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Fire lookout · Shoshone County, Idaho

Daveggio Knob

Lookout site on the St. Joe National Forest, Shoshone County, Idaho: camp 1939, L-4 cab 1942, destroyed 1963; labeled drive-in by Idaho Fire Lookouts and ground by the association; footings found in a June 2025 visit.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed 1963 per firelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts; a June 2025 post found four footings and metal and wire fragments.

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
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts labels the site drive-in; a June 2025 post says a road was blocked by downfall and the writers parked and hiked up.

Facts

Status
Gone sources disagree
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cab with a patrol point on the northwest ridgeThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1942
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
St. Joe National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Shoshone County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.18690, −116.01725
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. 1939 EventListed as a campSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. 1942 BuiltL-4 cab with a patrol point on the northwest ridgeSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  3. No record between 1942 and 1963
  4. 1963 DestroyedDestroyed 1963; Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the entry as destroyed or removedSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  5. No record between 1963 and 2025
  6. 2025 EventJune 2025 visit (post dated June 20, 2025) located four footings and wire and metal fragmentsSource: idahofirelookouts.com
  7. 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.

Daveggio Knob is a lookout site on the St. Joe National Forest, in Shoshone County, Idaho, at 5,882 feet.1,2 Records list a camp there in 1939, and an L-4 cab with a patrol point on the northwest ridge in 1942.1,2

Both sources give 1963 as the year the lookout was destroyed.1,2 Idaho Fire Lookouts labels the entry drive-in and destroyed or removed. The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the site as a ground lookout that is gone.2,3

A June 2025 post on Idaho Fire Lookouts describes a visit to the site. The writers found a road blocked by a tangle of fallen timber, so they parked and hiked up.2 They found all four footings, plus other debris such as wire and metal pieces.2 At the patrol point, they could see no trace of its earlier use.2

We found no source that says whether the site is open to the public.

  1. Daveggio Knob Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/daveggioknob.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Daveggio Knob, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/daveggio-knob/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Idaho Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Photos

Daveggio Knob
Daveggio KnobPhoto: idahofirelookouts.com · source

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Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on whether it still stands.

    • FFLA: Gone
    • firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page: Gone
    • Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com): Standing

    firelookout.com lists it, but not on its map of standing lookouts. idahofirelookouts.com's status is read from a short summary.

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: 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
  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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