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Fire lookout · Kootenai County, Idaho

Carrill Peak Lookout

40-foot L-4 lookout tower on Carrill Peak, Coeur d'Alene National Forest: built 1936, destroyed about 1947. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed around 1947. No source describes what remains on the peak.

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?
Yes, you can drive up

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerL-4 cab on a 40-foot towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1936
Height
40 ft (12.2 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Coeur d'Alene National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Kootenai County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.54074, −116.68100
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. 1936 Built40-foot tower with L-4 cab; one list marks the year as c.1936Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1947 DestroyedOne list marks the year as c.1947Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  3. 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.

Carrill Peak Lookout stood on the peak about eight miles south-southeast of Coeur d'Alene, in Kootenai County and the Coeur d'Alene National Forest.1,2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association places the site at 47.54074, -116.68100.2 The site's elevation is listed as 4,098 feet.3

Records give 1936 for the tower, which was 40 feet tall and had an L-4 cab, though one list marks that year as approximate.1,3,4 The Kemnow list gives the location as section 35 of township 49 North, range 3 West, and credits both dates to a source it names only as Kresek.4

Sources put the tower's destruction in 1947, and one of the lists marks that date as approximate.1,3,4 The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the structure as gone.2

No source describes what, if anything, remains on the peak. Idaho Fire Lookouts files the site under drive-up, but none of the pages I read says whether the ground is open to visitors.3

  1. Carrill Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/carrillpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Idaho Lookouts (by Region), Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id/id-rg/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Carrill Peak Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/cda-region/carrill-peak-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Carrill Peak, Forest Lookouts, western US (Ron Kemnow), https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/carrill-peak.html (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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