TIPTOP MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT
First used with a 1930's 15' pole L-4 tower, a 40' steel tower with live-in cab, built in 1959 & 1960, had been abandoned for a number of years and vandalized. The steel tower superstructure came from Johnson Ridge Lookout. A private party obtained and removed the tower in 2016, and relocated it to Long Ridge on private property in Wallowa County. Known lookout personnel: 1954: John Wright.
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
18 miles northwest of LaGrande
Umatilla County, Oregon
Elevation 4574'

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Tiptop Mtn. original L-4 tower Tiptop Mtn. in 2000
Photos courtesy the Umatilla N.F. and Rex Kamstra