West end: SH 55 in Marsing | Length 160.5 km | |
East end: I-84 Business Loop in Hammett Counties Owyhee County, Idaho, El County, Idaho | ||
State Highway 78 (SH-78) is a state highway in Idaho from SH-55 in Marsing to I-84 Business Loop in Hammett
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Map of ID-78, Idaho, USA
Route description
SH-78 starts at the intersection with SH-55 in Marsing and provides access to sites south of the Snake River from there to Bruneau and a few along the north side via SH-167 from Grand View. SH-78 provides access to Bruneau Dunes State Park and itself crosses the Snake into Elmore County before reaching its eastern terminus at Hammett.
History
The basic route of today's SH-78 from Marsing to Bruneau was in place as early as the mid-1930s, mostly as unimproved roads with a few all-weather gravel segments near Bruneau, Grand View and north of Murphy (a segment originally part of SH-45), and some paved segments near Marsing as of the 1937 map.
References
Idaho State Highway 78 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA