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Priest Lake Priest Lake, near Priest River, Idaho.

Priest River

Idaho, United States
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Priest River, city, Bonner county, northwestern Idaho, U.S., at the junction of the Priest and Pend Oreille rivers. It is a gateway to a spectacular aquatic and forested mountain domain focusing on Priest Lake and Upper Priest Lake (north) and the Kaniksu and Coeur dā€™Alene national forests in the Idaho panhandle. Originally the territory of Kalispel Indians, the area was explored in the 1840s by a Jesuit priest, Pierre-Jean de Smet, and both the river...

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