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Fire lookout · Bonner County, Idaho

Honey Mountain Lookout

Coeur d'Alene NF L-4 cab near Lakeview, built 1940 and gone by 1961; a November 2024 visit report found no remains at the site.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Gone by 1961. Idaho Fire Lookouts gives both Destroyed and Removed for 1961; Forest Lookouts lists it as Removed. A November 9, 2024 visit report found no remains.

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?
Unknown
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in; no source says whether the site is open to the public

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
WoodGoing by its design; no source says so in words.
Built
1940
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Coeur d'Alene National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Bonner County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.90185, −116.49860
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. 1940 BuiltL-4 cab, per firelookout.com, Idaho Fire Lookouts and Forest LookoutsSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1940 and 1961
  3. 1961 DestroyedSource: Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com)
  4. 1961 RemovedIdaho Fire Lookouts: '1961: Destroyed | Removed'; firelookout.com: 'Gone 1961'; Forest Lookouts: 'Removed' with no yearSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  5. 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.

Honey Mountain's lookout stood about five miles south-southwest of Lakeview, in Bonner County, on the Coeur d'Alene National Forest, at 4,580 feet.1,2

The lookout was an L-4 cab, recorded for 1940.1,2,3

Firelookout.com says the cab was gone by 1961.1 Idaho Fire Lookouts gives 1961 as both destroyed and removed, and Forest Lookouts lists it as removed without a year, so it is unclear how it ended.2,3 The Idaho lookout list marks it as gone.4

Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as a hike-in. A post dated November 9, 2024 says its writers went up there and took photographs, but found no tie-downs, concrete piers, wires or trash, and said the spot showed no sign a lookout had ever stood there.2 No source says whether the site is open to the public.

  1. Honey Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/honeymtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Honey Mountain Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/cda-region/honey-mountain-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Honey Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/honey-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Idaho Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Photos

Honey Mountain Lookout
Honey Mountain LookoutPhoto: idahofirelookouts.com · source

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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: 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, 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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