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Coleman Point Lookout Site

L-5 cab built 1934 at Coleman Point, Lake County, OR; moved to Fitzwater Point 1948-49 and gone by 1967. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Cab moved to Fitzwater Point in 1948 (reassembled 1949) and gone from there by 1967; no source describes the Coleman Point 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
Ground-level cabL-5 cab, 10 by 10The design: L-5
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
6,892 ft (2,101 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Lake County, Oregon
Coordinates
42.44778, −120.71718
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-coleman-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 Built10 by 10 L-5 lookout cabin built; the site had a crow's nest platform earlier in the 1930sSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1936 EventPanorama photos taken August 16, 1936Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1948 MovedCab moved to Fitzwater Point; Oregon Lookouts says it was reassembled there the following yearSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1949 MovedFitzwater Point register dates the cab's arrival to 1949Source: firetower.org
  5. No record between 1949 and 1967
  6. 1967 RemovedCab gone from Fitzwater Point by 1967; Coleman Point register says it remained there until 1967Sources: firetower.org, firetower.org
  7. No record between 1967 and 2011
  8. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: May 20, 2011Source: FFLOS register entry
  9. 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.

Coleman Point rises to 6,892 feet in the Fremont National Forest in Lake County, Oregon, about 17 miles east-northeast of Bly.1,2 Before a proper cab, the summit held a crow's nest platform in the 1930s.1 In 1934 a 10-by-10 L-5 lookout cabin went up there, and panorama photographs of the view were taken in August 1936.3

By 1948 the building had stood idle for some years. That year it went to Fitzwater Point, another former lookout site, and was put back together there the following year.3,4

The sources do not agree on the move. The Coleman Point register and the Oregon Lookouts page both give 1948 for the move, while the Fitzwater Point register dates the cab's arrival there to 1949.1,3,4 The Coleman Point register says the cab remained at Fitzwater Point until 1967, and the Fitzwater Point register says it was gone by then.1,4

The register lists Coleman Point among its former fire lookout sites.1 No source describes what, if anything, remains on the ridge today, and none records whether the site is open to visitors.

  1. Coleman Point Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, Forest Fire Lookout Association, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/coleman-point-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Coleman Point Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/colemanpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Coleman Point, Forest Lookouts Oregon, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/coleman-point.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Fitzwater Point Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, Forest Fire Lookout Association, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/fitzwater-point-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Coleman Point 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, 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: what it is built of, design, 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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