FOREST LOOKOUTS
  • IDAHO
  • ADAMS COUNTY
    • Bacon Hill
    • Council Mountain
    • Crooked River Peak
    • Granite Mountain
    • Horse Mountain
    • Indian (Mica)
    • Jackley
    • Kinney Point
    • Lick Creek Point
    • Lockwood Point
    • Peck Mountain
    • Pollock Mountain
    • Smith Mountain
  • BANNOCK COUNTY
    • Chinks Peak
    • Scout Mountain
    • Sedgewick Peak
  • BEAR LAKE COUNTY
    • Meade Peak
  • BENEWAH COUNTY
    • Beaver Mountain
    • Beaver Ridge
    • Carpenter Mountain
    • Charles Butte
    • Davis Point
    • East Dennis
    • Emida Peak
    • Engle Mountain
    • John Point
    • Lindstrom Peak
    • Nakarna Mountain
    • Pettis Point
    • Reeds Baldy
    • Rochat Peak
    • St. Joe Baldy
    • Squaw Hump
    • Sunset Mountain
    • Tyson Peak
    • West Dennis
    • Willow Peak
  • BINGHAM COUNTY
    • East Butte
  • BLAINE COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bell Mountain
    • Red Hill
  • BOISE COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bull Trout Point
    • Deadwood
    • Dry Buck Mountain
    • Hawley Mountain
    • Jackson Peak
    • Jackson Peak
    • Observation Peak
    • Packer John
    • Picket Mountain
    • Pilot Peak
    • Red Mountain
    • Scott Mountain
    • Shaffer Butte
    • Stevens Point
    • Sunset Mountain
    • Thorn Creek Butte
    • Warm Springs Point
  • BONNER COUNTY
    • Antelope Mountain
    • Atlasta
    • Barton Hump
    • Bear Creek
    • Bee Top Mountain
    • Benning
    • Big Meadows
    • Binarch Mountain
    • Blacktail Mountain
    • Blacktail Mountain
    • Blanchard
    • Blue Mountain
    • Bottle Bay
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Bugle Ridge
    • Butler
    • Cape Horn Peak
    • Caribou (Association)
    • Caribou Hill
    • Clagstone
    • Cottonwood Point
    • Cuban Hill
    • Delyle Ridge
    • East Fork Peak
    • Elk Ridge
    • Elmira Peak
    • Experimental
    • Experimental Spur
    • Faset Peak
    • Gisborne Mountain
    • Gold Peak
    • Granite Mountain
    • Grouse Mountain
    • Honey Mountain
    • Hoodoo
    • Howe Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Jasper Mountain
    • Johnson Peak
    • Lakeview
    • Lakeview
    • Lightning Mountain
    • Lightning Peak
    • Little Blacktail
    • Little Grass
    • Long Mountain
    • Lost Creek Ridge
    • Lunch Peak
    • Moose Mountain
    • Mount Pend Oreille
    • Newport Hill
    • Nickleplate Mountain
    • Packsaddle Mountain
    • Plowboy Mountain
    • Poirier Tree Farm
    • Prater Mountain
    • Quartz Mountain
    • Rapid Lightning
    • Reeder Mountain
    • Roberts mountain
    • Round Top Mountain
    • Sandpoint Baldy
    • Scotchman Peak
    • Scout Point
    • Shaffer Peak
    • Smith Mountain
    • Spruce Divide
    • Stone Johnny
    • Strawberry Mountain
    • Sundance Mountain
    • Tola P:oint
    • Trestle Peak
    • Trout Peak
    • Uleda Point
    • Watson Mountain
    • Whitetail Butte
  • BONNEVILLE COUNTY
    • Black Mountain
  • BOUNDARY COUNTY
    • Bald Eagle
    • Bear Point
    • Bethlehem Mountain
    • Black Mountain
    • Blue Joe
    • Bonners Ferry R.S.
    • Browns mountain
    • Buck Mountain
    • Buckhorn Mountain
    • Burton Peak
    • Bussard Mountain
    • Camels Prairie
    • Canida Peak
    • Caribou Ridge
    • Cedar Ridge
    • Clifty Mountain
    • Continental Mountain
    • Cooks Peak
    • Copeland
    • Copper Mountain
    • Cutoff Peak
    • Deer Ridge
    • Dodge Peak
    • Early Ridge
    • Eddy Peak
    • Farnham Peak
    • Fisher Peak
    • French Ridge
    • Goat Mountain
    • Goblin Knob
    • Grass Mountain
    • Green Bonnet
