Fire lookout · Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Bass Pro Shop – Hooksett (moved from Alabama)
Also known as Bass Pro Shop – Hooksett
Hooksett (Merrimack Co.), NH refurbished Aermotor tower erected behind a Bass Pro Shop in early 2022; fenced, not open to the public; FFLA list says relocated from AL.
- Standing
- Closed
- Verified
Closed
The site is closed to visitors. Fenced area behind the Bass Pro Shop; not open to the public (2022 chapter report)
Visit & stay
Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.
Access
Closed. See the warning at the top of this page.
- Can you climb it?
- No
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Trail
- Fenced; first flight of stairs not installed (2022 chapter report)
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a towerrefurbished Aermotor tower (refurbished by Davana before erection)The design: Aermotor
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 2022
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Unknown
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Merrimack County, New Hampshire
- Coordinates
- 43.04077, −71.47663
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-nh-bass-pro-shop-hooksett
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History
Then and now
- 2022 BuiltValley Crane Company erected a refurbished Aermotor tower behind a Bass Pro Shop in Hooksett early in 2022; it is fenced, closed to the public and lacks its first stair flight.Source: firelookout.org
- 2022 MovedValley Crane Company erected the refurbished tower behind the Bass Pro Shop off Route 3A early in 2022; the FFLA New Hampshire list says it was relocated from AL, which the 2022 report does not confirmSources: firelookout.org, firelookout.org
- Date unknown MovedMoved from Alabama to the Bass Pro Shop – Hooksett.Source: FFLA
- 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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
The tower stands behind the Bass Pro Shop off Route 3A in Hooksett, New Hampshire, in Merrimack County.1,2 It is a refurbished Aermotor tower.1 Early in 2022, Valley Crane Company erected it on the site, after Davana had refurbished it.1
The Forest Fire Lookout Association's New Hampshire list says the tower was relocated from Alabama.2 The association's 2022 chapter report does not confirm that. It says Davana has not responded to an inquiry about where the tower was removed from.1 The searches we ran did not turn up another source that names the earlier site.
We found no record of a fire watch, staffing or fires for this tower in the sources we read.
The 2022 report says the tower sits in a fenced area, is not open to the public, and is missing its first flight of stairs.1 The association's list shows it as standing.2 The report dates from 2022 and the list is undated, so neither shows its condition today. Treat the site as closed. Stay out of the fenced area, and do not try to climb the tower.
- New Hampshire Chapter report for 2022, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cr-nh-2022.pdf (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- New Hampshire lookouts list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/nh/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
Sources
- Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, dates, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
- Forest Fire Lookout Association chapter reports (opens another site) Gave us: dates, links Forest Fire Lookout Association, chapter and restoration-grant reports (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts only (dates, names, the kind of work done). Every note is our own wording and every event links to the FFLA report it comes from. Positions are copied from the NHLR, FFLOS and FFLA records. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, access, visiting details, 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 New Hampshire lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Forest Fire Lookout Association chapter reports: work on Bass Pro Shop – Hooksett (moved from Alabama) (opens another site)
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