Fire lookout · Mineral County, Montana
Rivers Peak
A 1935 L-4 cab on a north spur of Rivers Peak in the Lolo National Forest, which the page says was destroyed in 1955.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.
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
- Type
- Ground-level cabL-4 cab on a north spurThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1935
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Lolo National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Mineral County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 47.34079, −115.46566
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
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View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1935 BuiltPage dates an L-4 cab on the north spur to 1935.Source: firelookout.com
- No record between 1935 and 1955
- 1955 DestroyedPage says destroyed in 1955; no cause given.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.
Rivers Peak is in Mineral County, in the Lolo National Forest, about 13 miles southeast of Lookout Pass.1 The peak stands at 5,305 feet, and the Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list gives the site's coordinates as 47.34079, -115.46566.1,2
The lookout dates to 1935, when an L-4 cab stood on a north spur of the peak.1 The page, titled Rivers Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, says the cab was destroyed in 1955, twenty years after 1935.1 The association's list marks the site as gone.2
No source describes what, if anything, remains of the site today, or whether the spot is open to the public. The page lists the Lolo National Forest for the site.1
- Rivers Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/riverspeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana lookout list, 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
- 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Rivers Peak on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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