Idaho State Highway 200
state highway in Bonner County, Idaho, United States
State Highway 200 (SH-200) is an east–west state highway in northern Idaho, United States. It travels along the north side of Lake Pend Oreille and the Clark Fork River between the Sandpoint area and the Montana border, where it continues as Montana Highway 200. The highway is also a national scenic byway that is named the Pend Oreille Scenic Byway. This state highway is part of a continuous chain of similarly numbered state highways that stretch approximately 1,356 miles (2,182 km) from Minnesota to Idaho.
Route description
Idaho SH-200 starts at a junction with U.S. Highway 95 in Ponderay, a small community north of Sandpoint. The highway heads eastward along the north shores of lake Pend Oreille at the very feet of the Cabinet Mountains with several turnouts and scenic overlooks. After the town of Clark Fork it then enters the Clark Fork River Valley following the Clark Fork River and ends at the Montana border just before Heron, MT where it becomes Montana Highway 200.
The road passes through the towns of Ponderay, Kootenai, Hope, East Hope, and Clark Fork.
ID-200 is the westernmost portion of a chain of Highway 200s which extends east through Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota. At only 33 miles (53 km) in length, Idaho's Highway 200 is the shortest in the chain while Montana's Highway 200 is the longest.
“Idaho State Highway 200” enters the record as state highway in Bonner County, Idaho, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Idaho, State and Highway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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