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Grouse Point Lookout

L-4 tower on the Clearwater NF dated 1934 and burned in the Pete King Fire; a separate 1933 Grouse Point three miles north of Lochsa RS is easily confused with it.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Burned in 1934; no source describes what, if anything, remains at the site

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
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists it as hike-in

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerL-4 towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Clearwater National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Idaho County, Idaho
Coordinates
46.41048, −114.69014 sources disagree
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. 1934 BuiltFirelookout.com lists an L-4 tower for 1934Source: firelookout.com
  2. 1934 BurnedForest Service list and Idaho Fire Lookouts both say it burned in 1934; the Idaho page names the Pete King WildfireSources: fs.usda.gov, idahofirelookouts.com
  3. 1934 DestroyedSource: Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com)
  4. 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.

Grouse Point is a former lookout site in the Clearwater National Forest in Idaho.1 Firelookout.com lists an L-4 tower there for 1934, and says it burned that same year.1 The Forest Service's list of Clearwater lookouts places a Grouse Point L-4 tower six miles south of the Powell Ranger Station, and says it burned in 1934.2

The Idaho Fire Lookouts site says the Pete King Wildfire burned this tower.3 The Forest Service list also has a second Grouse Point, three miles north of the Lochsa Ranger Station.2,4 Firelookout.com dates that one to 1933, describes it as a 30-foot pole L-4 tower, and says the 1934 Pete King Fire burned it.4 A second Idaho Fire Lookouts page says it burned in the Pete King Fire too.5 Because both towers carry the Grouse Point name, check which one a source describes before you rely on it.

The Forest Fire Lookout Association's Idaho list marks this Grouse Point as gone.6

The Idaho Fire Lookouts page lists the site as a hike-in and says it burned, but it does not describe what remains.3 We found no source that describes the site today, so we cannot say whether any footings or other traces survive, or whether the public may visit.

  1. Grouse Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/grousepoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Clearwater National Forest Lookouts, USDA Forest Service, https://www.fs.usda.gov/media/259185 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Grouse Point Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/selway-region/grouse-point-lookout-2/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Grouse Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/grousepoint269.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  5. Grouse Point Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/grouse-point-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  6. Idaho lookout list, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on the location by 950 m.

    • FFLA: 46.41048, −114.69014
    • Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com): 46.41076, −114.67777

    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, 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, 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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