Duroc: H95 Is Worse Down Here

RE: Major Highway 95 work continues this fall

Duroc: You guys up there bitch and moan about Highway 95 all the time, and you’ve got the best section in the state. I drive it from Moscow to Payette where it hits I-84 at least twice a year (if the weather is good I switch to SH-55 at New Meadows instead), and I’ve been doing that for most of the past 15 years. I don’t hate the road like some people, because I actually prefer the two-lane roads and hate driving on the freeway, but the Highway 95 that runs through Kootenai County is a Cadillac compared to the Datsun that runs through most of the state. From Moscow north to Worley isn’t a good stretch of road. In fact, I’d say the stretch from Potlatch to Plummer is one of the most dangerous sections - I’ve been in grocery store aisles wider than the stretch around Sanders, and I’ve seen cemeteries with fewer crosses than some of the curves of Highway 95 in Benewah County. It’s worse in the dark.

Question: Which stretch of Highway 95 through the Idaho Panhandle do you consider most dangerous now?