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Fire lookout · Lincoln County, Oregon

Blodgett Peak Lookout Site

Siuslaw NF lookout built 1943 as a 40-ft pole L-4 tower; moved to Cummins Lookout in 1953; no source describes the summit site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Moved to Cummins Lookout in 1953 per the register and firelookout.com; Forest Lookouts marks the Blodgett site removed; no source describes the site today

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

Access unknown

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerL-4 cab on a 40-foot pole tower (creosoted, per the October 1943 newspaper)The design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1943
Height
40 ft (12.2 m)
Elevation
1,052 ft (321 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Lincoln County, Oregon
Coordinates
44.34587, −124.05964
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-blodgett-peak

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History

Then and now

  1. 1943 BuiltLookout station under construction in January 1943; workers from Camp Albert Angell were to build a tower (planned as 20 ft in February). By October 1943 a 14-by-14 house on a 40-foot creosoted tower had been erectedSources: firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1953 MovedMoved to Cummins Lookout in 1953 (register and firelookout.com). Which Cummins site is not identifiedSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  3. No record between 1953 and 2010
  4. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 22, 2010 as US 671, OR 103Source: firetower.org
  5. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Blodgett Peak rises to about 1,052 feet in the Siuslaw National Forest, in Lincoln County, Oregon.1

In January 1943 the Corvallis Gazette-Times reported that a lookout station was going up in the middle of the Blodgett area, and that planned roads and trails would aid fire control and shield the tract's plantations.2 In early February, papers said workers from Camp Albert Angell, a camp for conscientious objectors, were to build the tower. One report said it would be a log tower 20 feet tall.2

By October 1943 the Corvallis Gazette-Times reported that a 14-by-14 house had been put up on the peak, atop a creosoted tower 40 feet tall, and that a good road now let visitors reach the lookout by car.2 The Register and firelookout.com both describe a 40-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab.1,3 The February height plan appears to have been superseded.

In 1953 the lookout was moved to Cummins Lookout.1,3 The Register dates a photo of the tower on Blodgett Peak to 1943 through 1953.1

The sources use both "Cummins Lookout" and "Cummins Peak Lookout,"1,3 and they do not say which Cummins site received the tower. A Register entry for a Cummins Peak site in Lane County says a 41-foot timber tower topped by an L-4 cab went up in 1954 and was removed in 1975.4 That entry does not say whether it is the same tower.

The Forest Lookouts page marks the Blodgett Peak lookout as removed.2 No source we read describes what, if anything, is left on the summit today, or whether the site is open to visitors.

  1. Blodgett Peak Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/blodgett-peak-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Blodgett Peak, Forest Lookouts (Ron Kemnow), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/blodgett-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Blodgett Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/blodgettpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Cummins Peak Lookout Site (Lane County), Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/cummins-peak-lookout-site-lane-county/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Blodgett Peak Lookout 1943 - 1953
Blodgett Peak Lookout 1943 - 1953 (1943)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, ownership, dates, photos, 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, 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

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