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Fire lookout · Valley County, Idaho

Eagle Rock Lookout

L-4 lookout house on Eagle Rock in Valley County, Idaho, erected in 1934 and destroyed in 1951; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1951. No source 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

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Road to the top?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 lookout houseThe design: L-4
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Payette National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Valley County, Idaho
Coordinates
44.88055, −115.63754
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 BuiltAfter blasting and leveling, a standard L-4 lookout house was erected; firelookout.com calls it a cabin. The lookout lived in a tent before it went upSources: firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1934 and 1951
  3. 1951 DestroyedDestroyed, per both pagesSources: firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.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.

Eagle Rock, in Valley County on the Payette National Forest, was a camp in the 1920s.1,2 Before the cabin, the lookout lived in a tent, and an alidade (a surveyor's sighting tool) was set on a rock.2

In 1934 the ground was blasted and leveled, and a standard L-4 lookout house was packed in and put up.2 Firelookout.com calls the 1934 structure a cabin.1

The house stood until 1951, when both pages record it as destroyed.1,2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association list also marks the site as gone.3

None of the three sources describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or says whether it is open to the public, so check with the Payette National Forest before going.1,2,3

  1. Eagle Rock Fire Lookout Cabin, Firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/eaglerock.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Eagle Rock - Forest Lookouts (Rex's Fire Lookout Page), https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/eagle-rock.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Idaho Lookouts - Forest Fire Lookout Association, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (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: what it is built of, design, 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, 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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