{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Lake Mountain Lookout Complex | nrhp_type = | image = Lake Mountain Lookout Pix-1.jpg | caption = Lake Mountain Lookout Tower | location= McNary, Arizona | coordinates= {{Coord|34|09|28|N|109|46|07|W|display=title}} | locmapin = Arizona#USA | architecture = | added = January 28, 1988 | area = {{convert|9|acre}} | refnum = 87002453<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} thumb|Lake Mountain Lookout Cabin The '''Lake Mountain Lookout Complex''' is a 49-foot tall lookout tower erected in 1926 approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres) east of Lakeside, Arizona. It overlooks a portion of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://westlookouts.weebly.com/arizona.html |title=Forest Lookouts – Arizona – Lake Mountain |access-date=October 25, 2017 |archive-date=October 26, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026002405/https://westlookouts.weebly.com/arizona.html}}</ref> The lookout was staffed by a forest ranger who was stationed at the nearby Los Burros Ranger Station, from which they would ride out to the lookout each day.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Best in Tent Camping: Arizona |author1=Kirstin Olmon |author2=Kelly Phillips |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RadKAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Lake+Mountain+Lookout%22&pg=PA105 |publisher=Menasha Ridge Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0897326483}}</ref> The tower was constructed atop Lake Mountain, at the 8,250 foot elevation,<ref>{{cite book |title=National Woodlands |volume=25–26 |page=18|publisher=National Woodlands Publishing Company |year=2002 }}</ref> by the Aermotor Windmill Company.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firelookout.org/lookouts/lo-arizona.html |publisher=firelookout.org |title=Arizona Lookouts |access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref>
==See also== * {{Portal-inline|Arizona}} * {{Portal-inline|National Register of Historic Places}} * National Register of Historic Places listings in Apache County, Arizona
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Category:Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona Category:National Register of Historic Places in Apache County, Arizona Category:Historic sites in Arizona Category:1926 establishments in Arizona Category:Towers completed in 1926 Category:Aermotor Corporation fire lookout towers Category:Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests Category:Fire lookout towers in Arizona