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Fire lookout · Lane County, Oregon

Wolf Point

Lane County, OR lookout listed under the ODF Western Lane district: 40-ft tower with lookout house from 1949, station burned early 1972, 35-ft Aermotor tower erected 1972; now gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Firelookout.com and the FFLA index both list it as gone; no source describes what remains

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 tower35-ft steel Aermotor tower with 7x7 cab (erected 1972); earlier 40-ft tower with 14x14 lookout house (1949)The design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1949
Height
35 ft (10.7 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Oregon Department of Forestry, Western Lane district (Western Lane FPA)
Land
Unknown
Location
Lane County, Oregon
Coordinates
43.89168, −123.32841
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-or-wolf-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1949 BuiltConstruction began on a 14x14 standard lookout house on a 40-foot tower; materials cost $1,137.22Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1950 Event1950 report to the Oregon Department of Forestry gives the total cost of the improvement as $2,955.61Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  3. No record between 1950 and 1969
  4. 1969 Replaced by a new structurePortable tower under construction to replace the old tower; cabin to be stored at headquarters in winter; small trailer house for living quartersSource: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1972 Built35-foot steel Aermotor tower with 7x7 cab erected, with trailer houseSources: firelookout.com, oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  6. 1972 BurnedWolf Point lookout station burned to the ground during the winter; cause under investigation (Forest Log, January 1972)Source: oregonlookouts.weebly.com
  7. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Wolf Point was a lookout in Lane County, Oregon, about 16 miles southwest of Eugene, at an elevation of 1,716 feet.1 The Forest Lookouts site files it under the Western Lane district of the Oregon Department of Forestry.2

Work began in 1949 on a 14-by-14-foot lookout house on a 40-foot tower.2 The firelookout.com listing describes that tower as a wooden one.1 A 1950 report to the state gave the total cost of the improvement as $2,955.61.2

In 1969 a replacement was under way.2 It was a portable tower whose cabin would be taken to headquarters for winter storage, which was meant to limit weather wear and vandalism.2 A small trailer house would provide the living quarters.2

In January 1972 the Forest Log reported that the Wolf Point lookout station had burned to the ground that winter, and that the cause was under investigation.2 In 1972 a 35-foot steel Aermotor tower with a 7-by-7-foot cab was erected, with the trailer house.1,2

Both lists mark Wolf Point as gone.1,3 No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today. None says whether the site is open to the public, so treat access as unknown.

  1. Wolf Point Fire Lookout, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/or/wolfpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Wolf Point, Forest Lookouts, https://oregonlookouts.weebly.com/wolf-point.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Oregon Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/or/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. 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
  3. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: what it is built of, 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
  4. 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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