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Fire lookout · Ravalli County, Montana

Squaw Point

Bitterroot NF 20-ft L-4 tower near Stevensville, MT, from the 1930s; destroyed or removed in 1961 (sources differ); no site description today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1961 per firelookout.com; removed in 1961 per Forest Lookouts; FFLA lists Tower Gone. No source describes the site now.

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
Cab on a tower20-foot L-4 tower (firelookout.com)The design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
Unknown
Height
20 ft (6.1 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Bitterroot National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Ravalli County, Montana
Coordinates
46.43430, −113.88400
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-squaw-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1945 StaffedLaura Roberts listed as known lookout personnelSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1945 and 1961
  3. 1961 DestroyedDestroyed per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  4. 1961 RemovedRemoved per Forest Lookouts; conflicts with 'destroyed' on firelookout.comSource: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  5. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Squaw Point lookout stood 11 miles southeast of Stevensville, in Ravalli County, Montana, on the Bitterroot National Forest.1,2 Ron Kemnow's page gives the survey location as 8N-18W-20.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association places the site at 46.43430, -113.88400.3

Rex Kamstra's firelookout.com page puts the site at 6,655 feet and describes a 20-foot L-4 tower from the 1930s.1 The same page names one lookout person, Laura Roberts, in 1945.1

The sources disagree on how the tower ended.1,2 Kamstra's page says it was destroyed in 1961.1 Ron Kemnow's Forest Lookouts page says it was removed that year.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the tower as gone.3

No source describes what remains at the site today, and no source says whether the public can visit it.1,2,3

  1. Squaw Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra), https://www.firelookout.com/mt/squawpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Squaw Point, Forest Lookouts, western US (Ron Kemnow), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/squaw-point.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts (by County), Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/mt-co/ (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, 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

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