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Places worth the detour in Idaho

Detourmap lists 28 places in Idaho, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake Pend Oreille. 26 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature17 Archaeological11
Places
28
Oldest
Fort Hall 1834
Little known
26 of 28
Share of United States
1%

Idaho 28

All 28, best known first.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Idaho?

Lake Pend Oreille. Lake in Kootenai and Bonner counties in Idaho, United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Idaho?

28: 17 nature & landscapes and 11 archaeological & historic sites. 26 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Idaho?

Fort Hall, dated to 1834. 5 of the 28 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Idaho here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Idaho if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Idaho is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.