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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Rujada (Rose) Hill Lookout Site

Also known as Rujada Point

40-foot L-5 lookout on Rujada Point, Lane County, OR, completed 1934; removed about 1960 or destroyed (sources differ); no site description found.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Removed about 1960 per one source; other sources say abandoned and destroyed

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 towerL-5The design: L-5
Built of
Wood
Built
1934
Height
40 ft (12.2 m)
Elevation
2,980 ft (908 m)
Agency
Umpqua National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.69434, −122.73234
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-rujada-rose-hill

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 EventRoseburg Chieftain item dated September 14, 1933: CCC to build a 10x10 lookout before the first snow; 10x10 called the standard size for secondary lookoutsSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1934 Built40-foot round fir pole tower with a 10x10 L-5 cab completedSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. No record between 1934 and 1960
  4. 1960 RemovedAbout 1960 per the Oregon lookouts page; the register says abandoned and removed, firelookout.com says abandoned and destroyed (no year given)Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. No record between 1960 and 2011
  6. 2011 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered March 28, 2011Source: 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.

Rujada Point, also called Rose Hill, is a former lookout site on a minor summit about a mile to the west-northwest of Rose Hill in Lane County, Oregon.1,2 It sits about 14 miles west-southwest of Oakridge, and the Umpqua National Forest is the agency listed for it.2,3

In August 1933 an item in The Sentinel, as quoted on the Oregon lookouts page, said material had arrived and work was about to begin, and that timber had been felled to open the view.3 A September 14, 1933 item in the Roseburg Chieftain said the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was to build a 10x10 lookout before the first snow, and that size was the norm for secondary lookouts.3

By 1934 the site carried a 40-foot tower of round fir poles, topped with a 10x10 L-5 cab.1,3 Panoramic photographs were made there in February 1934 and retaken in July 1937.3

Sources disagree on how the tower ended. The Former Fire Lookout Sites register says it was abandoned and removed, while firelookout.com says it was abandoned and destroyed.1,2 The Oregon lookouts page dates its removal to about 1960.3

The site was registered with the Former Fire Lookout Sites register on March 28, 2011.1

No source we checked describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether visitors can reach it.

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

Photos

Photo of Rujada (Rose) Hill Lookout Site
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, 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, 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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