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Nick Wynn Mountain

Idaho County ground cab, an L-4 built in 1940 in the Bitterroot National Forest and destroyed in 1955; no source describes what remains.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Destroyed in 1955; no source 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

We do not know the access rules. Check with the land manager before you go.

Road to the top?
Unknown
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in and abandoned; no source describes a trail or current access.

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cab on the ground, not on a towerThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1940
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Bitterroot National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Idaho County, Idaho
Coordinates
45.77278, −114.75932
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-nick-wynn-mountain

View from the cab

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History

Then and now

  1. 1940 BuiltL-4 cabSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  2. No record between 1940 and 1955
  3. 1955 DestroyedDestroyed in 1955Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left.

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 (click the spot there to list them, with dates and downloads).

Story

Researched 10 Oct 2026, fact-checked.

Nick Wynn Mountain had an L-4 cab, built in 1940.1,2 It stood on the ground rather than on a tower, in the Bitterroot National Forest, six miles north-northwest of the Magruder Ranger Station in Idaho County.1,3 The firelookout.com page gives the site's elevation as 5,750 feet.1

The cab was destroyed in 1955, and both pages agree on the design and dates.1,2 The Idaho Fire Lookouts site labels it a hike-in site that was abandoned.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association list also marks it as gone, with coordinates of 45.77278 and -114.75932.3

We found no source that describes what remains on the mountain today, or whether the public may visit. Anyone planning a trip should ask the Bitterroot National Forest about access first.

  1. Nick Wynn Mtn. Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/nickwynnmtn.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Nick Wynn Mountain, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/selway-region/nick-wynn-mountain/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. 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. 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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