Coeur d'Alene Lake

In law the lake's southern end belongs to the Schitsu'umsh. The tribe told Idaho in 1991 that it would sue for title; the United States brought the case on the tribe's behalf, and on June 18, 2001, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the federal government holds the submerged lands under roughly the lower third of the lake, and part of the St. Joe River, in trust for the tribe. Idaho had conceded that the 1873 reservation took in the lakebed; the dissent argued that statehood in 1890 carried title to the state anyway.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes — 14 mi
  Seventy-two paved miles laid over a railbed poisoned by a century of ore trains.
• Cataldo Mission — 14 mi
  The Schitsu'umsh built it, the 1873 reservation line left it outside, and every August 15 they come back.
• Farragut State Park — 23 mi
  The Navy built its second-largest boot camp 375 miles from the ocean, and still tests submarines on the lake.

More markers nearby

• Restoring the Lake — steps away
• Mullan Road — 5.6 mi
• Submerged Valley — 13 mi
• Old Mission of the Sacred Heart (sq'wt'u) — 14 mi