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Lee, Russell, photographer. Road cut into the barren hills which lead into Emmett, Idaho. Emmett Idaho United States, 1941. July. Photograph. Farm Security Administration/Office of War information. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017877582/.

MAPS

  • Alt, David D., and Donald W. Hyndman. Roadside geology of Idaho. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1989.
  • Benchmark Maps. Idaho road & recreation atlas. Scale varies. Santa Barbara, California: Benchmark Maps, various years.
  • DeLorme Mapping Company. Idaho atlas & gazetteer. Map, Scale 1:250,000. 1 in. represents 4 miles. Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping, various years.
  • Dougal, W.H., engraver; compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, chiefly for military purposes, by order of John B. Floyd. Map of the state of Oregon and Washington Territory. Map, Scale 1:1,500,000. Washington, D.C.: The Bureau, 1859.
  • Idaho Bureau of Highways. Bureau of Highways map of the state of Idaho: showing state highways and connecting roads, airports and landing fields. Map, Scale approximately 1:1,150,000. Boise, Idaho: Department of Public Works, 1931.
  • Idaho Department of Highways, Highway Planning Survey; in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads. Rural traffic flow map, State of Idaho. Map, Scales differ. Boise, Idaho: Idaho Department of Highways, various years.
  • Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Historic Road Maps. University of Texas Libraries.
  • Idaho Highway Map (PDF), VisitIdaho.org
  • ROAD MAPS — Idaho Pamphlet File – This file at the Boise Public Library includes folding road maps from a variety of publishers.

GIS MAPS

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a digital system that organizes geographic data. Here are a few examples of GIS applications:

AUTO TOUR ROUTES, BACKCOUNTRY BYWAYS, AND ROADSIDE HISTORY

  • Forest Service Guides to Idaho Auto Tour Routes:
    • National Park Service, National Trails System–Intermountain Region. National historic trails: auto tour route interpretive guide: the tangle of trails through Idaho. Salt Lake City, Utah: National Park Service, Department of the Interior, 2008. Online copy available from the Government Publishing Office at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS108158. Access February 10, 2019.
    • Visit Destinations  – To find auto tour routes, choose “Idaho” from the states category, and “Scenic Driving” from the list of activities.
  • Alt, David D., Donald W. Hyndman. Roadside geology of Idaho. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1989.
  • Clark, Bob. Scenic driving Idaho. Helena, Montana: Falcon, 1998.
  • Conley, Cort. Idaho for the Curious: a guide. Cambridge, Idaho: Backeddy Books, 1982. 1st ed.
  • Derig, Betty B. Roadside history of Idaho. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1996.
  • Helfrich, Devere, Helen Helfrich and Thomas Hunt; maps by Herman Zittel; photographs by Helen Helfrich, Betsy Washburn, and Paul Houghton.Emigrant trails west: a guide to trail markers placed by Trails West, Inc. along the California, Applegate, Lassen, and Nobles’ emigrant trails in Idaho, Nevada, and California. Reno, Nev. (P.O. Box 12045, Reno 89510): Trails West, 1984.
  • Huegel, Tony; maps and cover by Jerry Painter. Idaho Byways: backcountry drives for the whole family. Idaho Falls, Idaho: Post Co., 1997.
  • Idaho highway historical marker guide (PDF). Boise, Idaho: Idaho Transportation Department, 2018. https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Idaho-Highway-Historical-Marker-Guide.pdf. Accessed February 10, 2019.
  • Idaho Public Television. Outdoor Idaho. Idaho’s scenic byways. Boise, Idaho: Idaho Public Television, 2013.
  • London, Bill; illustrated by Cliff Winner. Country roads of Idaho. Castine, Maine: Country Roads Press, 1995.
  • Main Oregon Trail back country byway: Three Island Crossing to Bonneville Point. Boise, Idaho: Oregon-California Trails Association, Idaho Chapter: U.S. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Land Management, 2008.
    Tourbook guide. Idaho, Montana & Wyoming. Heathrow, Florida: AAA Publishing, years vary.
  • US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Owyhee Uplands backcountry byway guide: Idaho/Oregon. Boise, Idaho: US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), [between 2012 and 2018]. https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/OwyBywayGuide_2016_web.pdf. Accessed June 3, 2019.

