Idaho State Highway 200

State Highway 200
	SH-200 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by ITD
Length	33.348 mi[1] (53.668 km)
Tourist; routes	Pend Oreille Scenic Byway
Major junctions
West end	US-2 / US-95 in Ponderay
East end	MT 200 near Clark Fork
Location
Counties	Bonner
Highway system

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.[2] This state highway is part of a continuous chain of similarly numbered state highways that stretch 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. 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. (The concurrency with US 2 from Newport/Oldtown to Ponderay was removed in the early 2010s, however the legacy of the concurrency continues with the mile markers from Ponderay to Montana.)

History

The route was formerly U.S. Route 10 Alternate.

Major intersections

The entire route is in Bonner County.

Location	mi[1]	km	Destinations	Notes
Ponderay	29.740	47.862	US-2 / US-95 – Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry
Hope	44.610	71.793	SH-200 Bus.
East Hope	46.160	74.287	SH-200 Bus.
	63.118	101.579	MT 200	Continuation into Montana
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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References

Idaho Transportation Department (January 29, 2008). "Milepost Log". Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/byways/2044/maps

External links

Pend Oreille Scenic Byway
National Scenic Byways Program, Pend Oreille Scenic Byway
"Pend Orielle - Idaho Scenic Byway". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17.

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[ID-log-1] Idaho Transportation Department (January 29, 2008). "Milepost Log". Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved 2008-04-28.

[2] ttp://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/byways/2044/maps