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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana

Pleasant View

Kootenai National Forest L-6 cab in Lincoln County, built 1934 and abandoned 1942; the Montana index lists the site as gone and no source describes it today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Montana index lists the site as gone; the firelookout.com page gives its date range as 1934 with an unknown end year

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
Ground-level cabL-6 cabThe design: L-6
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kootenai National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Lincoln County, Montana
Coordinates
48.69669, −115.77929
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-pleasant-view

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 BuiltL-6 cab built in 1934Source: firelookout.com
  2. 1942 AbandonedCab abandoned in 1942Source: firelookout.com
  3. 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.

The Pleasant View lookout in Lincoln County, Montana, was an L-6-type cab erected in 1934 on the Kootenai National Forest.1,2,3

Forest Lookouts lists it under the Kootenai National Forest at 34N-32W-19.2 The Montana index places it at 48.69669 north and 115.77929 west and classes it as a ground site.2,3

The firelookout.com page says the cab was abandoned in 1942, eight years after it was built.1

The Montana index marks the site as gone.3

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

  1. Pleasant View Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/pleasantview.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lincoln County, Forest Lookouts, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/lincoln-county.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. 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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