Goat Mountain Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower in the Sierra National Forest above Bass Lake in Madera County, California. It is in the Bass Lake Ranger District and can be reached by the Goat Mountain and Spring Cove trails.
The lookout is located south of the summit of Goat Mountain. Goat Mountain Lookout is listed in geographic databases as a separate named feature in Madera County, and the summit of Goat Mountain is mapped separately on the USGS Bass Lake quadrangle.
Goat Mountain Fire Lookout is a hiking destination above Bass Lake. Hikers can reach it by either the Goat Mountain Trail or the Spring Cove Trail, both of which lead to the tower.
Goat Mountain served as an early fire detection site in the Sierra National Forest by 1915 or earlier. A cabin built there in 1915 was blown down during the winter of 1915âÂÂ16. The lookout was rebuilt in 1934 and again in 1935 after wind damage. The present structure is a 20-foot H-B Steel L-4 hip-roof lookout on a Pacific Coast Steel tower base.
The lookout was placed on the National Historic Lookout Register on April 21, 1999, as registry number US 303 (California 31), also listed as Lookout No. 303.
The tower no longer serves its original fire lookout role and is now used as a Forest Service radio relay site. The nearby peak is used for telecommunications for wireless carriers.