This is a quick draft Google Earth animation from Lewiston, Idaho to Missoula, Montana along the Clearwater and Lochsa corridors and Highway 12. (use the controller bar to pause the animation if you do not see the town names associated with the white arrows.) I would like to expand this tour in the future. If anyone is interested in helping I would appreciate it.
You can also choose to download this IdahoHighway12.KML file you can open with the Google Earth browser. This way you can turn on the "Photos" layer to see many photographs taken along the river corridors.
This section of Highway 12 goes through remote mountain forest areas and was the last US Highway constructed in 1962. (Wikipedia reference)
This route has been proposed, and a permit granted by the Idaho Transportation Department, to allow megaload equipment weighing as much as 300 tons and as much as 30 feet high and 24 feet wide and would occupy the entire roadway, to be transported over this route. A public hearing is to be held in Boise this Friday November 19 at 9: AM at the Idaho Transportation Department Headquarters - 331 W. State St. in Boise. Idaho Rivers United has more information about this hearing on this web page.
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