Parker Pass Webcam - St Maries, ID
Posted by: T0SHEA
N 47° 20.239 W 116° 40.210
11T E 524917 N 5242703
This is one of about 150 highway traffic cameras in Idaho which cover every major and a great many of the minor thoroughfares in the state, as well as many of the towns and cities.
Waymark Code: WMV972
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 03/17/2017
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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 one 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 north side of Highway 5 about 5 miles west of the town of St Maries, this camera tower of at the west end of a pullout across the road from Benewah Creek Road. The two cameras here provide two views, southwest down Highway 5 and southeast across the highway toward Benewah Creek Road. Coordinates given are for this last view. The cameras are mounted on a typical fenced steel tower with accompanying weather monitoring instruments.