Mt. Minsi Lookout

In 1921, a Scranton, PA newspaper wrote that a steel tower was being placed on Mt. Minsi. It would be 47 feet high and in order to get the material up the mountain, it would be necessary to construct an entirely new road of over four miles.

In 1935, a local newspaper said that there is a tall steel tower at the summit of Mount Minis, which serves the double purpose of a fire lookout tower and aeroplane beacon light.

In 1959, a Coast and Geodetic Survey crew visited the site, placed benchmarks and described the tower as a 4-steel column structure with a square lookout house mounted on the top and a stairway leading from the ground to the house. The lookout house was enclosed with windows on all sides. It was orange in color.

A 1977 article in a Hazleton paper discussed the trail in PA and said the Mount Minsi fire tower was a popular stopping point. The tower offered panoramic view of the rugged Delaware Water Gap.

Today, at the actual top, there is only the footings of a fire tower that once stood there. The trail will also hit the old fire road that at one time served this fire tower.