STATE OF IDAHO
CENTER OF POPULATION MONUMENT

The monument is located in the scenic parkside pulloff, called Park Creek Rest Area, 7 miles west of Stanley, on Highway 21. It is also just west of the Stanley Lake turnoff and where Stanley Lake Creek goes under the highway. The pulloff is owned by the U.S. Forest Service and has a scenic mountain sign and rest rooms.

The Idaho Society of Professional Land Surveyors had the granite monument made by Salmon Funeral Home, in Salmon, Idaho and it serves as a witness corner to the actual location of the 2000 census center of population, which is S. 62 degrees 22 minutes 10 seconds W. at 5.92 miles. The true location of the center of population is on a hillside south of Elk Creek, in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area.
The dedication for the monument is scheduled for late summer 2004 and is to be occupied and surveyed as a GPS "A Order" Station.

• Overview1 from scenic pulloff, including a sign identifying some of the Sawtooth Mountains. (312K)

• Granite center of population monument. (449K)

• Overview2 of monument with Sawtooths in background. (377K)
  

• Map of center of population monument location monument. (1 MB)