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Cooperation Point Lookout

Clearwater National Forest lookout: a 1934 pole L-4 tower, destroyed in 1950. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1950; no source describes what remains on the point.

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

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerPole tower with an L-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Clearwater National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Idaho County, Idaho
Coordinates
46.42684, −114.82090
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-cooperation-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 BuiltPole tower with an L-4 cabSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. No record between 1934 and 1950
  3. 1950 DestroyedFour pages and lists give 1950; one Idaho page also tags the site AbandonedSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, fs.usda.gov
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

The Cooperation Point lookout stood about eight miles southwest of Powell Ranger Station, in Idaho County on the Clearwater National Forest, at an elevation of 6,785 feet.1

The name may point to shared work. A place-name note in the Clearwater forest history says the Lolo Forest built a lookout on the point to watch for fires in the Warm Springs area, working with the Clearwater.2 That note calls the peak "Cooperation Mountain," so the match with this point is likely but not certain.

The tower was a pole structure with an L-4 cab, dated to 1934.1,3

Four lookout pages and lists give 1950 as the year it was destroyed.1,3,4,5 One Idaho page tags the site "Abandoned" in its header, but the history on the same page also says destroyed in 1950.3

No source I found describes what, if anything, remains on the point today, or whether the ground is open to visitors.

  1. Cooperation Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/cooperationpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. The Clearwater Story: A History of the Clearwater National Forest, Appendix B, npshistory.com, https://npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/1/clearwater/story/appb.htm (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Cooperation Point Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/selway-region/cooperation-point/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Clearwater National Forest Lookouts, USDA Forest Service, Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests, https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/nfs/files/r01/nezperce-clearwater/publication/fseprd507528%20(1).pdf (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  5. Idaho County (A-L) - Forest Lookouts, idaholookouts.weebly.com, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/idaho-county-a-l.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, 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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