Fire lookout · Idaho
Jungle Point Lookout
Clearwater NF Jungle Point: an L-4 tower half a mile SE of the summit, 1930s, abandoned and gone; the Selway page describes a different camp.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned and gone, per Idaho Fire Lookouts and firelookout.com; 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.
- Road to the top?
- No, you have to hike
- Trail
- Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Type unknownL-4 tower half a mile southeast of the summitThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Clearwater National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Idaho
- Coordinates
- 46.20038, −115.68538
- 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
No dated events recorded yet: nobody has recorded when this lookout was built or when it came down.
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 (opens another site) (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).
Story
Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
Idaho County has two lookouts called Jungle Point.1,2 This story follows the one on the Clearwater National Forest, about 14 miles east-northeast of Kooskia, at 4,000 feet.3,1,4
Its design was an L-4 tower set half a mile southeast of the summit.3,1 Sources date it to the 1930s.3,1,4 The Clearwater National Forest list places it in section 15, township 33 North.4
All three sources list the lookout as abandoned, and two of them say it is gone.3,1,4
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in.3 No source describes what, if anything, remains at the site today.3,1,4
The other Jungle Point is a camp on the Nez Perce National Forest, about 13 miles south-southeast of Grangeville.2 Firelookout.com dates that camp to 1930 and says it was abandoned in 1942.2 Idaho Fire Lookouts files the camp under its Selway region page, not this tower.5
- Jungle Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://firelookout.com/id/junglepoint270.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Jungle Point Fire Lookout, firelookout.com, https://firelookout.com/id/junglepoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Jungle Point Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/jungle-point-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Clearwater National Forest Lookouts, US Forest Service, https://www.fs.usda.gov/media/259185 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Jungle Point, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/selway-region/jungle-point/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
Sources
- Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com) (opens another site) Gave us: name, location, status, 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
- Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com) (opens another site) 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
- Firefinder research Gave us: summary, design, status, agency, visiting details, 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
More about this lookout elsewhere
- Jungle Point Fire Lookout Tower (firelookout.com) (opens another site)
- Clearwater National Forest Lookouts (US Forest Service) (opens another site)
- Jungle Point Fire Lookout (firelookout.com) (opens another site)
- Jungle Point Lookout on idahofirelookouts.com (opens another site)
- Jungle Point on idahofirelookouts.com (opens another site)
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