EARLY ROADS

  • Idaho ghost towns, then and now: early towns, military roads, stage stations, early forts, overlay of modern road system. Map, Scales differ. [place of publication unknown]: R.N./M.L. Preston, 2000. – Contains:
    Territory of Idaho, 1879, Map 1 — Territory of Idaho, 1883, [Map 1 verso] — Idaho, 1895, Map 2 — The Rand-McNally new commercial atlas map of Idaho, 1912 [Map 2 verso] — Idaho, 1895, northern section, Map 3 [with overlay] — Idaho, 1895, s.w. section, Map 4 [with overlay] — Idaho, 1895, s.e. section, Map 5 [with overlay].
  • Lewis, Wallace Glenn. Idaho’s north and south route: its significance and historical development since territorial days. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho, 1991.
  • McGill, James W., and Patricia A. King-McGill. Big Butte stage station pioneers and those of other sites on the Blackfoot, Bonanza, Challis, and Wood River Stage Co. routes. Arco, Idaho: McGill Publishing : Arco Advertiser, 2002.
  • Preston, R.N. Maps of early Idaho: old gold mines, Indian battle grounds, old military roads, old forts, overland stage routes, early towns. Corvallis, Oregon: Western Guide Publishers, 1972.
  • Potucek, Martin. Idaho’s historic trails: from Lewis and Clark to railroads. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Press, 2003.
  • Robb, Thomas Howard. Routes to southwestern Idaho, 1855-1884. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho, 1971.

Old Central Oregon Military Road

  • Oregon military wagon road. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information in relation to lands patented to the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road Company, the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain, and The Dalles Military Wagon Road Company. H.R. Exec. Doc. No. 131, 49th Cong., 1st Sess. (1886) https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/indianserialset/4139/. Accessed February 10, 2019.

Mullan Road

  • McDermott, Paul D., editor, Ronald E. Grim, and Philip Mobley. The Mullan Road: Carving a Passage through the Frontier Northwest, 1859-62. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2015.
  • Coleman, Louis C., Leo Rieman, and B.C. Payette, compiler. Captain John Mullan; his life: Building the Mullan road; as it is today and interesting tales of occurrences along the road. Montreal: Printed for Payette Radio Ltd., 1968.
  • Petersen, Keith. John Mullan: the tumultuous life of a western road builder. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 2014.
  • Mullan, Capt. John. Report on the construction of a military road from Fort Walla-Walla to Fort Benton. United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Washington: Govt. print. off, 1863.

Santiam Wagon Road (Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road)

Warren Wagon Road

  • Potucek, Martin. Idaho’s historic trails: from Lewis and Clark to railroads. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Press, 2003.

Planning

  • America’s Highways 1776-1976: A history of the federal-aid program. U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. 1976/1977. https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo69304. Accessed December 21, 2020.
  • Herbst, Rebecca. Idaho bridge inventory: including a history of bridge-building in Idaho, illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams of bridge trusses. Boise, Idaho: Idaho Transportation Department, 1983-
  • Idaho Transportation Department, Division of Transportation Planning in association with CH2M Hill & Olson Planning Consulting. Idaho corridor planning guidebook: approved by the Idaho Transportation Board February 19, 1998. Boise, Idaho: Idaho Transportation Department, Division of Transportation Planning, 1998. 2006 edition available for download from [stacks] Idaho’s Digital Repository.
  • Nybroten, Norman. Some problems of planning and financing roads in sparsely settled public land States : with special reference to Idaho. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, College of Business Administration, 1962.
  • Idaho Transportation Department. Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). Boise, Idaho: Idaho Transportation Department, Transportation Planning Division. FY18 to FY24 Submittal.  https://apps.itd.idaho.gov/apps/Fund/stip2018/STIP-Publish.pdf. Accessed February 10, 2019.
  • Idaho Department of Highways, Highway Planning Survey ; in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads. Rural traffic flow map, State of Idaho. Map, Scales differ. Boise, Idaho: Idaho Department of Highways. various years.
  • For more sources of information on road planning, see our Transportation page.

 

This page updated by Ronnie Joiner on December 21, 2020.