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The valley contains the major cities of Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Twin Falls, Idaho Falls, and Pocatello. The plain served as an easy pass through the Rocky Mountains for westward-bound settlers on the Oregon Trail , and many settlers chose to settle the area rather than risking the treacherous route through the Blue Mountains and the ...
Lake Pend Oreille (/ ˌ p ɒ n d ə ˈ r eɪ / POND-ə-RAY) [2] in the northern Idaho Panhandle is the largest lake in the U.S. state of Idaho and the 38th-largest lake by area in the United States, with a surface area of 148 square miles (380 km 2).
Missoula is the largest city in Western Montana and the second-largest in the state after Billings. Western Montana, though faring better than much of the nation, was the portion of the state hit hardest by the current economic downturn. [6] [7] The closing of Smurfit-Stone Container in 2009 alone caused the loss of over 2000 jobs through 2012. [8]
There are at least 3,223 named lakes and reservoirs in Montana.The following list contains lists of lakes and reservoirs in Montana by county. A lake is a terrain feature (or physical feature), a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin (another type of landform or terrain feature; that is not global).
Relief map of Montana. The state's topography is roughly defined by the Continental Divide, which splits much of the state into distinct eastern and western regions. [4] Most of Montana's hundred or more named mountain ranges are in the state's western half, most of which is geologically and geographically part of the northern Rocky Mountains.
The Coeur d'Alene Mountains are the northwesternmost portion of the Bitterroot Range, part of the Rocky Mountains, located in northern Idaho and westernmost Montana in the Western United States. The mountain range spans an area of 2,590 square miles (6,708 km 2 ) and its two highest peaks are the 7,352-foot (2,241 m) Cherry Peak and the 6,837 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Lakes of Montana" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 ...
The Big Boulder Lakes are a chain of thirteen small alpine and glacial Paternoster lakes in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the White Cloud Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lakes are located in the upper portion of the Big Boulder Creek watershed east of D. O. Lee Peak.