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Winchester Lake State Park is a public recreation area covering 418 acres (169 ha) on the southern edge of Winchester in Lewis County, Idaho, United States. The state park surrounds 104-acre (42 ha) Winchester Lake at the base of the Craig Mountains. Fish in the lake include rainbow trout, perch, bass, and bluegill.
Interprets the site of a ford over the Snake River on the Oregon Trail, Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes: Benewah, Kootenai, Shoshone: 73 mi 117 km: 2,200–3,280 ft 670–1,000 m: 2004: Comprises a 73-mile (117 km) paved rail trail across the Idaho Panhandle. Winchester Lake State Park: Lewis: 418 acres 169 ha: 3,900 ft 1,200 m: 1969
Winchester Lake (also known as Lapwai Lake) is a man-made body of water located on the south side of Winchester in Lewis County, Idaho. [3] It is the central feature of Winchester Lake State Park. [4] The lake covers 100 acres (40 ha), has an average depth of 23 feet (7.0 m), and is 35 feet (11 m) deep at its deepest point. [2]
Winchester is a city in western Lewis County, Idaho, United States, located on the Camas Prairie in the north central part of the state. The population was 356 at the 2020 census , up from 340 in 2010. [ 3 ]
During the 1920s, in lieu of numbering its highways, Idaho had a system of lettered Sampson Trails. [2] They were marked by businessman Charles B. Sampson of Boise at no expense to the state, using orange-colored shields. [3] By 1929, the trails system had included 6,500 miles (10,500 km) of marked highways that covered most of the state. [4]
Thousand Springs State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area consisting of multiple units — Billingsley Creek, Earl M. Hardy Box Canyon Springs Nature Preserve, Malad Gorge, Niagara Springs, and Ritter Island — in Gooding County, Idaho.
Land of the Yankee Fork State Park is a history-oriented public recreation area covering 521 acres (211 ha) in Custer County, Idaho, United States. The state park interprets Idaho's frontier mining history, including the ghost towns Bayhorse, Bonanza, and Custer. The interpretive center near Challis has a museum and gold panning station. [1]
The wilderness area stretches from the Oregon-Idaho border in the west to the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in the east to the Nevada-Idaho border in the south. The rivers and creeks are deeply eroded into the Owyhee Plateau, resulting in deep canyons. [3] The only roads are rough and there are few trails. There are challenging whitewater rivers.