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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Mount Hagen Lookout Site

Also known as Mount Hagan

Peak in Lane County, OR, Willamette NF: a 1933 tree-platform lookout, a 1955 tower, dismantled by 1979; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower gone by 1979 (dismantled and salvaged, per Forest Lookouts); no source describes what remains on the site today

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
Cab on a towerTree platform with L-5 ground cab (1933), replaced by an L-4 tower (1955)The designs: L-4, L-5
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1933
Height
24 ft (7.3 m)
Elevation
3,330 ft (1,015 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service, Willamette National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
44.13882, −122.41046
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-mount-hagen

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 BuiltTree platform with L-5 ground cab living quartersSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  2. No record between 1933 and 1953
  3. 1953 AlteredEight miles of road replaced the walk-in trail to the lookoutSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1955 Replaced by a new structureCab replaced by a tower; register and firelookout.com say 25 ft, Forest Lookouts says 24 ftSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1955 and 1979
  6. 1979 RemovedGone by 1979; Forest Lookouts says dismantled and salvagedSources: firetower.org, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. No record between 1979 and 2011
  8. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered May 7, 2011 as US 960, OR 318Source: firetower.org
  9. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Mount Hagen, also spelled Hagan, is in the Willamette National Forest, about 12 miles west of McKenzie Bridge in Lane County, Oregon.1,2,3 The register lists the U.S. Forest Service as the administrator.1 The first lookout, dated to 1933, combined a tree platform with an L-5 cab set on the ground for living quarters.1,2 A September 1933 item from the Eugene Guard, quoted by the Forest Lookouts history, says a crew was then building a trail to the peak and a lookout house on it.3

In 1953, eight miles of road replaced the old walk-in trail to the lookout.3 The cab was replaced in 1955 by a tower.1,2,3 The sources disagree on its height. The register and firelookout.com give 25 feet, while the Forest Lookouts history gives 24 feet.1,2,3

The register says the tower was gone by 1979. The Forest Lookouts history says it was dismantled and salvaged that year.1,3 The firelookout.com heading gives the lookout's dates as 1933 to 1955, but the same page says the tower was gone by 1979.2

The register added the site on May 7, 2011, as US 960, OR 318.1 We found no source that describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the public can reach it.

  1. Mount Hagen Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/mount-hagen-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Mt. Hagen Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/hagen.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Mount Hagan, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/mount-hagan.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Mount Hagen Lookout Site
Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
1933
1933 (1933)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: 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, 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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