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Fire lookout · Shoshone County, Idaho

Club Point Lookout

Shoshone County, Idaho lookout cab on the St. Joe National Forest, built 1935, abandoned 1953, now gone; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site.

Visit & stay

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

Access

Access unknown

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Road to the top?
No, you have to hike

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1935
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
St. Joe National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Shoshone County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.02694, −115.41352
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-club-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1935 BuiltL-4 cab placed atop the easternmost point of the siteSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1935 and 1953
  3. 1953 AbandonedBoth site pages give 1953 with the words abandoned and goneSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.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.

Club Point Lookout stood in the St. Joe National Forest, in Shoshone County, Idaho.1,2,3 In 1935 an L-4 cab was placed atop the site's easternmost point.2,3,4 The site sits at an elevation of 6,236 feet.3

The Idaho Fire Lookouts page files the site as a hike-in, so visitors had to walk in.3 The lookout was abandoned in 1953, and the two Club Point pages agree on both the 1935 and 1953 dates.2,3 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Idaho list classes it as a ground site rather than a tower, and marks it gone.1

No source I read describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether the ground is open to the public. Anyone planning a trip should check with the St. Joe National Forest first.

  1. Forest Fire Lookout Association Idaho lookout list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Club Point Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/clubpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Club Point Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/club-point-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Shoshone County - Forest Lookouts, idaholookouts.weebly.com, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/shoshone-county.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. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, 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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