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Fire lookout · Custer County, Idaho

Greyhound Mountain

Challis NF L-4 or R-1 cabin at 8,995 ft; dated 1933 or 1934, abandoned 1946 and listed as gone; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed as gone; no source dates its removal

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?
No, you have to hike

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cabinThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1933
Height
20 ft (6.1 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Challis National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Custer County, Idaho
Coordinates
44.59697, −115.11990
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 BuiltForest Lookouts gives a standard R-1 gable roof lookout house insteadSource: idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1934 BuiltL-4 cabin per firelookout.com and Idaho Fire LookoutsSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  3. 1946 AbandonedSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1959 EventCoast and Geodetic Survey station description: wooden structure 20 x 20 feet, white with green roof, not in useSource: idaholookouts.weebly.com
  5. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

Old maps of this spot

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Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Greyhound Mountain's lookout stood at 8,995 feet in the Challis National Forest, in Custer County, Idaho, about 44 miles west-northwest of Challis.1,2

Sources disagree on the first building. Firelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts date an L-4 cabin to 1934.1,2 The Forest Lookouts page gives 1933 instead and describes a standard R-1 gable roof lookout house.3

The cabin was abandoned in 1946, a date all three sites agree on.1,2,3 A 1959 Coast and Geodetic Survey station description, reproduced on the Forest Lookouts page, describes a white wooden building, 20 feet on each side, roofed in green and accompanied by outbuildings. It was not in use at the time.3

Firelookout.com, Idaho Fire Lookouts and the firelookout.org list all mark the lookout as gone.1,2,4 None of the sources we read says what, if anything, remains at the site today. Idaho Fire Lookouts tags the site as a hike-in, the only access detail in the sources.2

  1. Greyhound Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/greyhoundmtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Greyhound Mountain, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/southern-idaho/greyhound-mountain/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Greyhound Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/greyhound-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Idaho lookouts list, firelookout.org, 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. FOREST LOOKOUTS -- western US (Ron Kemnow's weebly sites) Gave us: 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, 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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