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Fire lookout · Jackson County, Oregon

Huckleberrry (Shasta) Lookout Site

Also known as Huckleberry Mountain

Rogue River NF lookout, Jackson County, OR: 1929 crow's nest, 1934 50-ft L-6 tower; removed or destroyed about 1960; crow's nest claim unconfirmed.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower removed or destroyed about 1960; firelookout.com says the 1929 crow's nest was still there, which no other source confirms

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 sources disagree
Type
Cab on a tower50-foot pole L-6 tower with cabin, replacing a 1929 crow's nest and campThe design: L-6
Built of
Wood
Built
1929
Height
50 ft (15.2 m)
Elevation
6,281 ft (1,914 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service, Rogue River National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Jackson County, Oregon
Coordinates
42.85178, −122.31415 sources disagree
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-huckleberrry-shasta

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History

Then and now

  1. 1928 EventRanger Elgan selected the lookout site (Carroll E. Brown, History of the Rogue River National Forest, as quoted by Forest Lookouts)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1929 BuiltCrow's nest and camp set up on the siteSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  3. 1934 Replaced by a new structure50-foot pole L-6 tower and cabin replaced the crow's nest and campSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1936 StaffedJack Crump had charge of the lookout and guard station (Medford Mail Tribune, October 30, 1936)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1941 StaffedClyde Onn transferred from Hershberger Mountain lookout to Huckleberry Mountain lookout (Medford Mail Tribune, July 22, 1941)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1950 StaffedGeorge Brown family planned to spend the summer on the Forest Service lookout (Medford Mail Tribune, July 2, 1950)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. 1960 RemovedTower removed (register) or destroyed (firelookout.com, Forest Lookouts) about 1960Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  8. No record between 1960 and 2011
  9. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered March 19, 2011 as US 861, OR 228Source: 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.

Huckleberry (Shasta) Mountain sits in Jackson County, Oregon, about nine miles southwest of Crater Lake, in the Rogue River National Forest.1,2

Ranger Elgan selected the site in 1928.3 A crow's nest and a camp went up there in 1929.1 In 1934 a 50-foot pole L-6 tower and a cabin replaced the crow's nest.1,2 Forest Lookouts describes that tower as round timber with a small cab and no catwalk.3

A 1936 Medford Mail Tribune item says Jack Crump was in charge of the lookout and guard station.3 In July 1941 Clyde Onn moved to Huckleberry Mountain from Hershberger Mountain, where he had spent nine years as lookout.3 In 1950 the George Brown family planned a summer stay at the Forest Service lookout.3

The register records the lookout's removal at about 1960.1 Firelookout.com and Forest Lookouts say it was destroyed around that year.2,3 The dates agree, but the wording does not.

Firelookout.com says the 1929 crow's nest was still there, even though the same page says the tower was destroyed in 1960.2 We could not confirm that claim from another source. No source we read describes what stands at the site today or whether visitors can reach it, so do not count on seeing anything there.

  1. Huckleberrry (Shasta) Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/huckleberrry-shasta-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Huckleberry (Shasta) Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/huckleberryshasta.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Huckleberry Mountain - Forest Lookouts, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/huckleberry-mountain1.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Huckleberrry Mountain Lookout 1942
Huckleberrry Mountain Lookout 1942 (1942)Photo: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Huckleberrry Mountain Lookout
Huckleberrry Mountain LookoutPhoto: Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on the location by 630 m.

    • FFLOS: 42.85178, −122.31415
    • FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites): 42.84610, −122.31370

    The map uses the position from FFLOS.

  • Sources disagree on whether it still stands.

    • FFLA: Gone
    • FFLOS: Gone
    • firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page: Standing

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: design, height, dates, 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: 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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