Fire lookout · Idaho County, Idaho
Jungle Point
Clearwater National Forest L-4 tower built in the 1930s half a mile southeast of the summit; abandoned and gone, and no source describes the site today.
- Gone
- Access unknown
- Verified
Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Abandoned and gone; 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; no source describes access today
Facts
- Status
- Type
- Cab on a towerL-4 towerThe design: L-4
- Built of
- Not recorded
- Built
- Unknown
- Height
- Unknown
- Elevation
- Unknown
- Agency
- Clearwater National Forest
- Land
- Unknown
- Location
- Idaho County, Idaho
- Coordinates
- 46.28971, −115.67174
- 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
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Story
Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.
Jungle Point sits at 4,000 feet in the Clearwater National Forest, 14 miles east-northeast of Kooskia in Idaho County.1,2
An L-4 tower went up here in the 1930s, half a mile southeast of the summit.1,2,3 A Forest Service list compiled in June 2016 places it in Section 15, T33N, R6E.3
All three sources call the lookout abandoned, and two of them mark it gone.1,2,3
No source describes what, if anything, remains of the tower today. Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in, so it is reached on foot.2
Another Jungle Point, a camp on the Nez Perce National Forest that was abandoned in 1942, is a separate site.4 It lies 13 miles south-southeast of Grangeville, while this one lies 14 miles east-northeast of Kooskia.1,4
- Jungle Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/junglepoint270.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, USDA Forest Service, https://www.fs.usda.gov/media/259185 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
- Jungle Point Fire Lookout, firelookout.com, https://firelookout.com/id/junglepoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
Sources
- Forest Fire Lookout Association (FFLA) - US lookout lists (opens another site) 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
- firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page (opens another site) 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
- 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 Lookout (Idaho Fire Lookouts) (opens another site)
- Clearwater National Forest Lookouts (USDA Forest Service) (opens another site)
- Jungle Point Fire Lookout (firelookout.com) (opens another site)
- FFLA Idaho lookout list (firelookout.org) (opens another site)
- Jungle Point on firelookout.com (Rex Kamstra) (opens another site)
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