4th of July Pass

One last pass before we head down into Coeur d' Alene - 4th of July
Pass. We looked up some history and one of the first roads linking the
Great Plains with the northwest was the Mullan Road, built between
1859 and 1862, built by US Army Lieutenant John Mullan. This road went
through the 4th of July Pass and a section of the road was completed
on July 4, 1861, hence the name. The elevation is only 3,081 feet. I
guess we were expecting the mountain passes to be higher like in
southern portions of the interstate system through the mountains. Some
neat civil engineering history!