MOUNT BONAPARTE LOOKOUT
Establish in 1914 with a 12x12' slant-walled cabin (still there) and 15' covered platform, a 16' wooden tower with Region 5 cab replaced it in 1930. The present 20' treated timber tower with R-6 flat cab, built in 1961, is staffed every summer. It, along with the original 1914 cabin, are listed on the National Historic Lookout Register and the 1914 cabin is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Okanogan National Forest
15 miles NE of Tonasket
Okanogan County, Washington
Elevation 7258'
Topozone
USGS Benchmark TP1109
USGS Benchmark TP1113
Geocache

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Mt. Bonaparte in 1914 Mt. Bonaparte in 1956 Mt. Bonaparte in 1959
Mt. Bonaparte in 1962 Mt. Bonaparte in 1991 Lookouts Jim & Wanda Caruthers in 1991
Check the view from the top: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, and Northwest.
Photos courtesy the Fire Lookout Museum and Rex Kamstra