Idaho State Highway 4
{{Short description|State highway in Idaho, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox road
|state=ID
|type=ID
|route=4
|alternate_name=Burke Road, Burke-Canyon Creek Road
|maint=ITD
|map={{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=240|frame-lat=47.500|frame-long=-115.852|zoom=11|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Idaho State Highway 4}}}}
|map_custom=yes
|map_notes=SH-4 highlighted in red
|length_mi=7.380
|established=
|direction_a=West
|terminus_a={{jct|state=ID|I|90}} in Wallace
|direction_b=East
|terminus_b=20px FR 7623 at Burke
|counties=Shoshone
|previous_type=ID
|previous_route=3
|next_type=ID
|next_route=5
}}
State Highway 4 (SH-4) is a state highway in Shoshone County, in the U.S. state of Idaho. It runs {{convert|7.380|mi|km|3}} from Interstate 90 (I-90) in Wallace, east to the ghost town of Burke.
Route description
SH-4 begins at an intersection with I-90 in Wallace, then heads generally northeast through Burke Canyon, past historical markers for Frisco Hill and Burke, ending in Burke. The road continues eastward as National Forest Road No. 7623.{{cite web|author=Idaho Transportation Department|author-link=Idaho Transportation Department|url=http://itd.idaho.gov/hmg/SignIndx.htm|title=Idaho Highway Historical Marker Guide Index|date=May 26, 2005|access-date=2008-12-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081215223302/http://itd.idaho.gov/hmg/SignIndx.htm|archive-date=December 15, 2008|df=}}
History
In the 1930s, Route 4 was envisioned as a cross-state route, to directly connect Wallace to Thompson Falls, Montana over Glidden Pass, as seen on the 1937 map (later routed over Cooper Pass).{{cite map |author1= Texaco |author-link= Texaco |author2= Rand McNally and Company |author2-link= Rand McNally and Company |url = http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps920003-23818.html |title= Road map: Idaho, Mont., Wyo.|year= 1937 |scale= |location= Chicago |publisher=Rand McNally}}{{full citation needed|date=April 2017}} This plan was abandoned due to impassable roads and World War II. Paved SH-4 was truncated at Burke.
National Forest Road 7623 still connects Burke to Montana Secondary Highway 471 leading to Thompson Falls.
Major intersections
{{Jcttop|state=ID|county=Shoshone|length_ref=}}
{{IDint
|location=Wallace
|mile=0.000
|road={{jct|state=ID|I|90|BL|90|dab2=Wallace|city1=Coeur D'Alene|name2=The Harry F. Magnuson Way / Bank Street|city2=Mullan}}
|notes=I-90 exit 62; western terminus.
}}
{{IDint
|location=Burke
|mile=7.380
|road=20px FR 7623 (Forest Service Road 7623)
|notes=Eastern terminus; continues as FR 7623
}}
{{Jctbtm}}
See also
{{stack|{{portal|U.S. Roads|Idaho}}}}
References
{{Reflist|22em}}
External links
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{{Commons category-inline|Idaho State Highway 4}}