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Fire lookout · Judith Basin County, Montana

Yogo Peak

Judith Basin County, MT: 40-foot pole L-4 tower built 1936 on the Lewis & Clark NF, demolished 1970; listed as gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Demolished in 1970 according to firelookout.com; Forest Lookouts marks it removed

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
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower40-foot pole L-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1936
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Lewis & Clark National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Judith Basin County, Montana
Coordinates
46.92745, −110.54249
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-mt-yogo-peak

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1936 Built40-foot pole L-4 tower built in 1936Source: firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1936 and 1970
  3. 1970 RemovedTower demolished in 1970Source: firelookout.com
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

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 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Yogo Peak lookout was a 40-foot pole tower of the L-4 type, built in 1936 in Judith Basin County, Montana.1 It stood about eight miles east of Neihart, on the Lewis and Clark National Forest, and the page gives the peak's elevation as 8,846 feet.1,2

The firelookout.com page says the tower was demolished in 1970, after standing on the peak since 1936.1 The Forest Lookouts Yogo Peak page marks it as removed.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Montana list shows the tower as gone, at coordinates 46.92745, -110.54249.3

No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the peak today, or whether the site is open to visitors. Anyone thinking of going up should check with the national forest first.

  1. Yogo Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/mt/yogo.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Yogo Peak, Forest Lookouts, https://montanalookouts.weebly.com/yogo-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. 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. 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, 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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