Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana
Grizzly Point
Kootenai National Forest pole tower with an L-4 cab, built 1931 and gone by 1958; no source consulted describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Gone by 1958; no source consulted describes what remains at the site.
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
- Type
- Cab on a tower10-foot pole tower with an L-4 cabThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1931
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Kootenai National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Lincoln County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48.76948, −115.78542
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-grizzly-point
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1931 BuiltBuilt in 1931 as a 10-foot pole L-4 towerSource: firelookout.com
- No record between 1931 and 1958
- 1958 RemovedGone by 1958; firelookout.com gives no causeSources: firelookout.com, firelookout.org
- 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.
Grizzly Point stood in the Kootenai National Forest, about six miles southwest of Yaak in Lincoln County, Montana, at an elevation of 6,077 feet.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list records it as a tower in Lincoln County that is now gone.2 A separate Lincoln County list also places it in the Kootenai National Forest.3
The firelookout.com guide describes a 10-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab, built in 1931.1 The same page gives the dates 1931 to 1958 and says the tower was gone by 1958.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association list gives its coordinates as 48.76948, -115.78542.2 A photograph on the guide's page is credited to the Fire Lookout Museum.1
No source consulted describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the ground is open to visitors.
- Grizzly Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/grizzlypoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Lincoln County - Forest Lookouts, Montana Lookouts, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/lincoln-county.html (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
- Lincoln County - Forest Lookouts (Montana Lookouts (montanalookouts.weebly.com)) (opens another site)
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Grizzly Point on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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