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Fire lookout · Kootenai County, Idaho

Boundary Peak Lookout

Kootenai County, ID lookout in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest: a 20-foot L-4 pole tower from 1931, destroyed in 1962, now listed as gone.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1962 per all three detailed listings; none gives a cause, and no source describes the site today

Visit & stay

Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.

Access

Access unknown

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Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists it as a hike-in site at 4,467 feet; no source describes current access

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower20-foot pole tower with L-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1931
Height
20 ft (6.1 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Coeur d'Alene National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Kootenai County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.81440, −116.32418
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
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View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1931 Built20-foot pole tower with L-4 cabSources: idahofirelookouts.com, firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1931 and 1962
  3. 1962 DestroyedDestroyed; no source gives a causeSources: idahofirelookouts.com, firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  4. 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 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Boundary Peak Lookout stood on a peak in Kootenai County, Idaho, inside the Coeur d'Alene National Forest.1,2,3 The tower there was built in 1931. It was a 20-foot pole structure with an L-4 cab, a design all three detailed listings describe.1,2,3

Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the peak as a hike-in site at an elevation of 4,467 feet.1

Every detailed listing gives 1962 as the year the tower was destroyed.1,2,3 The Fire Lookout index at firelookout.org still marks the tower as gone, so there is no standing lookout left to climb.4 No source describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the ground is open to visitors.1,2,3

A different Boundary Peak, in Idaho County, is also listed as gone, so check the county before planning a trip.4

  1. Boundary Peak Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/cda-region/boundary-peak-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Boundary Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/boundarypeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Boundary Peak, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/boundary-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Idaho lookouts index, firelookout.org, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Sources

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists Gave us: name, location, county, type, status, links Forest Fire Lookout Association (firelookout.org) · No licence stated; facts extracted only, no prose copied. · retrieved 8 Oct 2026
  2. 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
  3. Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com) Gave us: dates, 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
  4. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: design, height, agency, ownership, 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
  5. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, status, agency, 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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