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Fire lookout · Sanders County, Montana

Two Trees Point

Sanders County, MT log cupola cabin on the east summit, 18 mi NNE of Thompson Falls; built 1933 (or 1928 per Forest Lookouts), destroyed 1962; now listed as a ground site, gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1962 per firelookout.com; the Forest Fire Lookout Association list marks the site as a ground site that is gone. No source describes what remains.

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 cabLog cupola cabin on the east summitThe design: Cupola house
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1928
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lolo National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Sanders County, Montana
Coordinates
47.85373, −115.24066
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-two-trees-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1928 BuiltForest Lookouts gives 1928 for a log cabin with a cupola; this conflicts with the 1933 date on firelookout.comSource: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1933 BuiltLog cupola cabin built atop the east summit per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  3. 1933 EventNovember 22, 1933 Independent-Ledger item (quoted on Forest Lookouts): a spur off the new road linked to the Two Trees Lookout; suggests a lookout was in place that yearSource: montanalookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1933 and 1962
  5. 1962 DestroyedCabin destroyed in 1962 per firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
  6. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Two Trees Point is about 18 miles north-northeast of Thompson Falls, in Sanders County, Montana.1 Its lookout stood at about 6,040 feet.1 The Fire Lookout page places it in the Lolo National Forest.1 The Forest Lookouts page gives both names, Cabinet National Forest and then Lolo National Forest.2

The sources do not agree on when the cabin went up. The Fire Lookout page says a log cupola cabin was built on the east summit in 1933.1 The Forest Lookouts page gives 1928 for a log cabin with a cupola.2 A November 1933 item from the Sanders County Independent-Ledger, quoted on that same page, describes a spur off the new road that linked to the Two Trees Lookout, which suggests a lookout was already in place that year.2

The cabin was destroyed in 1962.1

The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the site as a ground site, with the lookout gone.3 No source we read describes what, if anything, remains on the summit today, or whether the site is open to visitors.

  1. Two Trees Point Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/twotrees.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Two Trees Point, Forest Lookouts (quotes the Sanders County Independent-Ledger), https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/two-trees-point.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Photos

View photo at firelookout.com
Two Trees Point lookout photo, larger image linked from the page; no date given on the pagePhoto: Fire Lookout Museum and Pete Molenda · not stated on the page · source
View photo at firelookout.com
Second Two Trees Point lookout photo linked from the page; no date given on the pagePhoto: Fire Lookout Museum and Pete Molenda · not stated on the page · 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: 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, status, agency, dates, photos, 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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