Fire lookout · Flathead County, Montana
Nasukoin Mountain
Flathead National Forest cabin: camp 1929, L-4 cab 1931, abandoned 1956 and now gone. A National Forest trail runs to Nasukoin Peak.
- Gone
- Open to the public
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned in 1956 and listed as gone; no source describes what, if anything, remains of the cabin site
Visit & stay
Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent. You may still be able to visit the site.
Access
Open to the public. A National Forest trail leads to Nasukoin Peak; no source describes access to the cabin site itself
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Trail
- 5.8 miles, rated high difficulty, from Red Meadow Creek roads 115 and 589 to Nasukoin Peak
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1931
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Flathead National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Flathead County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48.79677, −114.57338
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-nasukoin-mountain
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1929 EventCamp recorded at the site (firelookout.com gives only 'camp')Source: firelookout.com
- 1931 BuiltL-4 cabSource: firelookout.com
- No record between 1931 and 1956
- 1956 AbandonedCabin abandonedSource: firelookout.com
- 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.
Nasukoin Mountain rises in the Flathead National Forest, about 13 miles west of Polebridge in Flathead County.1 Its elevation is 8,086 feet.1 The site is recorded as a camp in 1929, and an L-4 cab followed in 1931.1
The cabin was abandoned in 1956, and the lookout website lists the site as gone.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's list of Montana lookouts also marks it Gone, as a ground-level structure.2
Today a National Forest trail runs from the Red Meadow Creek roads 115 and 589 to Nasukoin Peak, a 5.8-mile route rated high difficulty.3 None of the sources we read describes what, if anything, remains of the cabin site.
- Nasukoin Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/nasukoinmtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Nasukoin Trail, TravelMT.com, http://www.travelmt.com/mt_sites_4832_Nasukoin+Trail.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, access, visiting details, 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
- Nasukoin Trail (TravelMT.com) (opens another site)
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Nasukoin Mtn. on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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