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Fire lookout · Mineral County, Montana

Henderson Hill

1937 L-4 lookout tower on the Lolo National Forest in Mineral County, Montana; destroyed in 1962 and listed as gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1962; no source describes the site now.

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
1937
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lolo National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Mineral County, Montana
Coordinates
47.37640, −115.32116
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-henderson-hill

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1937 BuiltL-4 tower on the northwest end of the ridgeSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1937 and 1962
  3. 1962 DestroyedDestroyed; the page gives no causeSource: 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.

Henderson Hill was a fire lookout on the Lolo National Forest, 11 miles northwest of St. Regis in Mineral County, Montana.1 It was an L-4 tower, built in 1937 on the northwest end of a ridge.1 The page gives the site's elevation as 4,335 feet.1 The association's list places it at 47.376 N, 115.321 W.2

The tower was destroyed in 1962.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list still marks the site as gone.2 A separate lookout, Cameron Peak, also in Mineral County, was another L-4 tower destroyed in 1962.3

No source I read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the public can visit it. Check with the Lolo National Forest before going out to look for it.

  1. Henderson Hill Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/hendersonhill.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Cameron Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/cameronpeak.html (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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