The Scalplock Mountain Fire Lookout in Glacier National Park is significant as one of a chain of staffed fire lookout posts within the park. The low two-story timber-construction structure with a pyramidal roof was built in 1931. The lookout affords views into the Park Creek valley and the Middle Fork of the

Flathead River The Flathead River ( fla, label= Salish, člq̓etkʷ ntx̣ʷetkʷ, , kut, kananmituk), in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Fla ...

, which was traversed by the

Great Northern Railway (U.S.) The Great Northern Railway was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. Hill and was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific ...

and

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, prolific sources of fires. The lookout was built to standard plans derived from U.S. Forest Service plans.

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* at the National Park Service's NRHP database Towers completed in 1931 Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana Rustic architecture in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana 1931 establishments in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park {{Montana-struct-stub