The Idaho Transportation Department provides a pair of traffic websites, a
Low Bandwidth Site and a
High Bandwidth Site which, as expected, provides more features and better interactivity. The High Bandwidth website contains six separate pages from which one may learn of
Traffic Speeds,
Weather Stations,
Electronic Signs,
Transit Routes,
Mountain Passes, or
Traffic Cameras. On the latter page one may click on the cameras shown on the map to view current road conditions throughout the state. The majority of the rural web cameras have associated weather stations allowing viewers to ascertain local weather conditions and tendencies. Many cameras transmit several different views, from as few as two to as many as eight. These views, instead of being alloted separate pages, are cycled on a single page, changing views every couple of seconds.
This, the furthest north of the Idaho web cameras, is on US Highway 95 on a hill named Five Mile Hill, about 8 miles west of the interestingly named settlement of
Good Grief, less than five miles south of the Canada-US border and 17 miles north of Bonners Ferry. On the southeast side of the highway beside a pullout, the two cameras here provide a view of the road surface and another with the camera looking northeast toward
Good Grief.