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Fire lookout · Idaho County, Idaho

Lone Pine Lookout

Also known as Lone Pine Point

Idaho County 30-foot pole patrol tower, built 1934 on the Moose Creek district and abandoned 1950; listed as gone, and no source describes the site today.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Listed as gone; no source we read describes what 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?
Unknown

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a tower30-foot pole patrol tower with an L-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1934
Height
30 ft (9.1 m)
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Nez Perce National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Idaho County, Idaho
Coordinates
46.08244, −115.01810
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
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History

Then and now

  1. 1934 Built30-foot pole patrol tower; an undated Moose Creek inventory gives 1932 for a tower with an L-4 cabSources: fs.usda.gov, firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. No record between 1934 and 1950
  3. 1950 AbandonedListed as abandoned in 1950Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  4. 1957 EventLookout site transferred from the Bitterroot National Forest to the Nez Perce National ForestSource: idaholookouts.weebly.com
  5. 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.

Lone Pine Lookout was a 30-foot pole patrol tower in Idaho County, about six miles southwest of the Moose Creek Ranger Station.1,2

Most sources date the tower to 1934.1,2,3,4 An undated inventory of lookouts on the Moose Creek Ranger District, quoted by the Forest Lookouts site, instead gives 1932 for a 30-foot tower with an L-4 cab. We have not settled which year is right.4

The tower was abandoned in 1950.2,3,4 According to the Forest Lookouts site, the site passed from the Bitterroot to the Nez Perce National Forest in 1957.4 Other listings name the Nez Perce as the forest today.1,2,3

The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists the tower as gone.5 No source we read describes what, if anything, remains at the site, or whether it is open to visitors. Anyone planning a visit should ask the Nez Perce National Forest first.

  1. Nez Perce National Forest Lookouts, U.S. Forest Service, https://www.fs.usda.gov/media/259204 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Lone Pine Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/lonepine.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Lone Pine Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/selway-region/lone-pine-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Lone Pine, Forest Lookouts (Idaho), https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/lone-pine.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  5. 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: design, height, 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, height, status, agency, 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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