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Fire lookout · Jackson County, Oregon

Camp Two Lookout Site

Rogue River NF emergency lookout: 40-ft pole L-5 built 1935 or 1936 near the Owen-Oregon CCC camp; later removed or destroyed; no current site description found.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Register says the tower was later removed; firelookout.com says it was later destroyed. The Forest Fire Lookout Association list shows Tower Gone.

Visit & stay

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

Access

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower40-foot pole L-5 towerThe design: L-5
Built of
Wood
Built
1935
Height
40 ft (12.2 m)
Elevation
3,354 ft (1,022 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Jackson County, Oregon
Coordinates
42.49270, −122.39470
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-camp-two

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History

Then and now

  1. 1935 BuiltOregon Forest Lookouts quotes a forest history entry: 40-ft round timber tower with a 10x10 house on an emergency lookout point near Camp Two.Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1936 BuiltBuilt at the site of the Owen-Oregon CCC Camp as a 40-ft pole L-5 tower (register and firelookout.com).Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  3. 1941 EventFive-man crew did maintenance at the emergency lookout near their camp; $100 allotted for repairs (forest history quoted by Oregon Forest Lookouts).Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1941 and 2010
  5. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered November 24, 2010, nominated by Ray Kresek (US 775, OR 184).Source: firetower.org
  6. 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.

Camp Two was a lookout on the Rogue River National Forest, about 26 miles northeast of Medford in Jackson County, Oregon.1,2 The Oregon Forest Lookouts site calls it an emergency lookout.3

Sources differ on when the tower went up. A forest history quoted by the Oregon Forest Lookouts site dates a 40-foot round timber tower with a 10-by-10 house to 1935, at a point near Camp Two that served as an emergency lookout. The entry says the tower would give coverage over cutover ground along Fourbit and Willow Creeks.3 The Former Fire Lookout Sites register and firelookout.com both date it to 1936, and both place it at the Owen-Oregon CCC camp site as a 40-foot pole L-5 tower.2,1

A 1941 entry in the same history says five men were put to maintenance work at the lookout near their camp, and that $100 was set aside for repairs.3

According to the register the tower was later removed, while firelookout.com says it was later destroyed.2,1 The Forest Fire Lookout Association list marks the site as gone.4 None of the sources read for this story describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether visitors can reach it.

  1. Camp Two Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/camptwo.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Camp Two Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/camp-two-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Camp Two - Forest Lookouts, Oregon Forest Lookouts (oregonlookouts.weebly.com), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/camp-two.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Oregon Lookouts list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/or/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Camp Two Lookout Site
Photo: 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: 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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