Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana
Burnt Peak
Kootenai NF lookout site in Lincoln County, Montana: a 1920s log cabin and a 1930 L-4 cab, marked gone. No source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Firelookout.com marks the site 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
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- Road to the top?
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Kootenai National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Lincoln County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48.35505, −116.00718
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-burnt-peak
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1930 EventFirelookout.com lists an L-4 cab for 1930; the page does not say how it relates to the log cabinSource: firelookout.com
- Date unknown BuiltFirelookout.com gives only the decade, 1920s, for a log cabin; no exact build year is givenSource: firelookout.com
- Date unknown EventFirelookout.com marks the site Gone; no date or cause givenSources: firelookout.com, firelookout.org
- TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. 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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
Burnt Peak is the site of a former lookout on the Kootenai National Forest, in Lincoln County, Montana, about nine miles southwest of Troy.1 Firelookout.com gives its elevation as 6,300 feet.1
The page lists a log cabin for the 1920s and an L-4 cab for 1930.1 It asks whether the log cabin is still there, as ruins.1
On July 16, 2021, NBC Montana reported the Burnt Peak Fire at 1,716 acres, roughly nine miles southwest of Troy.2 None of the sources checked links that fire to the lookout site.
Firelookout.com marks the site as gone.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists Burnt Peak among Lincoln County's lookout structures and sites, as a ground lookout that is gone, at 48.35505, -116.00718.3
No source describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the public can reach it.
- Burnt Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra), https://www.firelookout.com/mt/burntpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Burnt Peak Fire grows to 1,716 acres, NBC Montana, https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/burnt-peak-fire-grows-to-1716-acres (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)
- Burnt Peak Fire grows to 1,716 acres (NBC Montana) (opens another site)
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Burnt Peak on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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