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Fire lookout · Bonner County, Idaho

Antelope Mountain Lookout Site

Log cabin c.1923 and 30-foot L-4 tower c.1936 in Bonner County; removed or destroyed in 1964; no documented staff.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Removed or destroyed in 1964; the sources differ on which. No source describes a standing structure.

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent. You may still be able to visit the site.

Access

Open to the public. On Kaniksu National Forest land. No source says the site is closed. None describes the site today.

Road to the top?
No, you have to hike
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts labels the site hike-in. No source gives a route.

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerL-4The design: L-4
Built of
Wood
Built
1923
Height
30 ft (9.1 m)
Elevation
4,392 ft (1,339 m)
Agency
U.S. Forest Service
Land
Federal land
Location
Bonner County, Idaho
Coordinates
48.13906, −116.13642
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 9 Oct 2026.
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View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1923 BuiltLog cabin built about 1923, per the register, firelookout.com and the Weebly page.Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1936 Built30-foot pole L-4 tower constructed about 1936.Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  3. No record between 1936 and 1964
  4. 1964 RemovedRegister says removed in 1964. Firelookout.com, Idaho Fire Lookouts and the Weebly page say destroyed in 1964.Sources: firetower.org, firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  5. No record between 1964 and 2010
  6. 2010 Added to the Former Fire Lookout Sites RegisterRegistered September 13, 2010 as US 628, ID 1.Source: firetower.org
  7. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

USGS topographic maps from the years a lookout stood may show it, often as a small symbol labelled “Lookout”. See the old topo maps around it on the Firefinder map, or find every scanned sheet of this spot on USGS TopoView (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 9 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Antelope Mountain lookout stood in Bonner County, about two miles east of Clark Fork, on Kaniksu National Forest land.1,2 A log cabin went up around 1923, and a 30-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab came later, around 1936.1,2,3

Idaho Fire Lookouts has no staffing history on file for the site so far.4

The sources disagree about how the tower ended. The Former Fire Lookout Sites register says it was removed in 1964.1 Firelookout.com, Idaho Fire Lookouts and the Idaho Forest Lookouts page on Weebly all say it was destroyed that year.2,4,3

The register lists the site as registered on September 13, 2010, as US 628, ID 1, and gives its elevation as 4,392 feet (1,339 meters).1 Idaho Fire Lookouts gives 4932 feet, while the register and firelookout.com both give 4,392 feet.1,2,4

Idaho Fire Lookouts marks the site as a hike-in and abandoned.4 None of the four sources says what, if anything, is left on the ground today, so the record cannot say whether a cabin footing or tower base survives.1,2,4,3

  1. Antelope Mountain Lookout Site, Former Fire Lookout Sites, http://firetower.org/lookouts/us/id/antelope-mountain-lookout-site/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  2. Antelope Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/antelopemtn.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  3. Antelope Mountain - Forest Lookouts, idaholookouts.weebly.com, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/antelope-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩
  4. Antelope Mountain Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/northern-idaho/antelope-mountain-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-09). ↩

Photos

Photo of Antelope Mountain Lookout Site
Photo: Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved · source
Antelope Mountain Lookout
Antelope Mountain LookoutPhoto: idahofirelookouts.com · source

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Sources

  1. Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (FFLOS) Gave us: name, location, county, elevation, what it is built of, register numbers, agency, ownership, dates, photos, links Former Fire Lookout Sites Register (firetower.org) · All rights reserved (American Resources, Inc.); facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  2. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: type, status, register numbers, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  3. firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page Gave us: links firelookout.com · No licence stated on the site; facts only (coordinates, elevation, built/destroyed years, design, agency). Photos mirrored with the site's stated credit. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  4. Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com) Gave us: photos, links idahofirelookouts.com · No licence stated; facts only (coordinates, status/built/destroyed year parsed from each entry's short excerpt). Thumbnail photos mirrored with credit per the project's photo policy. · retrieved 4 Oct 2026
  5. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: design, height, links Ron Kemnow's Forest Lookouts sites (westlookouts, californialookouts, idaholookouts, montanalookouts, oregonlookouts and washingtonlookouts .weebly.com) · No licence stated; facts only (county, land manager, status word, coordinates where the page's own map widget gives them, township-range-section, height and design hints, links). The site's own newspaper quotes, citations and narrative are not reproduced. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  6. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, access, visiting details, dates, links, fact-check Firefinder research (sources cited in the story footnotes) · Our own research notes; each fact cites its source in the lookout's story

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