Fire lookout · Hood River County, Oregon
Twin Pines Lookout Site
Hood River County, Oregon, ODF lookout: 1931 tent camp, wooden tower and cabin by 1933-34, gone by 1945 or the 1950s. No source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.
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
- Type
- Cab on a tower20-foot wooden L-4 tower with a log cabinThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Wood
- Built
- 1933
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- 2,642 ft (805 m)
- Agency
- Oregon Department of Forestry
- Land
- Federal land
- Location
- Hood River County, Oregon
- Coordinates
- 45.58737, −121.59826
- Registers
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-or-twin-pines
View from the cab
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History
Then and now
- 1931 EventTent camp with a phone (register). firelookout.com also gives 1931 for a camp.Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
- 1933 BuiltWooden tower and log cabin, per firelookout.com. The register dates the replacement to 1934.Sources: firelookout.com, firetower.org
- 1945 RemovedRegister says gone by 1945. firelookout.com says gone in the 1950s.Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
- No record between 1945 and 2010
- 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: September 21, 2010Source: FFLOS register entry
- 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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
Twin Pines was a lookout nine miles south of Hood River, in Hood River County, Oregon.1,2 The register and firelookout.com both name the Oregon Department of Forestry as the agency.2,1 Forest Lookouts lists the site under the Mt Hood National Forest instead, so the sources disagree about who ran it.3
In 1931 a tent camp equipped with a phone occupied the site.2 The register dates the replacement of that camp, a wooden tower with a log cabin, to 1934.2 firelookout.com gives 1933 instead, for a 20-foot wooden L-4 tower with a log cabin.1 A photo captioned 1933 and a panorama dated November 10, 1933 suggest a lookout stood on the site by then, which fits firelookout.com's date better than the register's.2,3
The register says it was no longer there by 1945.2 firelookout.com dates its removal to the 1950s.1 A photo on the register page is captioned 1944, which places the lookout on the site that year.2 Forest Lookouts marks it as removed, with no date.3
No source I read describes what remains on the site today, or whether the public can reach it.2,1,3
- Twin Pines Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/twinpines.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Twin Pines Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites (firetower.org), http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/twin-pines-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Twin Pines, Forest Lookouts (oregonlookouts.weebly.com), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/twin-pines.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
Photos
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Sources
- Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, 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
- Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists (opens another site) 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
- firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page (opens another site) 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
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) (opens another site) Gave us: ownership, 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
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- FFLOS register entry US 656 (firetower.org) (opens another site)
- FFLA Oregon lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Twin Pines on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
- Twin Pines on Forest Lookouts, western US (Ron Kemnow) (opens another site)
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