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Idaho State Highway 200
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.[3] 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 descriptionIdaho 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. There is another highway called SR 20 in Washington that would complete the chain of Hwy 200s, but ID-200 is no longer directly connected to WA-20.[citation needed] HistorySH-200 was originally part of the National Parks Highway, a national auto trail created in the early 20th century to connect various national parks.[4] In the 1930s, it was designated as State Highway 3, corresponding with the Montana highway's number.[5] From 1941 to 1967, the route was signed as part of U.S. Route 10A.[6] After that highway's decommissioning, Idaho State Highway 200 was created in 1968 to replace it as part of a multi-state effort to renumber highways on the Spokane–Duluth corridor to the same number.[7] By 2007, the portion of Highway 200 west of the US 2/95 intersection had been terminated. Mileposts still display its pre-2007 length. Major intersectionsThe entire route is in Bonner County.
Business route
State Highway 200 Business (SH-200 BUS) is a business route of Highway 200 that runs through Hope, Idaho. It follows the former route of US 10A. See alsoReferences
External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Idaho State Highway 200. KML is from Wikidata
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