    • Hall Mountain
    • Harrison Peak
    • Harvey (Mission)
    • Hogue Mountain
    • Horton Ridge
    • Hughes Ridge
    • Hunt Peak
    • Katka Peak
    • Little Snowy Top
    • Lookout Mountain
    • McCormick Ridge
    • Myrtle Peak
    • Queen Mountain
    • Roman Nose Peak
    • Sand Peak
    • Smith Peak
    • Solomon Mountain
    • Squawman Peak
    • Timber Ridge
    • Tungston Mountain
    • Twentymile Peak
    • Two Tail
    • Wall Mountain
    • West Fork
    • White Mountain
  • BUTTE COUNTY
    • Big Southern Butte
  • CAMAS COUNTY
    • Fairfield
    • Iron Mountain
    • Lick Creek
    • Paradise Peak
  • CANYON COUNTY
    • Big Tower
  • CASSIA COUNTY
    • Mt. Harrison
    • Pike Mountain
    • Trapper Peak
  • CLARK COUNTY
    • Lookout Butte
    • Lookout Point
  • CLEARWATER COUNTY
    • Aldermand Ridge
    • Angel Butte
    • Armstrong Peak
    • Balancing Rock
    • Bald Knob
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bar Point
    • Bear Butte
    • Beaver Butte
    • Benton Butte
    • Bertha Hill
    • Big Horn Point
    • Billings
    • Birch Ridge
    • Black Mountain
    • Blacklead Mountain
    • BM Hill
    • Boehls Butte
    • Brown's Creek #1
    • Brown's Creek #2
    • Browns Rock
    • Bruin Hill
    • Buck Butte
    • Cave Point
    • Chateau Rock
    • Clarke Mountain
    • Cold Spring
    • Cook Mountain
    • Crooked Fork
    • Dan Lee (Dewey)
    • Deadhorse
    • Doris Point
    • Dull Axe
    • Eagle Point
    • Elk Butte
    • Elk Mountain
    • Fly Hill
    • Gold Butte
    • Green Mountain
    • Hemlock Butte.
    • Horseshoe Lake
    • Huckleberry Butte
    • Jericho Mountain
    • Lean-to Ridge
    • Little Green Mountain
    • LUNDE PEAK
    • Orofino Creek
    • Osier Ridge
    • Pot Mountain
    • Scofield
    • Scurvy Mountain
    • Shanghai
    • Silver Butte
    • Stocking Meadows
    • The Nub
    • Township Butte
    • Wallow Mountain
    • Whiskey Butte
  • CUSTER COUNTY
    • Basin Butte
    • Big Soldier
    • Bowery Guard Station
    • Cape Horn Peak
    • Cottonwood Point
    • Cougar Creek
    • Custer
    • Deadwood Point
    • Estes Mountain
    • Feltham Creek Point
    • Greyhound Mountain
    • Grouse Creek Peak
    • Grouse Peak
    • Horton Peak
    • Iron Creek Point
    • Little Soldier Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Loon Creek Point
    • McGowan Peak
    • Meridian Peak
    • Mount Greylock
    • Pinyon Peak
    • Potaman Peak
    • Red Wing (Sheep)
    • Rookie Point
    • Ruffneck Peak
    • Sawtooth Valley
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Sherman Peak (Trap)
    • Sliderock Ridge
    • Summit Rock
    • Thompson (Iron)
    • Wildhorse
  • ELMORE COUNTY
    • Bennett Mountain
    • Cayuse Point
    • Danskin Peak
    • Grouse Creek Butte
    • HORSE HEAVEN (e)
    • House Mountain
    • Lava Mountain
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Steel Mountain
    • Swanholm
    • Trinity Peak
  • FREMONT COUNTY
    • Big Springs
    • Bishop Mountain
    • Elk Butte
    • High Point
    • Warm River Butte
  • GEM COUNTY
    • Squaw Butte
  • IDAHO COUNTY (A-L)
    • Anderson Butte
    • Ant Hill
    • Archer Point
    • Arctic Point
    • Austin Ridge
    • Bad Luck Point
    • Bailey Mountain
    • Bald Mountain (CNF)
    • Bally Mountain
    • Barren Hill
    • Bat Point
    • Battle Creek
    • Bear Mountain
    • Bear Pete
    • Bear Point
    • Bear Wallow
    • Beargrass
    • Beaver Jack
    • Beaver Ridge
    • Bell Point
    • Bemis Point
    • Big Burn Point
    • Big Creek (Patrol)
    • Big Creek Point
    • Big Hill
    • Big Hill (P)
    • Big Rock (62)
