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Fire lookout · Coos County, New Hampshire

Whitcomb Mountain

Coos Co., NH tower listed standing; Forest Lookouts describes a 60-ft Aermotor tower in Feb 2020 imagery; no build date, owner or access rules found.

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Access unknown

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Can you climb it?
Unknown
Road to the top?
Unknown
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Standing
Type
Cab on a towerAermotor tower, about 60 feet tall, per Forest Lookouts (Feb 2020 Google Earth imagery)The design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
Unknown
Height
60 ft (18.3 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Private
Land
Unknown
Location
Coos County, New Hampshire
Coordinates
44.72953, −71.33227
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-nh-whitcomb-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 2020 EventStanding in February 2020 Google Earth imagery, per Forest LookoutsSource: easternuslookouts.weebly.com
  2. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Whitcomb Mountain is in Coos County, New Hampshire, and the Forest Fire Lookout Association lists a tower on it as standing.1 A Forest Lookouts page for the mountain describes an Aermotor tower about 60 feet tall, seen in Google Earth imagery from February 2020.2 The same page carries the label Private in its header block, which we read as the site's ownership.2

We found no build date and no builder for the tower. We also found no record of who staffed it, what fires it watched, or whether it has been closed. Our web searches returned map and listing pages, not a history of the tower.

Nothing we read names an owner or sets access rules, so we cannot say whether the public may go up. Before visiting, find out who owns the land and ask permission. We do not recommend climbing this tower.

  1. New Hampshire lookouts list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/nh/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Whitcomb Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/whitcomb-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

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. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: what it is built of, design, height, agency, links easternuslookouts.weebly.com · No licence stated; facts only (county, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, status, height, design hints, register links). The site's own historical quotes, newspaper citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, 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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