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Fire lookout · Granite County, Montana

Quigg Peak

Lolo National Forest log and frame cupola cabin; 1921 and 1923 newspapers, quoted on Rex's page, refer to a lookout on the peak before the 1928 build date. Destroyed in 1968 per firelookout.com.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1968 (firelookout.com); Rex's page says removed, undated. No source describes the site today.

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. No source describes access to the peak today.

Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cablog and frame cupola cabinThe design: Cupola house
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1928
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lolo National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Granite County, Montana
Coordinates
46.48201, −113.71918
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-quigg-peak

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1921 EventDescribed as a combination lookout (Missoulian, Sept. 22, 1921, quoted on Rex's page)Source: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1923 StaffedCarter Kem of Indiana on the lookout that fire season (Daily Missoulian, Sept. 10, 1923)Source: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1926 StaffedJack Thurmond of Georgia to be stationed for the summer (Daily Missoulian, June 22, 1926)Source: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1928 BuiltLog and frame cupola cabin (firelookout.com)Source: firelookout.com
  5. No record between 1928 and 1968
  6. 1968 DestroyedDestroyed in 1968 (firelookout.com); Rex's page says Removed, no yearSources: firelookout.com, montanalookouts.weebly.com
  7. 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.

Quigg Peak rises to 8,419 feet in Granite County, Montana, about 17 miles east of Stevensville, in the Lolo National Forest.1

The firelookout.com page describes a log and frame cupola cabin built in 1928.1 Rex's Forest Lookouts page, though, quotes 1921 and 1923 newspapers that refer to a lookout on the peak.2 A Billings Gazette item from September 1921 described a station as still to be built, and a Missoulian item later that month called the site a combination lookout.2 The sources disagree on when a lookout first stood there, and no source explains the gap.

The newspaper items also name people who were on the lookout or assigned to it.2 In 1923 Carter Kem of Indiana had spent that fire season on the lookout, and in 1926 Jack Thurmond of Georgia was to be stationed there for the summer.2

The firelookout.com page says the cabin was destroyed in 1968.1 Rex's page lists the site as removed, without a date.2 The two sources differ on how it ended.

No source describes what, if anything, remains on Quigg Peak today, or whether the peak is open to visitors.

  1. Quigg Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/quiggpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Quigg Peak - Forest Lookouts (Rex's Fire Lookout Page), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/quigg-peak.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. 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, access, 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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