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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana

Skyline Mountain

Gone Kootenai National Forest lookout 16 miles NW of Libby, Montana: a cabin in the 1920s, an L-4 cab listed for 1935, and no source describing the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed as gone; no source gives a year for its removal.

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-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1935
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kootenai National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Lincoln County, Montana
Coordinates
48.57841, −115.76650
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-skyline-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1935 BuiltL-4 cab listed for 1935; the page does not say whether it replaced the 1920s cabinSource: firelookout.com
  2. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Skyline Mountain sits about 16 miles northwest of Libby, Montana, in the Kootenai National Forest and Lincoln County.1 The firelookout.com page gives its elevation as 6,250 feet.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list puts the site at 48.57841 north and 115.76650 west.2

The page dates a cabin at the site to the 1920s and lists an L-4 cab for 1935.1 It does not say whether the L-4 cab replaced the earlier cabin.1 The same list gives the site's type as ground and its status as gone.2

Neither source says when the lookout was removed.1,2

Today, no source we read describes what remains at the site, and none says whether the public may visit it.1 The sources we found describe the site in only a few lines.1

  1. Skyline Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/skylinemtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. 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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