Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Montana
Warex
Lincoln County, MT 70-foot pole tower built 1934 in the Kootenai National Forest; destroyed in 1972 or 1975; no source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. firelookout.com says it was destroyed in either 1972 or 1975; the year is not settled
Visit & stay
Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.
Access
Access unknown
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower70-foot pole tower, described as an L-4 towerThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1934
- Height
- 70 ft (21.3 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Kootenai National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Lincoln County, Montana
- Coordinates
- 48.65832, −115.27443
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-mt-warex
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1934 BuiltListed as 1934: 70-foot pole L-4 tower on firelookout.comSource: firelookout.com
- TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.
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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The Warex lookout was a 70-foot pole tower, which its listing calls an L-4 tower.1 It stood in the Kootenai National Forest, about 18 miles south-southwest of Eureka, in Lincoln County, Montana.1,2 The site is at 6,242 feet.1
The listing puts the tower in 1934.1 Only one page we found gives this tower's history, so the dates rest on a single listing.
The same listing places its destruction in 1972 or 1975 and does not say which year.1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists it as a tower, places it at 48.65832, -115.27443, and marks it as gone.2
No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the public may visit it.
- Warex Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/warex.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Montana Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/mt/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
Sources
- Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists (opens another site) 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
- firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page (opens another site) 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
- 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- FFLA Montana lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Warex on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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