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Fire lookout · Park County, Montana

Lookout Mountain

Park County, MT treated-timber R-6 tower dated 1955 on the Gallatin National Forest; listed as gone, and no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed as Gone by firelookout.com and by the Forest Fire Lookout Association

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 tower20-foot treated timber R-6 towerThe design: R-6
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1955
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Gallatin National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Park County, Montana
Coordinates
45.09569, −110.22535 sources disagree
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-lookout-mountain-4

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1955 BuiltListing gives 1955 with the tower description; read as the build yearSource: firelookout.com
  2. 1969 EventListing carries an 'Emergency 1969' entry with no explanationSource: firelookout.com
  3. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Fire Lookout Tower listing places Lookout Mountain in Park County, 22 miles east-northeast of Gardiner.1 Rex's Fire Lookout Page puts it in the Gallatin National Forest and gives its location code as 8S-12E-34.2

The listing gives 1955 and describes a 20-foot R-6 tower of treated timber.1 It gives the elevation as 9,870 feet.1 It also carries an "Emergency 1969" entry, which it does not explain.1

The Forest Fire Lookout Association places the tower at 45.09569, -110.22535 and lists it as gone.3 Montana has other lookouts with this name, including one in Ravalli County, so the county and coordinates are needed to tell them apart.3

No source we read describes what remains at the site today, or whether the public can reach it.1,2,3

  1. Lookout Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/lookoutmtn398a.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lookout Mountain - Forest Lookouts, Rex's Fire Lookout Page, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/lookout-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on the location by 520 m.

    • FFLA: 45.09569, −110.22535
    • FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites): 45.09522, −110.21880

    The map uses the position from FFLA.

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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