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Fire lookout · Kootenai County, Idaho

Dudley Peak Lookout

Coeur d'Alene National Forest lookout near Kellogg, built 1934; sources disagree on whether it was removed or destroyed in 1950, and none describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Removed or destroyed in 1950 (sources differ); no source says anything stands today

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 tower30-foot pole tower with L-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
30 ft (9.1 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Coeur d'Alene National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Kootenai County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.52902, −116.40400
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. 1934 Built30-foot pole tower with L-4 cabSources: firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1941 StaffedWilliam Heard, cited to the Kellogg Evening NewsSource: idahofirelookouts.com
  3. 1944 StaffedWilliam HoardSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  4. 1950 DestroyedListed as destroyed by Forest Lookouts and Idaho Fire LookoutsSources: idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1950 RemovedOffered for sale to the public and removedSource: firelookout.com
  6. 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.

Dudley Peak Lookout stood in Kootenai County, about 13 miles west of Kellogg, on land in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest.1,2 Its builders put up a 30-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab in 1934.1,3

The Idaho Fire Lookouts site lists two names for its staff: a William Heard in 1941, cited to the Kellogg Evening News, and a William Hoard in 1944.2 The pages do not say whether they were the same man. Firelookout.com also gives Hoard for 1944.1

The sources disagree about how the tower came down. Firelookout.com says the tower was put up for public sale and taken down in 1950.1 The Forest Lookouts site and the Idaho Fire Lookouts site both say it was destroyed that year.2,3 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Idaho list marks the tower as gone.4

We found no source that describes what, if anything, remains on the peak today, or whether visitors can reach it. Anyone thinking of going up should check with the Forest Service first.

  1. Dudley Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra), https://www.firelookout.com/id/dudleypeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Dudley Peak Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/dudley-peak-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Dudley Peak, Forest Lookouts (Idaho listings), https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/dudley-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Idaho lookouts list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Photos

Dudley Peak Lookout
Dudley Peak LookoutPhoto: idahofirelookouts.com · source

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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, 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. 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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