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Fire lookout · Sanders County, Montana

Coney Peak

Lolo NF lookout six miles northwest of Hot Springs, Sanders County; firelookout.com gives a 1934 30-ft L-4 tower destroyed in 1952, and FFLA lists it gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1952 per firelookout.com. Forest Lookouts lists it only as 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 tower30-foot L-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
30 ft (9.1 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lolo National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Sanders County, Montana
Coordinates
47.68268, −114.76832
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-coney-peak

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 Built30-foot L-4 tower, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1934 and 1952
  3. 1952 DestroyedFirelookout.com says destroyed in 1952; Forest Lookouts gives no dateSource: 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.

The Coney Peak lookout stood in the Lolo National Forest, six miles northwest of Hot Springs in Sanders County, at about 6,100 feet.1,2 Firelookout.com describes a 30-foot L-4 tower there, dated to 1934.1

Firelookout.com dates the tower's destruction to 1952.1 Forest Lookouts (Montana) lists the site under Lolo National Forest and gives its status as "Removed," with no date.2 The two pages differ on how the tower ended, and only one of them gives a year.

The Forest Fire Lookout Association places the site at 47.68268, -114.76832, files it among its Sanders County entries, and lists the tower as gone.3

We found no source that describes what remains at the site today or whether the site is open to the public.

  1. Coney Peak Fire Lookout Tower, Firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/coneypeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Coney Peak, Forest Lookouts (Montana), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/coney-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. 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, height, 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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