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Green Point Lookout

Clearwater National Forest site in Idaho County at 5,872 feet: L-6 cab built in 1934, listed as gone by every source; none describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Every source read lists it as gone; none describes what remains

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. No source read says whether the site is open to visitors.

Road to the top?
No, you have to hike

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-6 cabThe design: L-6
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Clearwater National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Idaho County, Idaho
Coordinates
46.67590, −115.42910
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-green-point

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 BuiltL-6 cabSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, fs.usda.gov
  2. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

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 Point is a former lookout on the Clearwater National Forest, at 5,872 feet in Idaho County.1,2

The site lies nine miles southwest of the Kelly Creek ranger station, according to firelookout.com and a Forest Service list of the forest's lookouts.1,3 That list places it in section 34, township 39 north, range 8 east.3 The statewide list gives its coordinates as 46.67590 north and 115.42910 west.4

The lookout was an L-6 cab, built in 1934.1,2,3 The statewide list puts it among ground lookouts rather than towers.4 Every source I found lists it as gone.1,2,3,4

Idaho Fire Lookouts marks the site as "Hike-In," which points to a walk to reach it.2 No source I found describes what, if anything, remains there today, or whether visitors may enter.

  1. Green Point Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/greenpoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Green Point Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/green-point-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Clearwater National Forest Lookouts, USDA Forest Service, https://www.fs.usda.gov/media/259185 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Idaho lookout list, 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: 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. Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, agency, access, 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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