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Fire lookout · Monroe County, Pennsylvania

Snow Hill Tower Site

Monroe County, PA lookout whose steel tower was moved to Dancing Ridge in 1935; a 2004 visit found only footings there, and no source describes Snow Hill today.

Approximate location

No source gives where this lookout stood, so the map shows it on Snow Hill, the one summit of that name in Monroe County, Pennsylvania in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. The lookout may have stood on it or nearby. Know where it stood? Suggest an edit.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Tower gone from Snow Hill; no source describes what remains at the site today

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 towerSteel Blaw-Knox tower, as recorded for the Dancing Ridge site after the moveThe design: Blaw-Knox
Built of
Not recorded
Built
Unknown
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Unknown
Land
Unknown
Location
Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Coordinates
41.15843, −75.19240Approximate: placed on Snow Hill (a summit), from USGS GNIS. No source gives where it stood.
This entry
UnverifiedFrom a single source and not yet checked. Details may be wrong. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-pa-snow-hill

View from the cab

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From an approximate location

This view, and what it could see, are worked out from Snow Hill, where the map places the lookout, not from a recorded site. The real view may differ.

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History

Then and now

  1. 1935 MovedSteel tower moved from Snow Hill and renamed Dancing RidgeSources: firetower.org, firetower.org
  2. No record between 1935 and 1975
  3. 1975 RemovedDancing Ridge register entry gives removal in 1975; a photo caption refers to tower remains in 2000Source: firetower.org
  4. No record between 1975 and 2004
  5. 2004 EventVisit report at Dancing Ridge: no tower standing, only concrete footings and possibly a platformSource: thesurveystation.com
  6. 2008 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 16, 2008Source: 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 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Snow Hill was a lookout in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.1,2 The Former Fire Lookout Sites register gives its registry numbers as US 488 and PA 317.1

The register says the site's first tower stood on a building.1 A wooden tower came next, and then a steel one.1 In 1935 the steel tower was relocated and given the name Dancing Ridge.1

A separate register entry for Dancing Ridge describes a steel Blaw-Knox tower that came from Snow Hill and was taken down in 1975, and it dates the tower's construction to 1935.3 We read the 1935 date as the year the tower moved, although that entry uses the word "constructed."1,3 The same entry carries a photo caption that refers to tower remains in 2000, which does not sit easily with the 1975 removal date.3

A 2004 visit report, posted on a survey-marker site, found no tower standing at Dancing Ridge. It found only concrete footings and what may have been a platform at the base of the stairs.4 That report concerns Dancing Ridge, not the Snow Hill site.4

We found no source that describes what, if anything, remains at the Snow Hill site today, or whether the public may visit it.1,3

  1. Snow Hill Tower Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/pa/snow-hill-tower-site/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Snow Hill, Forest Lookouts, https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/snow-hill.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Dancing Ridge Tower Site II, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/pa/dancing-ridge-tower-site-ii/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Ly2684 Dancing Ridge Fire Tower, Zhanna's SurveyStation, https://thesurveystation.com/surveymarks/ly2684/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, county, type, status, register numbers, 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 LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: links easternuslookouts.weebly.com · No licence stated; facts only (county, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, status, height, design hints, register links). The site's own historical quotes, newspaper citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, 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
  4. USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Gave us: an approximate location, on Snow Hill (a summit) USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) · Public domain

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