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Fire lookout · Ravalli County, Montana

Teepee Point Lookout

Ravalli County, MT two-story gabled R-6 cab built 1984 to replace McCart Lookout; listed standing and staffed each summer; no access information found.

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Access unknown

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Can you climb it?
Unknown
Road to the top?
Unknown
Staffing
Staffed during fire season

Facts

Status
Standing
Type
Two-story buildingTwo-story gabled R-6 cab (1984) on a modified R-6 planThe design: R-6
Built of
Wood
Built
1984
Height
20 ft (6.0 m)
Elevation
6,625 ft (2,019 m)
Agency
Bitterroot National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Ravalli County, Montana
Coordinates
45.93326, −113.74170
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-teepee-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1984 BuiltTwo-story gabled R-6 cab built to replace McCart Lookout; lookout duties transferred from McCart (Forest Lookouts)Sources: firelookout.com, montanalookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1989 StaffedKnown lookout personnel listed for 1989 (firelookout.com)Source: firelookout.com
  3. 1998 StaffedKnown lookout personnel listed for 1998 (firelookout.com)Source: firelookout.com
  4. 2007 StaffedKnown lookout personnel listed for 2007 (firelookout.com)Source: firelookout.com
  5. TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.

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 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Teepee Point Lookout sits in Ravalli County, Montana, about 21 miles southeast of Darby, at 6,625 feet.1 The Bitterroot National Forest manages it.1

The current lookout went up in 1984 to replace McCart Lookout.1,2 It is a two-story gabled cab, and the Forest Lookouts page calls its plan a modified R-6 design.1,2 The same page says McCart's lookout duties passed to this site.2

The lookout is manned every summer.1 Firelookout.com lists known lookout personnel for 1989, 1998 and 2007.1 We found no fire history or closure for the site in the pages we read.

The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the lookout as standing, with a two-story cab.3

We found no access information for the site and no rental listing for it. Anyone planning a visit should check with the Bitterroot National Forest first.

  1. Teepee Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra), https://www.firelookout.com/mt/teepee.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Tepee Point, Forest Lookouts (western US), Ron Kemnow, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/tepee-point.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Teepee Point in 1984
Teepee Point in 1984 (1984)Photo: the Fire Lookout Museum, Gary Weber, and Rex Kamstra, via firelookout.com · source
Teepee Point L.O.
Teepee Point L.OPhoto: the Fire Lookout Museum, Gary Weber, and Rex Kamstra, via firelookout.com · source
Teepee Point in 2014
Teepee Point in 2014 (2014)Photo: the Fire Lookout Museum, Gary Weber, and Rex Kamstra, via firelookout.com · source

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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: elevation, design, agency, ownership, staffing, dates, photos, 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. OpenStreetMap -- fire lookout structures Gave us: what it is built of, height, links © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0. (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  4. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: 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
  5. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, agency, staffing, 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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