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Fire lookout · Boundary County, Idaho

Dodge Peak

Kaniksu National Forest lookout: a 30-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab, dated 1933 and destroyed 1955; no source describes what remains on the peak.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1955

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?
No, you have to hike

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower30-foot pole tower with L-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1933
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kaniksu National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Boundary County, Idaho
Coordinates
48.56437, −116.54360
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. 1933 Built30-foot pole L-4 tower with L-4 cab; a separate 35-foot patrol tower with a log cabin on Green Mountain is described without a dateSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. No record between 1933 and 1955
  3. 1955 DestroyedBoth sources give 1955Sources: 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.

Dodge Peak is in Boundary County, Idaho, on the Kaniksu National Forest, about 14 miles southwest of Bonners Ferry.1,2 Firelookout.com gives its elevation as 5,027 feet.1 Idaho Fire Lookouts files the site under its Northern Idaho region.3

The lookout was a 30-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab, dated to 1933.1,3 Both pages also describe a separate 35-foot patrol tower, with a log cabin on top, on Green Mountain 1.5 miles to the south-southwest.1,3

Both sources give 1955 as the year the lookout was destroyed.1,3

No source describes what remains on the peak today. Idaho Fire Lookouts files Dodge Peak as a hike-in site, so a visitor would need to walk in, but the page does not say whether the public can reach the summit now.3

  1. Dodge Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/dodgepeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Dodge Peak, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/dodge-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Dodge Peak, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/northern-idaho/dodge-peak/ (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: 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, 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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