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Lindstrom Peak Lookout

1935 L-4 tower on Lindstrom Peak, St. Joe National Forest, four miles south of St. Maries, Idaho; county disputed (Benewah per Forest Lookouts; Shoshone per firelookout.com and the FFLA list); destroyed 1965, and no source describes what remains.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1965; no source describes what, if anything, remains at the site

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?
Yes, you can drive up

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerTower with L-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1935
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
St. Joe National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Shoshone County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.24665, −116.55447
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. 1935 BuiltL-4 tower; a patrol tower about 1 mile southeast is notedSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  2. No record between 1935 and 1965
  3. 1965 DestroyedSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  4. 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.

An L-4 tower was built on Lindstrom Peak in 1935.1,2,3 It stood in the St. Joe National Forest, four miles south of St. Maries, at 4,695 feet.1,2 The Forest Lookouts page describes it as a tower with an L-4 cab and credits the detail to Kresek.3

The sources disagree on the county. The Forest Lookouts page lists the peak under Benewah County.3 Firelookout.com gives Shoshone County, Idaho, and the Forest Fire Lookout Association's Idaho list also places the peak in Shoshone County.1,4

Firelookout.com and Idaho Fire Lookouts both note a patrol tower about a mile to the southeast.1,2 The tower was destroyed in 1965, the same year on all three pages.1,2,3

No source I read describes what, if anything, is left at the site today. Idaho Fire Lookouts tags the site Drive-Up, but no source says whether the public may visit it.2

  1. Lindstrom Peak Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/lindstrompeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lindstrom Peak Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/lindstrom-peak-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Lindstrom Peak - Forest Lookouts, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/lindstrom-peak.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: 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, 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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