Fire lookout · Snohomish County, Washington
Red Mountain
- Gone
- Approximate location
- Access unknown
- Unverified
Approximate location
No source gives where this lookout stood, so the map shows it on Red Mountain, the one summit of that name in Snohomish County, Washington in the USGS Geographic Names Information System (opens another site). 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.
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
- Type
- Type unknownL-4The design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Unknown
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Snohomish County, Washington
- Coordinates
- 47.96468, −121.50745Approximate: placed on Red Mountain (a summit), from USGS GNIS. No source gives where it stood.
- Registers
- Not on a lookout register
- This entry
- UnverifiedFrom a single source and not yet checked. Details may be wrong. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
- Firefinder id
us-wa-red-mountain-4
View from the cab
What the lookout saw from its 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.
From an approximate location
This view, and what it could see, are worked out from Red Mountain, where the map places the lookout, not from a recorded site. The real view may differ.
This lookout is gone. The view is reconstructed from its recorded site and a typical height for a lookout like it.
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Or see what it could see on the map: the ground in its line of sight.
History
Then and now
No dated events recorded yet: nobody has recorded when this lookout was built or when it came down.
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
Summary from our records, not yet researched.
Red Mountain was a fire lookout (L-4 design) in Snohomish County, Washington. No source gives where it stood; the map shows it approximately, on Red Mountain.
We have not researched this lookout's story yet. Know something about its history? Tell us.
Sources
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) (opens another site) Gave us: name, county, design, status, 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
- USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) (opens another site) Gave us: an approximate location, on Red Mountain (a summit) USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) · Public domain
More about this lookout elsewhere
- Red Mountain on Forest Lookouts, western US (Ron Kemnow) (opens another site)
- firelookout.com page (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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