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Fire lookout · Flathead County, Montana

Canyon Point

Flathead County, MT lookout site on the Flathead NF; firelookout.com dates an L-4 cab to 1932 and its destruction to 1960; listed as gone; no staffing or fire history found.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Ground lookout listed as gone (Forest Fire Lookout Association list); no source describes what remains

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
1932
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Flathead National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Flathead County, Montana
Coordinates
48.23092, −113.74179
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-canyon-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1932 BuiltL-4 cab mid-slope between Canyon Creek and Clorinda Creek, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1932 and 1960
  3. 1960 Destroyedfirelookout.com: 'Destroyed 1960.'Source: firelookout.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.

Canyon Point is a former fire lookout in Flathead County, Montana, on the Flathead National Forest, about 18 miles southeast of Hungry Horse.1 The Forest Lookouts listing places it at township 29 North, range 17 West, section 35.2 Both lookout pages agree that it sits in Flathead County on the Flathead National Forest.1,2

The firelookout.com page dates an L-4 cab at the site to 1932, on the mid-slope between Canyon Creek and Clorinda Creek.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list calls it a ground lookout and gives its coordinates as 48.23092 north, 113.74179 west.3

According to the same firelookout.com page, the cab was destroyed in 1960.1

The Forest Fire Lookout Association's list now shows the lookout as gone.3 No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today.

  1. Canyon Point Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/canyonpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Canyon Point - FOREST LOOKOUTS, Forest Lookouts, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/canyon-point1.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana lookout list, 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. 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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