    • Big Sand
    • Black Butte
    • Blackhawk Mountain
    • Blacktail (Frisco)
    • Blacktail Butte
    • Blue Joint
    • Buffalo Hump
    • Burnt Knob
    • Burnt Knob
    • Burnt Strip
    • Butts Creek Point
    • Carey Dome
    • Castle Butte
    • Cedar Knob
    • Chair Point
    • Chicken Peak
    • Cold Mountain
    • Coolwater
    • Corral Hill
    • Cottonwood Butte
    • Cottonwood Butte
    • Cub Point
    • Diablo Mountain
    • Double Creek Ridge
    • Dry Diggins
    • Eakin Point
    • Elk Summit
    • Elkhorn Mountain
    • Falls Point
    • Fish Butte
    • Fish Creek
    • Fog Mountain
    • Freeman Peak
    • Gardiner Peak
    • Grave Butte
    • Grave Peak
    • Grave Point
    • Green Mountain
    • Grouse Ridge
    • Hard Butte
    • Harrington Mountain
    • Heavens Gate
    • Hells Half Acre Mountain
    • Hershey Point
    • Hida Point
    • High Spring
    • Highline
    • Indian Hill
    • Indian Post Office
    • Indian Ridge (Pettibone)
    • Iron Mountain
    • Jay Point
    • Jerry Johnson
    • John Day Mountain
    • Lake Creek Point
    • Lochsa Peak
    • Lone Pine
    • Lookout Butte
  • IDAHO COUNTY (M-W)
    • Magruder Mountain
    • Mammouth Mountain
    • Maple Lake
    • Marble Point
    • Marshall Point
    • Maxwell Point
    • McConnell Mountain
    • Meadow Creek
    • Meeker Ridge
    • Middle Butte
    • Mink Point
    • Moccasin Point
    • Mocus Point
    • Moe Peak
    • Mount Aura
    • Mount George
    • Mud Creek
    • Nelson (Mill Creek)
    • Nezperce Peak
    • Nolan Point
    • North Pole
    • Nut Basin
    • Old Man Point
    • Oregon Butte
    • Pettibone Ridge
    • Pilot Knob
    • Porters Mountain
    • Puzzle Point
    • Quartz Ridge
    • Ramey Ridge
    • Rock Rabbit Point
    • Rocky Point
    • Rocky Point
    • Roots Knob
    • Round Top Mountain
    • Salmon Mountain
    • Savage Ridge
    • Shearer Peak
    • SEABURG POINT
    • Sheep Hill
    • Sheepeater Mountain
    • Shissler Peak
    • Slate Point
    • Spot Mountain
    • Square Mountain
    • Squaw Peak (Wahoo)
    • Steamboat Peak
    • Stoddard Creek Point
    • Swet Lake
    • Three Prong
    • Tony Point
    • Twin Butte
    • Vance Mountain
    • VERMILLION PEAK
    • War Eagle
    • Weasel Point
    • Weitas Butte
    • Wolf Point
    • Wood Hump
    • Woodrat Mountain
    • Wounded Doe Ridge
    • Wylies Peak
  • KOOTENAI COUNTY
    • Bernard Peak
    • Boise Peak
    • Boundary Peak
    • Buckles
    • Burnt Cabin Knob
    • Canfield Butte
    • Carrill Peak
    • Cataract Peak
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Chilco North
    • Chilco South
    • Colt Mountain
    • Copper Mountain
    • Dudley Peak
    • Eagle Peak
    • Echo Peak
    • Elk Mountain
    • Frost Peak
    • Hamilton Mountain
    • Hemlock Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Hudlow Mountain
    • Jackknife Peak
    • Spades Mountain
    • Swan Peak
  • LATAH COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Ball Butte
    • Beals Butte
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Chambers Hill
    • East Gold Hill
    • Flynn Butte
    • Gold Hill
    • Mason Butte
    • McGary Butte
    • Mica Mountain
    • Mineral Mountain
    • Mission Mountain
    • Moscow Mountain (East)
    • Moscow Mountain (West)
    • Mount Margaret
    • Potato Hill
    • Preston Knob (ELO)
    • Prospect Peak
    • Rocky Point
    • Sand Creek
    • Sherwin Point
    • Three Tree Butte
    • Turnbow Point (Patrol)
    • West Emerald
    • West Gold Hill
    • West Twin
  • LEMHI COUNTY
    • Anderson Mountain
    • Alan Mountain
    • Baldy
    • Beartrap
    • Blackbird Mountain
