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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Grasshopper Lookout Site

Also known as Grasshopper Mountain

Lane County, OR lookout site: camp 1919, L-5 cab 1933, staffed to 1941, gone by 1968; four concrete footings remain per Oregon Hikers.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Lookout removed by 1968 per FFLOS and Forest Lookouts (Oregon Hikers says last lookout decommissioned in the 1970s); four concrete footings remain at the summit per Oregon Hikers

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. Former lookout site reached by hiking in the Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness, per Oregon Hikers field guide; road access not described

Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
Oregon Hikers lists a 7.3 mi hike with 2,075 ft gain to the former lookout site

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-5 cab on a 10x10 ground house (1933)The design: L-5
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1933
Height
Unknown
Elevation
5,642 ft (1,720 m)
Agency
U.S.Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.90983, −122.19509
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-grasshopper

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1919 EventLookout camp started (FFLOS: starting with a camp in 1919)Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  2. 1933 BuiltL-5 cab built; Forest Lookouts describes a 10x10 L-5 lookout ground house built in 1933Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1938 StaffedGordon Stanley sent to spend the summer as look-out fireman for the Forest Service (Eugene Guard item)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1941 StaffedLookout staffed 85 days; last dated staffing record foundSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1941 and 1958
  6. 1958 EventOregon Hikers: the last lookout on the summit was erected in 1958. Not confirmed by the register or Forest Lookouts.Source: oregonhikers.org
  7. 1968 RemovedFFLOS: gone by 1968. Forest Lookouts: lookout removed 1968. firelookout.com: R.I.P. 1933-1968.Sources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com, firelookout.com
  8. No record between 1968 and 2011
  9. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered May 7, 2011; nominated by Ray KresekSource: 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 Mountain lies in Lane County, about 17 miles northeast of Oakridge.1 A lookout camp was started in 1919, and an L-5 cab was built in 1933.2,1 Forest Lookouts describes the 1933 work as a 10x10 L-5 ground house.3

People staffed the lookout in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1938 Gordon Stanley was sent to spend the summer there as a lookout fireman for the Forest Service, and a 1941 entry says the lookout was staffed for 85 days.3

The structure was gone by 1968, according to the Former Fire Lookout Sites Register and Forest Lookouts.2,3 Oregon Hikers tells a different story. It says the last lookout on the summit was erected in 1958 and decommissioned in the 1970s, so the sources disagree about the final years.4

The sources also disagree about the forest. The register places the site in the Willamette National Forest, while Oregon Hikers places it in the Umpqua National Forest.2,4

Today, Oregon Hikers describes four concrete footings at the summit, which sits inside the Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness.4 Its field guide lists a 7.3-mile hike with 2,075 feet of gain to the former lookout site.4 The register and Forest Lookouts pages say nothing about the site today.2,3

  1. Grasshopper Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/grasshopper78.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Grasshopper Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/grasshopper-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Grasshopper Mountain, Forest Lookouts (Oregon), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/grasshopper-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Grasshopper Mountain Viewpoint, Oregon Hikers Field Guide, https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Grasshopper_Mountain (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Grasshopper 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, 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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