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 allotted separate pages, are cycled on a single page, changing views every five seconds to every five minutes.
On the west side of Highway 93 at the junction with Highway 43, this camera is actually in Montana, although it appears on the Idaho Transportation Department web cameras website. Here at the summit of Lost Trail Pass are a rest area, hiking trails and several historical markers. The two cameras look north at Montana and south into Idaho. Coordinates given are for the north looking view. The cameras are mounted on a typical fenced steel tower with accompanying weather monitoring instruments.