    • Blue Nose
    • Corn Lake
    • Duck Creek Point
    • Flume Creek Point
    • Fly Creek Point
    • Gant Mountain
    • Granite Mountain
    • Haystack Mountain
    • Horse Heaven
    • Hot Springs
    • Indian Peak
    • Indian Point
    • Jureano Mountain
    • Lake Mountain
    • Long Tom
    • Martin Mountain
    • McEleny Mountain
    • Meyers Cove
    • Middle Fork Peak
    • Napolean Hill
    • Oreana
    • Poison Peak
    • Red Rock Mountain
    • Sagebrush
    • Sal Mountain
    • Sheep Mountain...
    • Sheepeater Point
    • Sheephorn Mountain
    • Skunk Camp
    • Sleeping Deer Mountain
    • Square Top
    • Squaw Peak
    • Stein Mountain
    • Stormy Peak
    • Sugarloaf
    • Swan Peak
    • Taylor Mountain
    • Twin Peaks
    • Ulysses Mountain
    • West Horse
    • White Goat
    • Woodtick Summit
  • LINCOLN COUNTY
    • Notch Butte
  • MADISON COUNTY
    • Lookout Mountain
  • MINIDOKA COUNTY
    • Kimama Butte
  • OWYHEE COUNTY
    • South Mountain
  • PAYETTE COUNTY
    • Sand Hollow
  • POWER COUNTY
    • Mosby Butte
  • SHOSHONE COUNTY
    • Adams Peak
    • Agatha Creek
    • Anthony Peak
    • Arid Peak
    • Avery Hill
    • Bad Tom
    • Bald Mountain..
    • Bathtub Mountain
    • Bearskull
    • Beaver Peak
    • Beaver Peak
    • Beetle Hump
    • Berge Peak
    • Bernier Point
    • Big Creek
    • Big Dick Point
    • Binocular Point
    • Black Peak
    • Blackjack Peak
    • Bumblebee Peak
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Cemetery Ridge
    • Conrad Peak
    • Cougar Peak..
    • Dunn Peak
    • Flash Peak
    • Freezeout Ridge (Mtn)
    • Grandmother Mountain
    • Grassy Mountain
    • Griffith Peak
    • Grizzly Mountain
    • Hoyt Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Hulliman Peak
    • Incline Ridge
    • Kellogg Peak
    • Lemonade Peak
    • Little Guard Peak
    • Little Joe Mountain
    • Mallard Peak
    • McDonald Peak
    • Middle Sister Mountain
    • North Snow Peak
    • Pine Point
    • Polaris Peak
    • Pulaski
    • Quarles Peak
    • Snow Peak
    • Spyglass Peak
    • Striped Peak
    • Sunset Peak
    • Surveyors Ridge
    • Taylor Peak
    • West Elk Peak
    • White Peak
  • TETON COUNTY
    • Garns Mountain
  • TWIN FALLS COUNTY
    • Castleford
    • Evans Ranch
    • Unnamed #1
    • Unnamed 2
  • VALLEY COUNTY
    • Acorn Butte
    • Artillary Dome
    • Bear Creek Point
    • Bear Valley Mountain
    • Bearskin
    • Big Baldy Mountain
    • Black Butte....
    • Black Mare
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Brundage
    • Center Mountain
    • Chilcoot Peak
    • Cougar Rock
    • Deer Creek Point
    • Duck Lake
    • Eagan Point
    • Eagle Rock
    • Eagle's Nest
    • East Mountain
    • Eureka Point
    • Fletcher Butte
    • Gold Fork
    • Gold Fork Rock
    • Gray's Peak (North)
    • Horse Mountain
    • Indian Ridge
    • Krassel Knob
    • Lightning Peak
    • Little Baldy
    • Log Mountain (Baldy)
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Peak
    • Meadow Creek
    • Miners Peak
    • Missouri Ridge
    • Morehead Mountain >
      • Work Party - 2015
    • No Business
    • Norton Ridge
    • Parks Peak
    • Pearl Creek Point
    • Pilot Peak
    • Point 7965
    • Rice Peak (Blue Point)
    • Rush Creek Point
    • Shellrock Peak
    • Short Creek
    • Silver Creek Point
    • Split Creek Point
    • Tailholt Peak
    • Teapot Dome
    • Thunderbolt Mountain
    • Tripod Peak
    • Two Point Peak
    • Whitehawk
    • Williams Peak.
  • WASHINGTON COUNTY
    • Cuddy Point
    • Sturgill Peak
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LEMHI COUNTY

