Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana
Goat Peak
Lincoln County, MT lookout site in the Kootenai NF, about 5 miles SW of Troy; L-4 cab dated 1933; firelookout.com and the FFLA list mark it gone with no removal date.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. firelookout.com says Gone and gives no removal date; the FFLA Montana list also marks it 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
- Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1933
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Kootenai National Forest (as named on firelookout.com)
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Lincoln County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48.40648, −115.97373
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-goat-peak
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1933 BuiltL-4 cab, dated 1933 on firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
- 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.
Goat Peak was a lookout in Lincoln County, Montana, in the Kootenai National Forest, about 5 miles southwest of Troy.1 The Fire Lookout website gives its elevation as 5,416 feet.1 The association's Montana list gives the coordinates as 48.40648, -115.97373.2
The lookout there was an L-4 cab, which the website dates to 1933.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the site as a ground-level structure, not a tower.2
The website calls the lookout gone but gives no date for its removal.1 The association's Montana list also marks it gone.2
Wikipedia says a different Goat Peak, in the North Cascades of Washington, is topped by a Forest Service lookout that is in operation.3
We found no source that describes what remains at the site today, such as footings or a foundation, or whether the public can visit it. Anyone planning a trip should ask the Kootenai National Forest about access before heading out.
- Goat Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/goatpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Goat Peak, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Peak (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
- Goat Peak (Wikipedia) (opens another site)
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Goat Peak on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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