Gleason Mountain Lookout Site

On July 16, 1925, John Gleason and Ole Jackson and their Forest Service crew were fighting the Lamb Fire on the Kaniksu National Forest. The fire picked up in fury. The overhead, fearing a crown fire, decided to remove the crew to safety and ordered all the men to follow. Jackson and Gleason, decided there was a safer way out and refused to follow, taking a different way. Their bodies were later found where they had been trapped by the crown fire while trying to gain the ridge top. Gleason Mountain would be named in honor after one of these men. John Gleason was about 40 years old.

In 1934, a 15-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab was built. A 60-foot pole tower 1/4 mile to the northeast was also part of this lookout site

In the 1960s, the tower was removed or destroyed.

Gleason Mountain & NE Lookout Site