Fire lookout · Mineral County, Montana
Cameron Peak
Mineral County, MT lookout on the Lolo National Forest: an L-4 tower built in 1936 and destroyed in 1962 per one source; no source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. firelookout.com says destroyed in 1962; Forest Lookouts says Removed and the FFLA county list says Tower Gone
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
- Type unknownL-4 towerThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1936
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Lolo National Forest
- Land
- Federal land
- Location
- Mineral County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 39.34693, −106.11863 (approximate)
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-cameron-peak-2
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1936 BuiltL-4 tower, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
- No record between 1936 and 1962
- 1962 Destroyedfirelookout.com says destroyed 1962; Forest Lookouts lists the tower as removedSources: firelookout.com, montanalookouts.weebly.com
- 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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
Cameron Peak is in the Lolo National Forest, about 16 miles northwest of St. Regis, in Mineral County, Montana.1 The site sits at an elevation of 6,081 feet.1
The lookout was an L-4 tower, built in 1936.1 The firelookout.com page says it was destroyed in 1962.1
Sources do not agree on how the tower came down. Forest Lookouts' Montana page lists it as removed,2 and the Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana county list shows it as "Tower Gone."3 All three sources agree the tower is no longer standing.1,2,3
We found no source that describes Cameron Peak today, including whether anything remains at the site or whether the summit is open to visitors.
- Cameron Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, http://www.firelookout.com/mt/cameronpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Cameron Peak, Forest Lookouts (Montana), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/cameron-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana Lookouts (by County), Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/mt-co/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
Sources
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, status, 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
- 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 County) (Forest Fire Lookout Association) (opens another site)
- Cameron Peak on Forest Lookouts, western US (Ron Kemnow) (opens another site)
- firelookout.com page (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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