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Fire lookout · Whatcom County, Washington

Cady Point Lookout Site

Whatcom County, WA; two-story L-5 cab built 1935 and abandoned 1970. Now inside North Cascades National Park; no source describes what remains.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned 1970; Weebly lists it as removed; 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

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

Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Two-story buildingtwo-story L-5 cabThe design: L-5
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1935
Height
Unknown
Elevation
6,542 ft (1,994 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service (Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest)
Land
Federal land
Location
Whatcom County, Washington
Coordinates
48.73527, −120.79572
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-wa-cady-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1935 BuiltTwo-story L-5 cab; panoramic photos from the roof dated August 11, 1935 in captions and the Weebly list, September in WillhiteWeb's textSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, willhiteweb.com
  2. No record between 1935 and 1970
  3. 1970 AbandonedAbandoned 1970 per all three compilationsSources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, willhiteweb.com
  4. No record between 1970 and 2012
  5. 2012 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterFFLOS registration dated January 26, 2012Source: firetower.org
  6. 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.

The Cady Point lookout stood in Whatcom County, Washington, in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.1 Firetower.org lists the U.S. Forest Service as the administrator.1 Sources date the lookout to 1935, when a two-story L-5 cab was built on the site.1,2,3

WillhiteWeb's page says panoramic photographs were shot from the roof, 12.5 feet up, that same year. Its text puts them in September, but its captions and a Weebly listing date them to August 11, 1935.3,4

We found no source that names who staffed the lookout or describes any fires it watched.

Sources agree the lookout was abandoned in 1970.1,2,3 Firetower.org and firelookout.com say the site now lies within North Cascades National Park.1,2 A Weebly list of Washington lookouts marks it as removed.4

We found no source that describes what, if anything, remains at the site. WillhiteWeb's page says its author had not visited the site yet, so it gives no first-hand account of its condition.3 Because the site is inside a national park,1,2 the park is the place to ask about access and rules.

  1. Cady Point Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/wa/cady-point-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Cady Point Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/wa/cadypoint.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Cady Point Lookout Site, WillhiteWeb.com, http://willhiteweb.com/fire_lookouts/cady_point_lookout/north_cascades_063.htm (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Cady Point - Forest Lookouts, Washington Forest Lookouts (Weebly), https://washingtonlookouts.weebly.com/cady-point.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Cady Point Lookout Site
Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, ownership, 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
  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. WillhiteWeb.com: Washington Fire Lookouts Gave us: links WillhiteWeb.com · No licence stated; names and page links only (the site's photos and text are not reproduced). · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  6. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, 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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