Little Joe Rd in Northern Idaho

[ReneeG]

Has anyone taken the Little Joe Rd from Regis Montana to Avery, Idaho? This would be Hwy 90 to the Mullan Gulch Rd, to the Little Joe Rd or 282? We want to visit the St. Joe River and will be coming from the Salmon Idaho area. Thanks.

[SweetLou]

The road is good and gravel but if you don't mind a dirty car it is not a problem at all.

[ReneeG]

paulj wrote:
Some history about the railroad to Avery at this
Hiawatha bike trail page. The section of railroad from I90 to Avery is now a bike trail, complete with trestles and tunnels.

https://www.ridethehiawatha.com/history

This I knew but had never been there. Very interesting article. Thank you.

[paulj]

Some history about the railroad to Avery at this
Hiawatha bike trail page. The section of railroad from I90 to Avery is now a bike trail, complete with trestles and tunnels.

https://www.ridethehiawatha.com/history

[cptqueeg]

KD4UPL wrote:
In case you care, I suspect that Little Joe road is named after the electric locomotives that the Milwaukee railroad used to run thru that area back in the 1960s and 1970s. They were originally built to be shipped to the Soviet Union but never went because of political reasons. The railroad crews knew their history and named them Little Joes after Joseph Stalin.

Interesting! A straight electric locomotive was moving freight in the old days.

[ReneeG]

KD4UPL wrote:
In case you care, I suspect that Little Joe road is named after the electric locomotives that the Milwaukee railroad used to run thru that area back in the 1960s and 1970s. They were originally built to be shipped to the Soviet Union but never went because of political reasons. The railroad crews knew their history and named them Little Joes after Joseph Stalin.

I assumed it was named after the St. Joe river and mountains.

[KD4UPL]

In case you care, I suspect that Little Joe road is named after the electric locomotives that the Milwaukee railroad used to run thru that area back in the 1960s and 1970s. They were originally built to be shipped to the Soviet Union but never went because of political reasons. The railroad crews knew their history and named them Little Joes after Joseph Stalin.

[ReneeG]

cptqueeg wrote:
Avery was an awesome place! Huge burnt out red cedar snags from the fire of 1910 and an absurd number of wooden Burlington Northern railroad trestle bridges. Hope it's weathered the last 40 years better than most places have.

It's definitely on my list to revisit.

Thanks for the feedback!!

[cptqueeg]

Avery was an awesome place! Huge burnt out red cedar snags from the fire of 1910 and an absurd number of wooden Burlington Northern railroad trestle bridges. Hope it's weathered the last 40 years better than most places have.

It's definitely on my list to revisit.

[ReneeG]

paulj wrote:
From Google Maps, it looks like Little Joe Rd in Montana is gavel - judging by a mix of Streetview and Sat. But on the Idaho side it looks like pavement - that is I can see center line paint in the Sat view (no streetview). The high point is on the stateline.

From the bike route profile, there's about a 3000 ft climb to the pass.

I was thinking the same. Now we won't be going THAT direction! We'll have to go north past Mullan and then come down.

[paulj]

From Google Maps, it looks like Little Joe Rd in Montana is gavel - judging by a mix of Streetview and Sat. But on the Idaho side it looks like pavement - that is I can see center line paint in the Sat view (no streetview). The high point is on the stateline.

From the bike route profile, there's about a 3000 ft climb to the pass.