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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Badger (Noti) Mountain Lookout Site

Also known as Noti (Badger Mountain)

Lane County lookout on Noti Peak, built 1938-39 for the Western Lane FPA; abandoned 1965 and gone by 1980. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned in 1965 and gone by 1980 per the register and firelookout.com; no source describes what remains on the site

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 tower30' live-in L-4 tower per the register; Forest Lookouts describes a 24-foot pole-leg tower with a standard 14x14 cabinThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1938
Height
40 ft (12.2 m)
Elevation
1,476 ft (450 m)
Agency
Western Lane FPA
Land
Unknown
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
44.05064, −123.50288
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-badger-noti-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1938 BuiltConstruction started September 1938 on a 24-ft pole-leg tower with a standard 14x14 cabin; 766 man-days by CCC Camp P-219Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1938 EventRoad and telephone line built to the lookout (state 1938 annual report, as quoted by Forest Lookouts)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1939 BuiltRegister and firelookout.com date the 30-ft L-4 tower to 1939Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  4. No record between 1939 and 1956
  5. 1956 AlteredBuilding erected to house a radio repeater unit, at a cost of $1127.17Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1957 AlteredTower legs and a stairway replacedSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. 1965 AbandonedLookout abandonedSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com, firelookout.com
  8. No record between 1965 and 1980
  9. 1980 RemovedGone by 1980 per register and firelookout.com; Forest Lookouts says only 'Removed', with no dateSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com, firelookout.com
  10. No record between 1980 and 2010
  11. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 22, 2010; nominated by Ray KresekSource: firetower.org
  12. 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 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The lookout stood on Noti Peak in Lane County, Oregon.1,2 The Former Fire Lookout Sites register files it as Badger (Noti) Mountain and lists the Western Lane FPA as its administrator.1

A February 1938 Forest Log item said a new lookout would go up on Noti Peak once the road was finished, and that the tower was to be 40 feet.2 Building began that September on a 24-foot pole-leg tower with a standard 14-by-14 cabin.2 The page credits CCC Camp P-219 with 766 man-days of work and gives a total cost of $1,471.17 from the investment record it cites.2 The state's 1938 annual report also records a road and telephone line built to the lookout that year.2

The register and firelookout.com do not agree with that account. Both describe a 30-foot L-4 tower built in 1939, and the register calls it live-in.1,3 We could not reconcile the 1938 start, the 24-foot height and the 1939 date from these pages alone.1,2,3

Upkeep included a radio repeater building in 1956, which cost $1,127.17, and new tower legs and a stairway in 1957.2

The lookout was abandoned in 1965.1,2,3 By 1980 the register and firelookout.com both list it as gone, and Forest Lookouts ends its entry with the single word "Removed."1,2,3

We found no source that describes what, if anything, is still standing on the site, and none says whether the public may visit it. Our record lists access as unknown, so treat the site as closed and ask the Western Lane FPA before going near it.

  1. Badger (Noti) Mountain Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/badger-noti-mountain-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Noti Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/noti-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Badger (Noti) Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/badgernoti.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, register numbers, agency, dates, links Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  2. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: type, status, register numbers, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. 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
  4. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: height, 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
  5. 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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