KOOTENAI COUNTY
SPADES MOUNTAIN
Coeur d'Alene National Forest
51N-2W-2
51N-2W-2
1923: camp (Kresek)
1926: 50-foot pole tower with 7x7 cab (Kresek)
1941: 46-foot Aermotor MC-40 tower (Kresek)
October 7, 1945: "Mabel Rose and Marjorie Olson, both 19-year-old Idaho girls, comprise the staff of the lookout on 5,026 foot Spades mountain, about 15 miles northeast of Coeur d'Alene." (La Crosse Tribune)
1952: 67-foot treated timber tower with R-6 cab (Kresek)
1963: The Aermotor tower was moved to Long Mountain. (Kresek)
July 2015: The tower was removed.