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Forest Lookouts says removed, no date given; firelookout.com says gone

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
Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
Unknown
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Flathead National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Flathead County, Montana
Coordinates
47.82535, −113.49872
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-bunker-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1939 EventFirelookout.com lists an L-4 cab for 1939; the page does not say the cab was built that yearSource: firelookout.com
  2. 1948 AbandonedFirelookout.com says the cab was abandoned in 1948Source: firelookout.com
  3. Date unknown RemovedThe Forest Lookouts page says the site was removed; no date givenSource: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

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.

Bunker Point was a ground lookout on the Flathead National Forest, in Flathead County, Montana.1,2,3 Firelookout.com lists an L-4 cab for 1939 and says the cab was abandoned in 1948.1 The Forest Lookouts Montana page gives the land description as 24N-15W-22.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association places the site at 47.82535, -113.49872.3

The Forest Lookouts page marks the site as removed, but gives no date.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists it as a ground lookout that is gone.3

No source describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the public can reach it.

  1. Bunker Point Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/bunkerpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Bunker Point, Forest Lookouts (montanalookouts.weebly.com), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/bunker-point.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org), 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, 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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