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Tony Point Lookout

Patrol tower on the northernmost minor point, Idaho County: dated 1933, abandoned in 1950, moved to Nez Perce NF administration in 1957; no current site record.

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

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Road to the top?
No, you have to hike
Trail
Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as hike-in.

Facts

Status
Gone
Type
Cab on a towerpatrol tower on the northernmost minor point; L-4 cab on a ten-foot tower per an undated inventoryThe design: L-4
Built of
Not recorded
Built
1933
Height
Unknown
Elevation
Unknown
Agency
Nez Perce National Forest
Land
Federal land
Location
Idaho County, Idaho
Coordinates
46.09337, −114.93527
Registers
Not on a lookout register
This entry
VerifiedResearched, then checked independently. Updated 10 Oct 2026.
Firefinder id
us-id-tony-point

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History

Then and now

  1. 1933 BuiltPatrol tower on the northernmost minor pointSources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, fs.usda.gov
  2. 1934 EventUndated inventory listed under 1934: L-4 cab on a ten-foot towerSource: idaholookouts.weebly.com
  3. No record between 1934 and 1950
  4. 1950 AbandonedAbandoned in 1950Sources: firelookout.com, idahofirelookouts.com, idaholookouts.weebly.com
  5. 1957 EventAdministration of the lookout site moved from Bitterroot National Forest to Nez Perce National ForestSource: idaholookouts.weebly.com
  6. 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.

Tony Point is a former patrol-tower site in Idaho County, Idaho, on the Nez Perce National Forest.1 It lies about 2 miles south of the Moose Creek R.S., at 6,136 feet.1,2,3

The site began as a patrol tower on the northernmost minor point, dated to 1933.1,2,3 Rex's Fire Lookout Page lists an L-4 cab on a ten-foot tower under 1934, taken from an undated inventory of the Moose Creek Ranger District.4

Sources agree the lookout was abandoned in 1950.1,2,4,3 In 1957 the administration of the site moved from the Bitterroot National Forest to the Nez Perce National Forest.4

Idaho Fire Lookouts lists the site as a hike-in, with no current condition given.2 The Forest Fire Lookout Association's list shows it as Tower Gone.5 No source we found describes what remains at the site today, or whether it is open to visitors.

  1. Tony Point Fire Lookout Tower, firelookout.com, https://www.firelookout.com/id/tonypoint.html (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  2. Tony Point Lookout, Idaho Fire Lookouts, https://www.idahofirelookouts.com/selway-region/tony-point-lookout/ (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  3. Nez Perce National Forest Lookouts, U.S. Forest Service, https://www.fs.usda.gov/media/259204 (accessed 2026-10-10). ↩
  4. Tony Point - Forest Lookouts, Rex's Fire Lookout Page, https://idaholookouts.weebly.com/tony-point.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, 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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