BALDY

Salmon National Forest
21N-21E-17
August 22, 1912:   "From officials at the Salmon forest office it is learned that the new pack bridge over Salmon river about a mile below the mouth of Big creek is completed, and already in commission.  It is a cable suspension, 226 feet long, six feet wide in the clear.
      It is also stated that work is now in progress for the survey of the proposed new telephone line from the office in Salmon to the summit of Baldy mountain on the Leesburg summit west of this city.  This is an independent telephone line, intended to facilitate the work and reporting of fire guards during the season of possible fires.  The survey is in charge of F. C. Haman.  It is the ultimate intention to extend this line further, but it will stop at the summit of Baldy this season, about ten miles from town.
      The summit of Baldy mountain is the signal station of a fire guard at present, and it is held down by a son of W.F. Bradley.  From this eminence he can see an extensive scope of country, and can sight a forest fire for many miles in any direction.  It is his duty to visit this lookout frequently, and report to the headquarters at this city whenever he finds the horizon warming up."   (The Lemhi Herald)

September 4, 1913:   "W.B. Hays and family of Tendoy were in Salmon over Sunday.  Mr. Hays has been packing wire and other supplies for the forest service on the job of the new phone line which is being constructed from the top of Baldy mountain, west of this city to a lookout station at the head of Hat creek."   (The Lemhi Herald)

December 5, 1913:  "Another lookout is maintained on the Salmon forest at Baldy mountain or Salmon City peak, which is nine miles by telephone line southwest of Salmon.  At this point and also at Rocky Point, which is due north on the Divide trail are maintained instruments to indicate the exact location of a distant fire.  Each of these is like the face of a clock, a foot and a half in diameter placed horizontally exactly level, a foot and a half high.  The margin of the dial is marked with 360 degrees, instead of hours, and there is but one hand.  Each dial is placed with '0' degree exactly north, and by pointing the hand toward a fire, its exact direction from the lookout is known and the point of intersection of the directions from the two stations, known to the supervisor, enables him to locate the fire very closely.
     A practical test of the instruments in locating a fire between garden Creek on the south bank of the Salmon river last summer, evidenced their accuracy.  This fire was thirty miles distance from either lookout, and numerous valleys and ridges intervened.
      When not used each instrument is protected by a water proof oilcloth hood."  (The Ogden Standard)

August 13, 1915:   "A.M. Bradshaw, the ranger, came to town Monday evening from Baldy mountain to report a small forest fire which had been discovered on the head of Horse creek.  The lookout station on Baldy covers most of the area of the Salmon forest, and it is connected with the home office by telephone; but lightning recently had put the talk-tools out of commission, and the dispatch had to be sent this time by horseback."   (The Salmon Herald)

July 26, 1918:   "The Salmon forest office has a crew of twenty field men now on the job of riding range and installing two new telephone lines.  This is the largest force ever employed from the Salmon office.  Wires will soon be stretched from Baldy mountain to Taylor mountain and from the mouth of Big creek to Long Tom and Blue Nose mountains.  Carl Kriley and S.C. Scribner are at the head of these constructions crews."   (The Idaho Recorder)

​June 30, 1920:
   "Lionel Renner will soon go to take up his work as lookout man on Baldy mountain.  He is a second class scout and is known to be able to identify smoke."   (The Salmon Herald)

1924:  A Salmon Forest lookout report states that this was a 9x9 lookout building and not staffed this season because the surrounding country was visible from other lookouts.

1942:   Abandoned.   (Kresek)

April 6, 1967:   "Funeral services for Lee Cameron Bradley, 78, were held at the Jones Funeral Home Monday, April 3, 1967, at 2 p.m. with Rev. Don I. Smith officiating.
      He was the first lookout on Bald Mountain, west of Salmon, that being the first lookout point used by that Forest."   (The Recorder Herald)
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National Geodetic Survey

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DESIGNATION - BALDY MTN LOOKOUT CABIN
PID - QZ0558
STATE/COUNTY- ID/LEMHI
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - LEESBURG (1989)


STATION DESCRIPTION

DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1945 (JCT)
THE STATION IS THE CENTER OF A DILAPIDATED APPEARING WOODEN
SHACK USED AS AN EMERGENCY LOOKOUT STATION. IT IS ABOUT 6 FEET
SQUARE. IT IS ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF BALDY MOUNTAIN WHICH
IS APPROXIMATELY 5-1/2 MILES SW OF SALMON.

REX'S FIRE LOOKOUT PAGE
IDAHO:  a CLIMBING GUIDE
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