Fire lookout · Boundary County, Idaho
Eddy Peak Lookout
Boundary County lookout: 40-foot pole L-4 tower, staffed one week, torn down 1959; FFLA lists it as gone; no source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. FFLA list shows the tower as gone; no source describes what remains on the site today
Visit & stay
Gone: site only. The lookout no longer stands, so there is nothing to climb or rent.
Access
Access unknown
We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.
- Road to the top?
- Unknown
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a tower40-foot pole tower with L-4 cabThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- 1941
- Height
- 40 ft (12.2 m)
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Priest Lake Timber Protective Association
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Boundary County, Idaho
- Coordinates
- 48.63483, −116.71948
- 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
- 1941 Built40-foot pole L-4 tower. Two sources give 1941; Forest Lookouts says 1930s with CCC labor.Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
- No record between 1941 and 1959
- 1959 RemovedTorn down.Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
- 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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
Eddy Peak is in Boundary County, about 10 miles east of Nordman.1,2 It was a 40-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab, named for Ranger Leslie E. Eddy.1,2
The sources disagree on when it went up. Two say the tower was built in 1941.1,2 The Forest Lookouts page says it was built in the 1930s with Civilian Conservation Corps labor.3
The Priest Lake Timber Protective Association ran the lookout.1,3 It had staff for just one week.1,2 It came down in 1959.1,2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Idaho list marks it as gone.4
No source we read describes what remains of the tower or the site today. None covers access or who owns the site now, so check both before planning a visit.
- Eddy Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra), https://www.firelookout.com/id/eddypeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Eddy Peak Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/northern-idaho/eddy-peak-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Eddy Peak, Forest Lookouts (Ron Kemnow), https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/eddy-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Idaho lookout list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
Photos
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Sources
- Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists (opens another site) 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
- firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page (opens another site) 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
- Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com) (opens another site) 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
- FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) (opens another site) Gave us: agency, 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
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, height, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- FFLA Idaho lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Eddy Peak on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
- Eddy Peak Lookout on idahofirelookouts.com (opens another site)
- Eddy Peak on Forest Lookouts, western US (Ron Kemnow) (opens another site)
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