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Fire lookout · Skagit County, Washington

Huckleberry Mountain Lookout Site (Mt. Baker NF)

Also known as Huckleberry Mountain

Skagit County lookout cab built 1935 (10 x 10 ft L-5), burned by vandals in 1962; WillhiteWeb trip photos show the bare site and stove parts.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Cab burned by vandals in 1962; WillhiteWeb trip photos (undated) show a bare area where the building stood, stove parts and phone-line insulators along the trail

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
Trail
About 7 miles of hiking from a trailhead about 15 miles up the Suiattle River Road (WillhiteWeb); the first two miles are often overgrown and a stretch near the end is extremely faint

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cab10 x 10 foot L-5 cab, built 1935The design: L-5
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1935
Height
Unknown
Elevation
5,856 ft (1,785 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Skagit County, Washington
Coordinates
48.32211, −121.32375
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-wa-huckleberry-mountain-mt-baker-nf

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1935 Built10 x 10 foot L-5 cab built; panorama photos taken from its roof on September 7, 1935Sources: firetower.org, washingtonlookouts.weebly.com, willhiteweb.com
  2. No record between 1935 and 1962
  3. 1962 BurnedBurned by vandals in 1962 (Forest Lookouts gives no date)Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, willhiteweb.com
  4. No record between 1962 and 2012
  5. 2012 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered April 23, 2012 on the Former Fire Lookout Sites register as US 1247, WA 147Source: 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 Huckleberry Mountain lookout stood in Skagit County, in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, about 14 miles east-northeast of Darrington.1,2 WillhiteWeb's page for this lookout, at 5,856 feet, calls it the Huckleberry Ridge site.3 It says an early drawing placed it on Huckleberry Mountain, which it considers probably a mapmaker's error.3 The cab was 10 by 10 feet and of the L-5 type, built in 1935.1,4,3 Panoramic photos were taken from its roof on September 7, 1935.4,3

Vandals burned the cab in 1962.1,2,3 Forest Lookouts says only that vandals burned it.4

WillhiteWeb's trip photos are undated.3 They show a cleared spot where the lookout building once stood, plus stove parts and phone-line insulators along the trail.3 The same account gives a hiking distance of 7 miles, starting at a trailhead roughly 15 miles along the Suiattle River Road.3 The first two miles are often grown over, and near the end hikers tend to lose the route.3 Volunteers clear the trail about every five years.3

We found no source that says whether the site or its trail is open to visitors today. Check with the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest before going.1,3

  1. Huckleberry Mountain Lookout Site (Mt. Baker NF), Former Fire Lookout Sites register, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/wa/huckleberry-mountain-lookout-site-mt-baker-nf/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Huckleberry Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/wa/huckleberry129.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Huckleberry Ridge Lookout Site, WillhiteWeb.com, https://willhiteweb.com/fire_lookouts/huckleberry_ridge_lookout/house_067.htm (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Huckleberry Mountain - Forest Lookouts, Washington, https://washingtonlookouts.weebly.com/huckleberry-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Huckleberry Mountain Lookout panoramic 9-7-1935 (N)
Huckleberry Mountain Lookout panoramic 9-7-1935 (N) (1935)Photo: National Archives-Pacific Northwest Region, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Huckleberry Mountain Lookout panoramic 9-7-1935 (SE)
Huckleberry Mountain Lookout panoramic 9-7-1935 (SE) (1935)Photo: National Archives-Pacific Northwest Region, via Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Huckleberry Mountain Lookout panoramic 9-7-1935 (SW)
Huckleberry Mountain Lookout panoramic 9-7-1935 (SW) (1935)Photo: National Archives-Pacific Northwest Region, via 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, 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: what it is built of, design, 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, status, agency, visiting details, 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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