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Fire lookout · Boundary County, Idaho

Green Bonnet Lookout

40-foot L-4 pole tower built 1936 in the Kaniksu National Forest; destroyed in the 1967 Trapper Peak Fire; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in the 1967 Trapper Peak Fire

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 towerL-4 cab on 40-foot pole towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1936
Height
40 ft (12.2 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Kaniksu National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Boundary County, Idaho
Coordinates
48.88155, −116.90550 sources disagree
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-green-bonnet

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1936 Built40-foot pole tower with L-4 cabSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. No record between 1936 and 1967
  3. 1967 DestroyedDestroyed in the Trapper Peak Fire; Forest Lookouts says burned in a wildfireSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.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.

Green Bonnet was a 40-foot pole tower with an L-4 cab, built in 1936 in the Kaniksu National Forest.1,2 It stood about five miles north of Upper Priest Lake in Boundary County, Idaho, at an elevation of 5,958 feet.1,2

The tower did not last past 1967.1,2 Firelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts both say it was destroyed in the Trapper Peak Fire that year, and the Forest Lookouts page says it was burned in a wildfire.1,2,3 The Boundary County Museum ties the Trapper Peak Fire to lightning strikes in the northwest corner of the county.4 The museum says the fire burned for 31 days and covered roughly 16,000 acres.4

The firelookout.org list of Idaho lookouts marks Green Bonnet as gone.5 No source we read says what, if anything, remains at the site today. Idaho Fire Lookouts tags the lookout as hike-in, which is the only access detail in the sources.2

  1. Green Bonnet Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/greenbonnet.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Green Bonnet Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/northern-idaho/green-bonnet-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Green Bonnet, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/green-bonnet.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Forest Fires of 1967, Boundary County Museum, https://boundarycountymuseum.org/news/forest-fires-of-1967 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  5. Idaho lookouts list, firelookout.org, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Photos

Green Bonnet Lookout
Green Bonnet LookoutPhoto: idahofirelookouts.com · source

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Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on the location by 570 m.

    • FFLA: 48.88155, −116.90550
    • Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com): 48.88002, −116.91297

    The map uses the position from FFLA.

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: 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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