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Fire lookout · Custer County, Idaho

Grouse Creek Peak

Also known as Grouse Creek Point

Challis NF lookout site in Custer County, ID: an L-4 cabin built 1935 and destroyed 1970; no source describes what remains today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed 1970 per all three sources; no source describes 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. Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in; no source says whether it is open to visitors today

Road to the top?
No, you have to hike
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 lookout cabinThe design: L-4
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1935
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Challis National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Custer County, Idaho
Coordinates
44.62760, −114.84318
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. 1935 BuiltL-4 lookout cabin constructedSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1935 and 1970
  3. 1970 DestroyedStructure destroyedSources: 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.

Grouse Creek Peak lies in Custer County, about 31 miles west-northwest of Challis, on the Challis National Forest.1,2 Forest Lookouts also files it under the name Grouse Creek Point.2 Its land location is given as 15N-13E-23, a township, range and section code.2 Idaho Fire Lookouts gives its elevation as 9,454 feet.3

Firelookout.com titles its page Grouse Creek Peak Fire Lookout Cabin.1

An L-4 lookout cabin was built in 1935.1,3,2 The structure was destroyed in 1970.1,2

Idaho Fire Lookouts files the site as hike-in, which means visitors reach it on foot.3 No source describes what, if anything, remains at the site today, or whether it is open to visitors.1,3,2

  1. Grouse Creek Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, Firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/grousecreekpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Grouse Creek Peak, Forest Lookouts (Idaho), https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/grouse-creek-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Grouse Creek Peak, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/southern-idaho/grouse-creek-peak/ (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, access, staffing, 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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