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Fire lookout · Boise County, Idaho

Jackson Peak Lookout

Boise NF ground lookout with an L-4 cab recorded in 1932, about 10 miles SW of Lowman; listed gone, one source says removed; no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Sources describe it as abandoned and gone; Forest Lookouts says removed; no source gives a date for either

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?
Yes, you can drive up
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts labels the site drive-up; no current access rule found in the sources read

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
1932
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Boise National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Boise County, Idaho
Coordinates
44.00975, −115.77652
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-jackson-peak-2

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1932 BuiltL-4 cab recorded in 1932 per firelookout.com, Idaho Fire Lookouts and Kresek (via the Forest Lookouts page)Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

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.

This Jackson Peak lookout sat in Boise County on the Boise National Forest, about 10 miles southwest of Lowman, at 7,344 feet.1,2,3

Records show an L-4 cab here in 1932.1,2,3 The Forest Lookouts history gives its location as 8N-6E-20.3 The Forest Fire Lookout Association classes it as a ground lookout rather than a tower.4

The sources describe the lookout as abandoned and gone, and one says it was removed.1,2,3

The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists a separate, standing Jackson Peak lookout at different coordinates, so the two should not be confused.4

No source describes what, if anything, remains at this site today. Idaho Fire Lookouts labels the location drive-up.2 Check with the Boise National Forest before you plan a visit.

  1. Jackson Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/jacksonpeak319b.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Jackson Peak Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/southern-idaho/jackson-peak-lookout-2/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Jackson Peak, Forest Lookouts, idaholookouts.weebly.com, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/jackson-peak1.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Idaho Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, 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: 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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