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Fire lookout · Marion County, Oregon

Eagle Rock Lookout Site

L-5 cab on Eagle Rock in the Willamette National Forest, built 1933-34 and gone by 1953; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. The cab was gone by 1953. No source describes what is at 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
Ground-level cabL-5 cabThe design: L-5
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
3,682 ft (1,122 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Marion County, Oregon
Coordinates
44.77281, −122.03060 sources disagree
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-eagle-rock

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 EventAugust 8, 1933 Oregon Statesman item says the first little cabin will be built on Eagle Rock; panorama photographs taken October 2, 1933 (Rex's page)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1934 BuiltFFLOS and firelookout.com date the L-5 cab to 1934Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  3. No record between 1934 and 1953
  4. 1953 RemovedGone by 1953; neither source gives an exact removal dateSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  5. No record between 1953 and 2010
  6. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered August 18, 2010Source: firetower.org
  7. 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 Forest Service built an L-5 cab on Eagle Rock in the Willamette National Forest.1,2 An August 1933 item in The Oregon Statesman said the first little cabin would be built on the point, which is familiar to people who go to Breitenbush and can be plainly seen from the road.3

The register and firelookout.com both date the cab to 1934.1,2 Rex's page also records panorama photographs taken on October 2, 1933, so the build year is uncertain.3

The cab was gone by 1953, according to the register and firelookout.com.1,2

None of these pages describes what, if anything, remains of the lookout today.1,2,3 The register includes a 2016 photograph of the site, credited to Howard Verschoor, but its caption gives no detail.1 The sources do not say whether the site is open to the public, so check with the Willamette National Forest before going.

  1. Eagle Rock Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, Forest Fire Lookout Association, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/eagle-rock-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Eagle Rock Fire Lookout Cabin, Firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/eaglerock.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Eagle Rock, Forest Lookouts (Rex's Fire Lookout Page), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/eagle-rock.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Eagle Rock Lookout 1949
Eagle Rock Lookout 1949 (1949)Photo: Ron Kemnow collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Eagle Rock Lookout 1937 - 1953
Eagle Rock Lookout 1937 - 1953 (1937)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Eagle Rock Lookout site 2016
Eagle Rock Lookout site 2016 (2016)Photo: Howard Verschoor, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on the location by 1.2 km (0.7 mi).

    • FFLOS: 44.77281, −122.03060
    • FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites): 44.77720, −122.04450

    The map uses the position from FFLOS.

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, 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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