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Fire lookout · Clearwater County, Idaho

Little Green Mountain

Clearwater County, ID 74-foot L-6 lookout built 1933 under CTPA, abandoned 1957. A 1936 log cabin is reported in ruins (undated); no source says whether the tower still stands.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

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 sources disagree
Type
Cab on a tower74-foot L-6 towerThe design: L-6
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1933
Height
74 ft (22.6 m)
Elevation
4,741 ft (1,445 m)
Agency
Clearwater Timber Protective Association (CTPA)
Land
Unknown
Location
Clearwater County, Idaho
Coordinates
46.73305, −116.09380
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-little-green-mountain

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 Built74-foot L-6 towerSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. 1936 EventLog cabin on the site; firelookout.com says it is still there, in ruinsSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  3. No record between 1936 and 1954
  4. 1954 EventRepairs made to the tower, per a combined annual report for 1953-54 that Forest Lookouts citesSource: idaholookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1957 AbandonedAbandoned 1957Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  6. 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.

Little Green Mountain, 19 miles north-northeast of Orofino in Clearwater County, Idaho, had a lookout built in 1933.1,2 The tower was 74 feet tall and of the L-6 type, and the site sits at 4,741 feet.1,2

A log cabin is listed at the site in 1936.1,2 The site is listed under the Clearwater Timber Protective Association (CTPA).1,3 Forest Lookouts records repairs to the tower in 1954, citing a combined annual report for 1953-54.3

The tower was abandoned in 1957.1,2

firelookout.com reports the 1936 log cabin as surviving in ruins, though the page gives no date for that observation.1 The sources do not say whether the tower itself still stands. Idaho Fire Lookouts files the site as drive-up, which suggests a road reaches it, but it gives no route.2 We found no source that says whether the site is open to the public.

  1. Little Green Mtn. Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/littlegreenmtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Little Green Mountain, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/little-green-mountain/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Little Green Mountain, Forest Lookouts, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/little-green-mountain.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Photos

Little Green Mtn. in 2017
Little Green Mtn. in 2017 (2017)Photo: Luke Channer, via firelookout.com · source
Little Green Mountain
Little Green MountainPhoto: idahofirelookouts.com · source

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Where sources disagree

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  • Sources disagree on whether it still stands.

    • FFLA: Gone
    • firelookout.com -- Rex Kamstra's Forest Fire Lookout Page: Standing
    • Idaho Fire Lookouts (idahofirelookouts.com): Gone

    idahofirelookouts.com's status is read from a short summary.

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: elevation, agency, photos, 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, photos, 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: 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, 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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