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Frazier Mountain Lookout Site

Oregon Dept. of Forestry cab on Frazier Mountain, Union County, built 1953; register says now gone, other pages say sold and moved to a private cabin.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. The register says the cab is now gone; two other pages say a private buyer took it and moved it.

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
Ground-level cabR-6 cab on a spur ridge northeast of the summitThe design: R-6
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1953
Height
Unknown
Elevation
5,444 ft (1,659 m)
Agency
Oregon Department of Forestry
Land
Unknown
Location
Union County, Oregon
Coordinates
45.07619, −117.69498
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-frazier-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1953 BuiltCab built on a spur ridge northeast of the summit (R-6 cab per Forest Fire Lookout Association)Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1953 and 2011
  3. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered July 27, 2011 as US 1119, OR 475Source: firetower.org
  4. 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.

Frazier Mountain in Union County held a cab rather than a full tower.1,2 The Former Fire Lookout Sites register says the cab was built in 1953 on a spur ridge northeast of the summit, and it lists the Oregon Department of Forestry as administrator.1 The cab was used for emergencies in the 1970s.1

The sources part ways on what happened next. The register says the cab is now gone.1 A Rex's Fire Lookout Page entry says a private party bought it and moved it.3 The Forest Fire Lookout Association says it was sold and taken away, and now serves as a private cabin roughly 20 miles southeast of Joseph.2

The association's Oregon list records the site as a ground site that is gone.4 No source describes what, if anything, remains there, or whether the spot is open to visitors. The site sits at 5,444 feet (1,659 m), about 23 miles north-northeast of Baker City.1,2

  1. Frazier Mountain Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/frazier-mountain-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Frazier Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://www.firelookout.com/or/fraziermtn.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Frazier Mountain, Rex's Fire Lookout Page (Forest Lookouts), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/frazier-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Oregon Fire Lookouts list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/or/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Frazier Mountain Lookout 1963
Frazier Mountain Lookout 1963 (1963)Photo: Jerry Goldemeister collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Frazier Mountain Lookout site 1999
Frazier Mountain Lookout site 1999 (1999)Photo: Rex Kamstra, 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, register numbers, agency, 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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