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Fire lookout · Powell County, Montana

Lena Peak

Powell County, MT lookout on the Flathead NF: an L-4 cab is listed for 1930, a cabin for 1947, abandoned 1961, and now gone or removed.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned in 1961 and listed as gone or removed; 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

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cab listed for 1930; cabin listed for 1947The design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
Unknown
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Flathead National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Powell County, Montana
Coordinates
47.49686, −113.46336
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-lena-peak

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1930 EventL-4 cab listed for 1930 (firelookout.com)Source: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1930 and 1947
  3. 1947 EventCabin listed for 1947 (firelookout.com)Source: firelookout.com
  4. 1961 AbandonedAbandoned 1961 per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  5. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Lena Peak sits in Powell County, Montana, about 22 miles north of Seeley Lake, on the Flathead National Forest.1,2 The firelookout.com page gives its elevation as 8,364 feet.1

That page lists an L-4 cab in 1930 and a cabin in 1947.1 It says the site was abandoned in 1961 and is now gone.1

The Forest Lookouts site lists the lookout as removed.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's list classes the site as a ground site that is gone.3

No source we read describes the site today, including whether any remains are visible or whether the public can reach it. Anyone planning a visit should check with the Flathead National Forest first.

  1. Lena Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/lenapeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lena Peak - Forest Lookouts, Forest Lookouts (Montana), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/lena-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, 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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