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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana

Lucky Point

Kootenai NF 10' pole L-4 tower built 1934 near Yaak; listed as gone. No source describes what remains at the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed as gone for a number of years; no source 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
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower10' pole L-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kootenai National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Lincoln County, Montana
Coordinates
48.77900, −115.88546
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-lucky-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 Built10' pole L-4 tower, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  2. 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.

Lucky Point is a former lookout site in the Kootenai National Forest, about nine miles west-southwest of Yaak in Lincoln County, Montana.1 The firelookout.com page dates it to 1934 and describes a 10' pole L-4 tower built that year. It lists the site at 5,179 feet.1

The page's heading reads "R.I.P. 1934-?" and notes that the tower has been down for an unstated number of years.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list also gives the tower as gone, at 48.77900 north and 115.88546 west.2

A Lincoln County list names Lucky Point under the Kootenai National Forest, with a township and range and no other detail.3

We found no source that describes what remains at the site today or whether it is open to visitors. Check with the Kootenai National Forest before going.

  1. Lucky Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/luckypoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Lincoln County - Forest Lookouts, montanalookouts.weebly.com, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/lincoln-county.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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