Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana
Red Mountain
Red Mountain lookout in Lincoln County, Montana: 1933 pole tower, R-6 cab in the 1950s, destroyed 1959. No source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1959 per firelookout.com. 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
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1933
- Height
- 30 ft (9.1 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Kootenai National Forest
- Land
- Federal land
- Location
- Lincoln County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48.90313, −115.36113
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-red-mountain
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1933 Built30-foot pole L-4 tower, per firelookout.com.Source: firelookout.com
- No record between 1933 and 1950
- 1950 AlteredR-6 cab in the 1950s. The source gives only the decade, so 1950 is a placeholder year.Source: firelookout.com
- 1959 DestroyedDestroyed 1959, per firelookout.com. The source gives no cause.Source: 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.
The Red Mountain lookout in Lincoln County stood about 14 miles west of Eureka, in the Kootenai National Forest, at an elevation of 6,599 feet.1 Firelookout.com dates the tower to 1933 and lists it as a 30-foot pole L-4 tower.1 In the 1950s the lookout was given an R-6 cab.1
The same listing says the lookout was destroyed in 1959.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list marks the tower as gone.2
No source describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the spot is open to visitors.1,2
- Red Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, Firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/redmtn334.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (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
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) (opens another site) 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
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Red Mtn. on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
- Red Mountain on Forest Lookouts, western US (Ron Kemnow) (opens another site)
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