Jackson Mountain Lookout Site

In 1929, a log and frame cabin, 14 feet x 14 feet was built.

In 1934, a 40-foot tower with L-4 cab was built.

In the 1960s, the tower was removed.

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. Jackson Mountain would be named in honor after one of these men. Ole Jackson was about 35 years old.

Herman Walker and Larry Hawk loitering around their Jackson Mountain home, dreaming up pranks to pull on the CCC recruits. White the two were gone one day, a bear cub played one on them by breaking into the cabin and tearing up two sleeping bags and a weeks supply of food. Jackson Mountain in 1933