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Peggy Peak

St. Joe National Forest lookout with 1926 and 1934 entries and a 1933 staff listing; the Idaho site says it is gone, with no date for its end.

Gone: The lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. Gone; the Idaho Fire Lookouts site has no date for when it was abandoned or destroyed.

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

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Ground-level cabL-4 cabThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
Unknown
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
St. Joe National Forest
Land
Unknown
Location
Shoshone County, Idaho
Coordinates
47.08648, −115.48588
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. 1926 EventAlidade and cabin at Twin Lakes listedSource: firelookout.com
  2. 1933 StaffedRed Dennis listed for 1933; Boyd Hanna also listed, with no year shownSources: idahofirelookouts.com, idahofirelookouts.com
  3. 1934 EventL-4 cab listed; the sources do not say whether it is the same structure as the 1926 cabinSource: firelookout.com
  4. TodayGoneThe lookout no longer stands. Only the site is left. When it came down is not recorded.

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.

Peggy Peak is a hike-in site in Shoshone County, on St. Joe National Forest land.1,2,3

The earliest entry, from 1926, records an alidade and a cabin at Twin Lakes.1 A 1934 entry lists an L-4 cab.1 The pages do not make clear whether those two entries describe the same structure.

The Idaho Fire Lookouts site lists Red Dennis for 1933.2,4 It also names Boyd Hanna, with no year shown; the page attributes both names to Hardship & Happy Times by Bert Russell.2 The site names three peaks, Angle, Mosquito and Fortune, as the lookout's patrol points.2

The Idaho site lists the lookout as gone but does not have a date for its abandonment or destruction.2 The association's Idaho list also marks it gone.3

We found no source that describes what, if anything, remains on the peak today. The Idaho site labels the lookout hike-in, so any visit would be on foot.2

  1. Peggy Peak Fire Lookout Cabin, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/peggypeak.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Peggy Peak, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/st-joe-clearwater-region/peggy-peak/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Idaho Lookouts, Forest Fire Lookout Association, https://firelookout.org/lookouts/us/id (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Red Dennis, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/lookout-staff/red-dennis/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩

Photos

Peggy Peak
Peggy PeakPhoto: idahofirelookouts.com · source

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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: 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. 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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