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Copper Mountain Fire Lookout

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
88003446

Added to NRHP
  
10 February 1989

Built
  
1934

Opened
  
1934

Nearest city
  
Newhalem

Copper Mountain Fire Lookout

MPS
  
North Cascades National Park Service Complex MRA

Similar
  
Copper Ridge Trail, Mount Redoubt, Ross Lake, North Cascades National, Mount Shuksan

The Copper Mountain Fire Lookout was built in 1934 in what was then the Glacier Ranger district of Mount Baker National Forest. The cabin-like wood frame lookout is a frame cabin with large windows on each side protected by an awning-style shutter. A shingled gable roof with prominent lightning rods covers the cabin. The lookout measures 14.25 feet (4.34 m) by 14.25 feet (4.34 m) square. During the winter of 1943 the lookout was manned by the Aircraft Warning Service, watching for enemy aircraft. It is one of three lookouts remaining in North Cascades National Park from the Forest Service administration.

The Copper Mountain Fire Lookout was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 10, 1989.

References

Copper Mountain Fire Lookout Wikipedia