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Fire lookout · Shoshone County, Idaho

Hulliman Peak Lookout

Shoshone County, ID tower on Hulliman Peak in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest; built 1934 as a 30-foot pole L-4 tower, destroyed 1964. No source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1964 (one source says 1963); no source 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.

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

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower30-foot pole tower with L-4 cab, plus a crow's nest about 1.5 miles NNW on a Cabin Peak spurThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
30 ft (9.1 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Coeur d'Alene National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Shoshone County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.82472, −115.92008
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 Built30-foot pole tower with L-4 cabSources: firelookout.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. 1934 StaffedOnnie Takkenan listed as staff, citing Wallace Press-Times of 7 June 1934Source: idahofirelookouts.com
  3. 1935 StaffedJoe Rogers listed as staff, citing Wallace Press-Times of 25 June 1935Source: idahofirelookouts.com
  4. 1936 StaffedSpokane Chronicle, 4 September 1936: forest service officials called the lookout in because of rain and cool weatherSource: idaholookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1937 StaffedL. Nemila listed as staffSource: idahofirelookouts.com
  6. No record between 1937 and 1964
  7. 1964 DestroyedFirelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts give 1964; the Forest Lookouts page gives 1963Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  8. 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.

Hulliman Peak lies in Shoshone County, Idaho, about 24 miles north of Wallace, in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest.1 The lookout went up in 1934 as a 30-foot pole tower carrying an L-4 cab.1,2 A crow's nest stood about a mile and a half to the north-northwest, atop a spur of Cabin Peak.1

The Idaho Fire Lookouts site lists Onnie Takkenan as staff in 1934 and Joe Rogers in 1935, and it gives L. Nemila for 1937.3 The first two entries cite Wallace Press-Times reports from June of those years.3 A Spokane Chronicle item from September 4, 1936, quoted on the Forest Lookouts page, reports that Forest Service officials recalled the lookout, since rainy, chilly weather had eased the fire risk.2

Two sources give 1964 as the year the tower was destroyed.1,3 The Forest Lookouts page gives 1963 instead.2 The tower is gone under either date.1,2 Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the peak as a hike-in site.3 No source we read describes what, if anything, remains on the summit, or whether the site is open to visitors.

  1. Hulliman Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/hullimanpeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Hulliman Peak, Forest Lookouts (Idaho), https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/hulliman-peak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Hulliman Peak Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/cda-region/hulliman-peak-lookout/ (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: design, 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, height, 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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