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Fire lookout · Douglas County, Wisconsin

Clevedon Lookout

Also known as Clevedon (Sugar Camp Hill)

Douglas County, Wisconsin, lookout on Sugar Camp Hill; NHLR-registered 2017 and administered by Wisconsin DNR. Build year, height, staffing and access not found.

Visit & stay

Not rentable. As far as we know, this lookout cannot be booked for overnight stays.

Access

Access unknown

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

Can you climb it?
Unknown
Road to the top?
Unknown
Staffing
Unknown

Facts

Status
Standing
Type
Cab on a towerInside corner leg ladder; register says it appears to be a 100-foot Aermotor towerThe design: Aermotor
Built of
SteelGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
Unknown
Height
Unknown
Elevation
1,254 ft (382 m)
Agency
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Land
Unknown
Location
Douglas County, Wisconsin
Coordinates
46.62061, −91.60871
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 8 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-wi-clevedon

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History

Then and now

  1. 2017 Added to the National Historic Lookout RegisterRegistered August 16, 2017; nominated by Tyler BormannSource: nhlr.org
  2. 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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 8 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Clevedon Lookout stands in Douglas County, Wisconsin, on a hill that its survey records call Sugar Camp Hill.1,2 The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources administers it, and the National Historic Lookout Register listed it on August 16, 2017.1

The register does not know when the tower was built and lists its height as unknown. It notes an inside corner leg ladder and says the tower looks like a 100-foot Aermotor.1

A 1958 recovery note for the survey marker on the hill gives directions that include "east to Cleveland fire tower." The sources do not say whether that is this structure.2

I found no record of who staffed the tower or which fires it watched. The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the tower as standing.3 A peak-listing site names a trail, Fire Tower Road, that reaches the summit, but none of the sources say whether the public may reach the tower or go up it.4 Check with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources before you go, and do not climb the tower without permission.

  1. Clevedon Lookout, National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org), http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/wi/clevedon-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
  2. Clevedon - Forest Lookouts (centraluslookouts.weebly.com), https://centraluslookouts.weebly.com/clevedon.html (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
  3. Wisconsin Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org), https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/wi/ (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩
  4. Sugar Camp Hill (380 m) - Superior Upland, PeakVisor, https://peakvisor.com/peak/sugar-camp-hill.html (accessed 2026-10-08). ↩

Photos

Photo of Clevedon Lookout
Photo: Brian Ziegler, via National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.org) · All rights reserved · source

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Sources

  1. National Historic Lookout Register (NHLR) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, dates, photos, links National Historic Lookout Register (nhlr.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. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- central US (centraluslookouts.weebly.com) Gave us: links centraluslookouts.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
  4. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, 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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