Drive-UpAbandonedElevation: 7649′Salmon National Forest History 1924: Unimproved lookout site 1928: 60′ steel tower installed 1965: Last season, regularly staffed 1968: Abandoned Our Notes Ulysses Mountain consisted of log cabin living quarters and a 60-foot Aeromotor steel tower. The most recent pictures I could find before my visit were from 2012, and...
Grave Point Lookout is an easily accessible drive up tower with an incredible view.
In the fall of 2021, the Idaho Fire Lookouts team hiked to Diablo Mountain to meet and interview lookout Nate Raff. Nate has been kind enough to share a ton of information and knowledge about lookouts, stories about his time on a Helitac crew, and as a volunteer manning and rebuilding lookouts.
There is next to nothing left at this lookout site, destroyed in 1961.
Only cement foundations remain at the site of this lookout - where 2 separate 100+ foot towers once stood.
There is nothing left of this lookout tower, destroyed in 1963.
The only standing L-6 Lookout in Idaho
Nate Raff Answers Our Crazy Questions- Interview Teaser
This 41' TT R-6 flat cab tower is on the rental program
The site of a crows nest, 2-tree platform and an L-4 tower. AND A MYSTERY!
