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 five seconds to every five minutes.
On the east side of Highway 41, this tower has a pair of hi res cameras keeping an eye on the situation up and down the highway. 2.5 miles south of the town of Spirit Lake, the camera tower is on the east side of the highway. Coordinates given are for the north looking view. The cameras are mounted on a typical fenced steel tower with accompanying weather monitoring instruments.