Fire lookout · Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Stony Point Fire Tower
Carbon County, PA tower in Hickory Run State Park; a photo caption says it is fenced off and not climbable, but no build date, builder or design was found.
- Standing
- Closed
- Verified
Closed
The site is closed to visitors. Photo caption: not climbable; a locked, barbed-wire fence surrounds the tower. Caption is undated.
Visit & stay
Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.
Access
Closed. See the warning at the top of this page.
- Can you climb it?
- No
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
- Staffing
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a towerAermotorThe design: Aermotor
- Built of
- SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
- Built
- 1921
- Height
- 47 ft (14.3 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Hickory Run State Park
- Land
- State land
- Location
- Carbon County, Pennsylvania
- Coordinates
- 41.02050, −75.66570
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-pa-stony-point
View from the cab
What you see from the cab: every ridge out to about 93 miles, the named peaks in sight, and other fire lookouts within view, worked out from terrain data in your browser.
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Or see what it could see on the map: the ground in its line of sight.
History
Then and now
- 1921 BuiltSource: Fire Towers of Pennsylvania (ArcGIS StoryMap, Shawn Lesitsky)
- TodayStandingIt still stands, as far as our sources know.
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.
The Stony Point Fire Tower is in Hickory Run State Park, in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.1 Wikidata, which catalogs it as a fire lookout tower, places it in the park and gives its coordinates.1
We could not confirm when the tower was built or who built it. Our own record gives 1921 and an Aermotor design, but the pages we could read do not give either date or maker.1,2
We also found no record of who watched the tower or of any fire it spotted, so the staffing history is blank for now.
Do not confuse it with another Stony Point site. The Former Fire Lookout Sites register lists a Stony Point Tower Site in Union County, which it describes as "no longer standing."3 The register does not link that site to this tower, and the two should be kept apart.
An undated Flickr photo caption says the tower sits on a rise above the south and west parts of the park, at a base elevation of about 1,860 feet.2 The same caption says the tower cannot be climbed, that a locked, barbed-wire fence encloses it, and that trees and underbrush hide the view from its base.2 Because the caption is undated, it may not show the tower as it stands now. Anyone who wants to see it should look from the outside and ask park staff about its condition first.
- Stony Point Fire Tower, Wikidata, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107456007 (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Watchful: Stony Point Fire Tower, Hickory Run State Park, Carbon County, Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholas_t/2417938772 (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
- Stony Point Tower Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://www.firetower.org/lookouts/us/pa/stony-point-tower-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
Photos
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Sources
- Fire Towers of Pennsylvania (ArcGIS StoryMap, Shawn Lesitsky) (opens another site) Gave us: name, county, type, what it is built of, design, height, status, agency, ownership, dates, photos, links Pennsylvania fire towers StoryMap (ArcGIS) · No licence stated; facts only (county, agency, built year, height, builder). · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- eastern US (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site) Gave us: location, 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
- Wikidata -- US fire lookout towers (Q748998 and subclasses) (opens another site) Gave us: photos, links Wikidata · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata). Images keep their own Commons licence/credit. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, status, agency, access, visiting details, 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
- Watchful: Stony Point Fire Tower, Hickory Run State Park, Carbon County (photo caption) (Flickr) (opens another site)
- Stony Point Tower Site (Former Fire Lookout Sites (National Register of Former Lookout Sites)) (opens another site)
- Fire Towers of Pennsylvania StoryMap (Shawn Lesitsky) (opens another site)
- Stoney Point (easternuslookouts.weebly.com) (opens another site)
- Wikidata item Q107456007 (opens another site)
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