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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

June (Adams) Mountain Lookout Site

Also known as Mount June

Umpqua NF summit in Lane County, OR: a 1920s pole platform, then a 1949 L-4 tower removed in 1967; the Forest Service says the stone foundation remains.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower removed or destroyed in 1967; the Forest Service says the stone foundation remains on the summit

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. Reached by the Forest Service Mount June Trail, a hiking route that links to the Sawtooth Trail

Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
Hike the Mount June Trail to the summit, where the stone foundation of the old lookout remains

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower30-foot wooden tower with an L-4 cab (1949), after a 1934 cabin and a 1920s 50-foot pole platformThe design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1920
Height
30 ft (9.1 m)
Elevation
4,616 ft (1,407 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service (Umpqua National Forest)
Land
Federal land
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.79110, −122.72426
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-june-adams-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1920 BuiltPlaceholder year for the 1920s: sources give only the decade for the 50-foot pole platformSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  2. 1925 EventLate-1925 newspaper items (26 Nov and 4 Dec) said the peak would probably be designated a forest fire lookout pointSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1934 BuiltCabin quarters, an L-4 hip-roofed lookout house, built on the summitSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. No record between 1934 and 1949
  5. 1949 Replaced by a new structureCabin quarters replaced by a 30-foot wooden tower with an L-4 cab; the Forest Service trail page says 50 feetSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1962 EventClassed as an emergency station in an August 1962 News-Review item quoted on the Oregon lookouts pageSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. 1967 RemovedRegister and Oregon lookouts page say removed; firelookout.com says destroyed; Forest Service says all structures abandoned and destroyedSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  8. No record between 1967 and 2011
  9. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: March 24, 2011Source: FFLOS register entry
  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.

Mount June stands in the Umpqua National Forest in Lane County, Oregon.1,2 Its first lookout was a 50-foot pole platform, put up in the 1920s.1,2 Newspapers in late 1925 said the peak would probably become a forest fire lookout point.3 A cabin went up in 1934, and in 1949 a 30-foot wooden tower with an L-4 cab replaced the cabin quarters.1,2,3,4 The Forest Service's trail page says the tower that replaced the pole platform was 50 feet tall, so the height is one point where the sources disagree.5

In August 1962 the News-Review, quoted on the Oregon lookouts page, classed June Mountain as an emergency station.3

The tower came down in 1967.1,2,3 The register and the Oregon lookouts page say it was removed, while firelookout.com says it was destroyed.1,2,3 A hiking group gives the reasons as better fire detection and shrinking maintenance budgets.4

The Forest Service's Mount June Trail climbs to the summit and links to the Sawtooth Trail.5 The agency says the structures were abandoned and destroyed, but a stone base is still on the summit, and visitors stand on those ruins when they get there.5 The route is a hiking trail on national forest land, so the summit is reached on foot, and no tower is left to climb.5

  1. June (Adams) Mountain Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/june-adams-mountain-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Mt. June Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/mtjune.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Mount June, Forest Lookouts (Oregon), Rex's Fire Lookout Page, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/mount-june.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Mount June, Friends of the Umpqua Hiking Group, https://www.friendsoftheumpqua.org/tag/mount-june/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  5. Mount June Trail, U.S. Forest Service, Umpqua National Forest, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/umpqua/recreation/trails/mount-june-trail (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, ownership, dates, 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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