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Fire lookout · Flathead County, Montana

Tom Tom Mountain

Flathead County, MT ground site on the Flathead NF, 10 miles east of Bigfork: an L-4 cab listed for 1931, destroyed in 1953. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1953 according to firelookout.com; the state list files it under Ground and marks it gone.

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
1931
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Flathead National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Flathead County, Montana
Coordinates
48.05743, −113.86360
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-tom-tom-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1931 BuiltL-4 cab listed for 1931, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1931 and 1953
  3. 1953 DestroyedDestroyed 1953, per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  4. 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.

Tom Tom Mountain lies 10 miles east of Bigfork, in the Flathead National Forest of Flathead County, Montana, at an elevation of 7,070 feet.1

Firelookout.com lists an L-4 cab there in 1931, and says it was destroyed in 1953.1

The Forest Fire Lookout Association's state list files the site under "Ground" and marks it gone, at 48.05743 north and 113.86360 west.2

No source we read describes what remains on the mountain today, or whether the site is open to visitors.

  1. Tom Tom Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/tomtommtn.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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