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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Walker Point Lookout Site (Eastern Lane FPA)

Also known as Walker Point, Walker Point (East)

Oregon Department of Forestry lookout site 19 miles east of Springfield, Lane County: a 35-foot L-5 tower built 1942 replaced a 1930s cabin; abandoned in the 1950s and gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned in the 1950s; the register and firelookout.com both list the site as gone

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

Access unknown

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower35-foot tower with an L-5 cab (1942), replacing a cabin from the 1930sThe design: L-5
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1930
Height
35 ft (10.7 m)
Elevation
3,812 ft (1,162 m)
Agency
Oregon Department of Forestry (Eastern Lane district)
Land
Unknown
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
44.05956, −122.62090
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-walker-point-eastern-lane-fpa

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1930 Built'Built' field on FFLOS detail pageSource: FFLOS register entry
  2. 1940 EventForest Log item quoted on the Rex page: a telephone line to be extended to reach an emergency lookout in Section 30, T17S R2E; the Rex page files it under Walker Point (East)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. 1942 Built35-foot tower with an L-5 cab replaced the 1930s cabinSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  4. 1950 AbandonedRegister and firelookout.com give only the decade: abandoned in the 1950sSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com
  5. No record between 1950 and 2019
  6. 2019 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterDate registered per FFLOS detail page: November 18, 2019Source: FFLOS register entry
  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.

Walker Point, on the Eastern Lane district of the Oregon Department of Forestry, sits about 19 miles east of Springfield in Lane County.1,2,3

According to the register, the site first held a cabin, built at some point in the 1930s.1 In 1942 a 35-foot tower topped with an L-5 cab took its place.1,2 The Rex page lists a 1940 Forest Log item under its Walker Point (East) heading.3 The item says the line would later run on to an emergency lookout in Section 30, Township 17 South, Range 2 East.3

The register and firelookout.com both record the lookout as abandoned during the 1950s and no longer standing.1,2

No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, and none says whether the public can reach it. The register names the Oregon Department of Forestry as administrator, so ask that agency about access before planning a visit.1

  1. Walker Point Lookout Site (Eastern Lane FPA), Former Fire Lookout Sites Register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/or/walker-point-lookout-site-eastern-lane-fpa/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Walker Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/walkerpoint79.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Walker Point (East) - Forest Lookouts (Oregon), https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/walker-point-e.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, register numbers, agency, 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: 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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