Idaho State Highway 200

State Highway 200 marker

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
← SH 167SH 1 →

Idaho State Highway 200 (SH-200) is a two-lane highway from Ponderay, Idaho eastward to the Montana border. The highway has been dedicated as a national scenic byway and given the name Pend Oreille Scenic Byway[2].

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.)

Major intersections

The entire route is in Bonner County.

Locationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Ponderay29.74047.862 US 2 / US 95 – Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry
Hope44.61071.793
SH 200 Business
East Hope46.16074.287
SH 200 Business
​63.118101.579 MT 200Continuation into Montana
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

Route map:

KML is from Wikidata
  1. 1 2 Idaho Transportation Department (January 29, 2008). "Milepost Log". Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  2. ↑ http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/byways/2044/maps

  • 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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