Mount Brown Fire Lookout

The Mount Brown Fire Lookout in Glacier National Park is significant as one of a chain of staffed fire lookout posts within the park. The low two-story timber-construction structure with a pyramidal roof was built in 1928.[2] The design was a standard U.S. Forest Service plan.[3]

Mount Brown Fire Lookout
Mount Brown Fire Lookout is located in Montana
Mount Brown Fire Lookout
Mount Brown Fire Lookout is located in the United States
Mount Brown Fire Lookout
Nearest cityWest Glacier
Coordinates48°37′44″N 113°49′58″W / 48.62889°N 113.83278°W / 48.62889; -113.83278
Built1928
MPSGlacier National Park MRA
NRHP reference No.86003693[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1986

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Mount Brown Fire Lookout". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. November 14, 2008.
  3. ^ Historic Research Associates (May 1984). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Mount Brown Fire Lookout (pdf). National Park Service.
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Mount Brown Fire Lookout with fire resistant wrapping installed to help it withstand the Sprague Fire in 2017