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.
Just east of the little village of Myrtle, this camera tower is so named for its location at the confluence of Cottonwood Creek and the Clearwater River. The two cameras look east at the Cottonwood Creek bridge and west toward the Gifford Reubens Road and Myrtle.
Coordinates given are for the west looking view. The cameras are mounted on a typical fenced steel tower with accompanying weather monitoring instruments.