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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Rebel Rock Lookout Site

Lane County, OR L-4 ground cab built 1955 in the Three Sisters Wilderness; unused by 1967 and lost in the 2017 Rebel Fire. Site today not described.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Burned in the 2017 Rebel Fire

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 cabL-4 ground cab, built 1955 in a saddle about one mile southwest of the summitThe design: L-4
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1955
Height
Unknown
Elevation
5,060 ft (1,542 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.98289, −122.12666
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-rebel-rock

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1955 BuiltL-4 cab built on the siteSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1967 AbandonedDescribed as the only other unused lookout on its district in a September 1967 memo; FFLOS says abandoned in the 1960sSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. No record between 1967 and 2017
  4. 2017 BurnedLost in the Rebel Fire, September 2017Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.org, firelookout.com
  5. 2017 Removed'Removed' field on FFLOS detail page: "2017".Source: FFLOS register entry
  6. 2019 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered October 30, 2019 as US 1771, OR 511Source: firetower.org
  7. 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.

Rebel Rock was a lookout site in a saddle about a mile southwest of the summit, in the Three Sisters Wilderness.1 The site lies in the Willamette National Forest in Lane County.2

An L-4 ground cab went up there in 1955.2,1,3 A September 1967 memo quoted on the Weebly page counts Rebel Rock as one of two unused lookouts on its district and says it was in very good condition.3

A 1949 Eugene Guard item, quoted on the same page, mentions Rebel Rock lookout in connection with slides shown at a Forest Service banquet, which would predate the 1955 build date.3 None of the pages read explains that earlier reference.3

The 2017 Oregon chapter report says Rebel Rock was lost in the Rebel Fire.4 The Former Fire Lookout Sites Register says the lookout burned in the Rebel Fire in 2017, and firelookout.com says the cab had stood abandoned since the 1960s before the fire.2,1

The Weebly page dates the loss of the structure to September 2017, when a wildfire destroyed it.3 None of the pages read describes what, if anything, remains at the saddle today, or whether visitors can reach it, so this story does not guess.2

  1. Rebel Rock Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/rebelrock.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Rebel Rock Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/rebel-rock-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Rebel Rock - Forest Lookouts, Oregon Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/rebel-rock.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Forest Fire Lookout Association Oregon Chapter report, 2017, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cr-or-2017.pdf (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Rebel Rock Lookout 1990
Rebel Rock Lookout 1990 (1990)Photo: Doug Newman photo, Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Rebel Rock Lookout
Rebel Rock LookoutPhoto: C. Irish, Howard Verschoor collection, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Rebel Rock Lookout 2014
Rebel Rock Lookout 2014 (2014)Photo: Ian MacDonald, Howard Verschoor collection, 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, 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 Fire Lookout Association chapter reports Gave us: dates, links Forest Fire Lookout Association, chapter and restoration-grant reports (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts only (dates, names, the kind of work done). Every note is our own wording and every event links to the FFLA report it comes from. Positions are copied from the NHLR, FFLOS and FFLA records. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  5. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: what it is built of, design, 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
  6. 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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