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Fire lookout · Mineral County, Montana

Cameron Peak

Mineral County, MT tower on the Lolo NF: an L-4 tower dated 1936 and destroyed in 1962 per firelookout.com; the Forest Lookouts list says removed.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Not standing. The sources differ on how it ended: destroyed in 1962, or removed with no date.

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
Cab on a towerL-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1936
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lolo National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Mineral County, Montana
Coordinates
47.44331, −115.36447
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-cameron-peak

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History

Then and now

  1. 1936 BuiltL-4 tower, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1936 and 1962
  3. 1962 Destroyedfirelookout.com gives destroyed 1962; the Forest Lookouts list gives removed, undatedSources: firelookout.com, montanalookouts.weebly.com
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Cameron Peak is a former fire lookout in Mineral County, Montana, on the Lolo National Forest.1,2 The site listing dates an L-4 tower there to 1936.1

The same listing says the tower was destroyed in 1962.1 The Forest Lookouts list of Montana towers marks it as removed, with no date, and gives the land description as township 20 North, range 30 West, section 36.2 The sources differ on how the tower ended, but all of them treat it as no longer standing.1,2,3

The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list gives its status as gone and its coordinates as 47.44331 north and 115.36447 west.3

No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, and we found nothing about public access.1,2,3

  1. Cameron Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/cameronpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Cameron Peak - FOREST LOOKOUTS, Forest Lookouts, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/cameron-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, 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. 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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