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Holland Point Lookout Site

Umpqua NF lookout in Lane County, Oregon: a pole L-4 tower built in 1933 and later listed as gone; sources give its height as 30, 40 or 43 feet.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. The register and firelookout.com both list the tower as gone; neither gives a removal date

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
Cab on a towerRound fir pole tower with an L-4 model 1931 cab (Rex's page); the register and firelookout.com call it a 30-foot pole L-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1933
Height
43 ft (13.1 m)
Elevation
5,048 ft (1,539 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service (Umpqua National Forest)
Land
Federal land
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.66374, −122.57650
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-holland-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 BuiltBuilt in 1933 per the register and firelookout.com; Rex's page describes the new tower as 43 feet with an L-4 model 1931 cab, and a September 1933 item said the CCC would build a 14x14 lookoutSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com, firelookout.com
  2. 1934 EventPanorama photos taken by James Rittenhouse on March 12, 1934Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1938 EventDistrict Ranger Brown inspected the tower and house on July 20, 1938; the letter says the sway made the fire finder impossible to keep level and recommends replacing the cable braces with pole bracesSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1940 AlteredRing-connected pole braces addedSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1940 and 2011
  6. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: February 10, 2011Source: FFLOS register entry
  7. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Holland Point, in the Umpqua National Forest about 8 miles southwest of Oakridge in Lane County, got its lookout in 1933.1,2 A September 1933 Roseburg Chieftain item, quoted on Rex's page, said the CCC would build a 14-by-14 lookout before the snow flew.3 The same page describes the finished tower as a round fir pole structure with an L-4 model 1931 cab. Building it took 125 man-days, and getting the materials in required a 12-mile pack haul.3

The sources disagree on the height. The register and firelookout.com both give 30 feet,1,2 a July 1938 inspection letter says 40 feet,3 and Rex's 1933 description says 43 feet.3

That July, District Ranger Brown visited the tower and house and wrote that the sway made the fire finder impossible to keep level.3 The letter said the lookout could do very little of the needed repair work alone.3 Ring-connected pole braces were added in 1940.3

The register and firelookout.com both describe the tower as gone.1,2

The register has a 2007 photo captioned as the site, but no source we read describes what is there now.1

  1. Holland Point Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/holland-point-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Holland Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/hollandpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Holland Point - Forest Lookouts, Rex's Fire Lookout Page (Oregon), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/holland-point.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Holland Point Lookout 1933
Holland Point Lookout 1933 (1933)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Holland Point Lookout 1940
Holland Point Lookout 1940 (1940)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Holland Point Lookout site 2007
Holland Point Lookout site 2007 (2007)Photo: Ron Kemnow, 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, 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, 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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