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Fire lookout · Clatsop County, Oregon

Green Mountain Lookout Site (Clatsop County)

Also known as Green Mountain

Clatsop County, OR lookout: 1920s wooden tower, 1934 replacement, abandoned 1964; a 1986 visit found the tower on the ground; listed as gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned 1964; a 1986 visit found the tower broken up on the ground; both registers list it as gone; no description after 1986 found

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 cab1957 tower: 65-ft wood tower with 7x7 Amort cab; 1934 tower: 83-ft treated timber with 7x7 L-6 cab (register; Forest Log says 75 ft)The designs: L-6, L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
65 ft (19.8 m)
Elevation
2,493 ft (760 m)
Agency
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
Land
Unknown
Location
Clatsop County, Oregon
Coordinates
45.87692, −123.39802
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-green-mountain-clatsop-county

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 BuiltForest Log (Sept 1934) reports a new 75-ft station with attendant quarters; the register says an 83-ft timber tower replaced the earlier 1920s towerSources: oregonlookouts.weebly.com, firetower.org
  2. 1934 AlteredAfter the 1934 tower went up, the old cabin with attached garage was used for storageSource: firetower.org
  3. 1934 First staffedDonald Kyle put in charge of the new stationSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1934 and 1956
  5. 1956 AlteredInterior and floor repaintedSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1957 Built65-ft wood tower with 7x7 Amort cab erectedSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. 1957 AlteredNew cabin constructed for the lookoutSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  8. 1964 AbandonedAbandoned; both registers list the site as goneSources: firelookout.com, firetower.org
  9. No record between 1964 and 1986
  10. 1986 Condition assessmentVisit found the tower broken up on the ground, most of the cab still on site, tower legs removed, two walls and window frames from the ground cabin, ruins of a cabin nearbySource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  11. No record between 1986 and 2011
  12. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: December 14, 2011Source: FFLOS register entry
  13. 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 Green Mountain lookout stood in Clatsop County, Oregon, about nine miles west of Vernonia.1 The site's original lookout, dating from the 1920s, was a 60-foot wooden tower with a cabin.2 In September 1934 a Forest Log item, quoted by the Forest Lookouts site, described a new station on the mountain: a 75-foot tower with quarters for the attendant.3 The Former Fire Lookout Sites register instead gives the 1934 tower a height of 83 feet, with a 7-by-7-foot cab and a 14-by-14-foot cabin for living quarters.2

Donald Kyle was named to lead the new station.3 The same site notes a 1956 repainting of the interior and floor.3 In 1957 a new 65-foot wooden tower went up, topped by a 7-by-7 Amort cab, and a new cabin was built for the lookout.3

Once the 1934 tower was up, the former cabin, which had an attached garage, served as storage.2 The lookout was abandoned in 1964.1,2 A March 28, 1986 visit found the tower in pieces on the ground.3 Most of the cab remained on site, though the tower's legs had been taken away.3 Two walls and window frames from the 14-by-14 ground cabin lay there too, and the ruins of another cabin stood nearby.3

Both the firelookout.com page and the register list the lookout as gone.1,2 The newest description we found dates from 1986, so no source says what remains on the site today.3 No source says whether the site is open to the public, so check access before going near it.1,2,3

  1. Green Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/greenmtn44a.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Green Mountain Lookout Site (Clatsop County), Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/green-mountain-lookout-site-clatsop-county/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Green Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/green-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Green Mountain Lookout Site (Clatsop County)
Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Groundhouse, 1952
Groundhouse, 1952 (1952)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, 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: 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, 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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