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Fire lookout · Curry County, Oregon

Game Lake Peak

Siskiyou NF lookout east of Gold Beach, Curry County: 1934 L-4 cab, staffed 105 days in 1941, abandoned 1942 per one source, removal undated.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Forest Lookouts marks it removed with no date; firelookout.com says abandoned in 1942; the Oregon list marks it gone

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-4 cab (firelookout.com calls the building a cabin)The design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Siskiyou National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Curry County, Oregon
Coordinates
42.43048, −124.09236
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-game-lake-peak

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1914 EventSiskiyou National Forest station record (L Stations) dated February 11, 1914: site near the summit already used as a stop-over and expected to be useful as a lookout after improvementSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1914 and 1934
  3. 1934 BuiltL-4 cab per firelookout.com; Forest Lookouts records a lookout constructed in 1934Sources: firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1940 EventSiskiyou National Forest guard placement plan dated May 1940 cites fire danger nearly as severe as at AgnessSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1941 StaffedLookout staffed 105 days; reported to the Agness Ranger Station by radioSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1942 Abandonedfirelookout.com gives Abandoned 1942Source: firelookout.com
  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 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Game Lake Peak lookout stood in the Siskiyou National Forest, about 15 miles east of Gold Beach in Curry County, Oregon.1,2

A Siskiyou National Forest station record dated February 11, 1914, quoted by Forest Lookouts, describes the summit site as already serving as a stop-over. The writer thought it would make a useful lookout after upgrades.2

A lookout was built in 1934. Firelookout.com gives it an L-4 cab and calls the building a cabin.1 Forest Lookouts also records a lookout constructed that year.2

A May 1940 Siskiyou National Forest guard placement plan judged fire danger in the area it covered almost as high as at Agness.2 In 1941 the lookout was staffed for 105 days and reported to the Agness Ranger Station by radio.2 We found no staffing record after that year.

Firelookout.com says the lookout was abandoned in 1942.1 Forest Lookouts marks the site as removed but gives no date.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Oregon list classes the site as "Ground" and marks it gone.3

No source we read describes what remains on the ground at Game Lake Peak, or whether the public can reach it. Both sources place the site in national forest land, so the forest office is the place to ask about access.1,2

  1. Game Lake Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/gamelakepeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Game Lake Peak, Forest Lookouts (western US), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/game-lake-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Oregon Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/or/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. 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
  3. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: agency, ownership, 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
  4. 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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