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Grasshopper Point Lookout Site

Wasco County lookout: L-6 tower built 1933, deactivated 1964, gone by 1967-69; only a couple of concrete pedestals remain, per a hiking guide.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower gone by 1967-1969 depending on source (burned, removed or destroyed); only a couple of concrete pedestals remain per a hiking guide

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent. You may still be able to visit the site.

Access

Open to the public. On Mount Hood National Forest land; the hiking guide describes a walk from the site to a knoll with a Mount Hood view. No closure or private status appears in the sources

Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
The site has no views; a walk north along the ridge on an old road track reaches a knoll cleared for a view of Mount Hood

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerL-6 cab on a treated timber towerThe design: L-6
Built of
Wood
Built
1933
Height
84 ft (25.6 m)
Elevation
5,385 ft (1,641 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service, Mount Hood National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Wasco County, Oregon
Coordinates
45.25226, −121.53594
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-grasshopper-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 Built72-ft timber tower with L-6 cab, about $475 and 800 man-hours (Forest Lookouts); FFLOS and firelookout.com give 84 ft, built in the 1930sSources: oregonlookouts.weebly.com, firetower.org, firelookout.com
  2. 1934 RebuiltTower blown over in winter 1933-34 and re-erected in 1934Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1945 StaffedStaffed for one day by Ed Neubauer of the Trails Club of OregonSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1945 and 1964
  5. 1964 ClosedStation deactivatedSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1967 BurnedUn-needed tower disposed of by burning (Forest Lookouts); hiking guide dates the tower to 1933-1967Sources: oregonlookouts.weebly.com, oregonhikers.org
  7. 1969 RemovedFFLOS says removed about 1969; firelookout.com says destroyed about 1969Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  8. No record between 1969 and 2010
  9. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered on the Former Fire Lookout Sites registerSource: firetower.org
  10. 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.

Grasshopper Point is a gently sloping prominence on a ridge in Wasco County, Oregon, inside the Mount Hood National Forest.1,2,3 The site sits at 5,385 feet.2

The first tower went up in 1933. It was a 72-foot timber tower with an L-6 cab, which cost about $475 and took 800 man-hours to build, according to the Forest Lookouts history.3 The registry and firelookout.com give the tower a height of 84 feet and a 1930s build date.2,4 The hiking guide also gives 84 feet.1

That winter the tower blew over, and it was re-erected in 1934.3 The station was staffed for one day in 1945, by Ed Neubauer of the Trails Club of Oregon.3 It was deactivated in 1964.3

The Forest Lookouts page says the unneeded tower was disposed of by burning in 1967, and the hiking guide dates the tower to between 1933 and 1967.3,1 The registry and firelookout.com put its removal or destruction at about 1969.2,4

The Oregon Hikers field guide has no date on the copy we read, but it is the only account we found of what remains on the ground. It says little is left beyond a couple of concrete pedestals.1 There are no views from the point itself.1 A walk north along the ridge on an old road track reaches a knoll where trees have been cleared for a view of Mount Hood.1

  1. Grasshopper Point, Oregon Hikers field guide, https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Grasshopper_Point (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Grasshopper Point Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/grasshopper-point-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Grasshopper Point - Forest Lookouts, Rex's Fire Lookout Page, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/grasshopper-point.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Grasshopper Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/grasshopper.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Grasshopper Point Lookout Site
Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Circa 1961 photo from Dennis Lynch, former District Forester
Circa 1961 photo from Dennis Lynch, former District Forester (1961)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: design, height, 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, access, visiting details, 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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