Farragut State Park

Farragut State Park
Idaho State Park
Lake Pend Oreille from Farragut State Park
Named for: David Farragut

Country	United States
State	Idaho
County	Kootenai

Location	Bayview
- elevation	2,054 ft (626 m)
- coordinates	47°57′56″N 116°34′57″W / 47.96556°N 116.58250°W / 47.96556; -116.58250Coordinates: 47°57′56″N 116°34′57″W / 47.96556°N 116.58250°W / 47.96556; -116.58250

Area	4,000 acres (1,619 ha)

Founded	1964
Management	Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation

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Location of Farragut State Park in Idaho

Farragut State Park is a state park of Idaho, USA, on the southern tip of the Lake Pend Oreille in the Coeur d'Alene Mountains in Kootenai County.

The 4,000-acre (16 km²) park is located 5 miles (8 km) east of Athol in the Idaho Panhandle. It is about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Coeur d'Alene.

Activities include camping, picnicking, hiking, mountain biking, cycling, fishing, boating, swimming, water sports, orienteering, disc golf, flying model aircraft, archery and horse-back riding.

The park also features the Museum at the Brig, located in the confinement facility for the Farragut Naval Training Station. The museum's displays include boot camp, naval and war memorabilia, as well as historic prison cells.^[1]^[2]

History

The site formerly held the Farragut Naval Training Station, a major training base of the U.S. Navy during World War II. The base was named after David Farragut, the first admiral in the U.S. Navy and the leading naval officer during the Civil War.

Knowing that President Roosevelt was seeking a location for a secure inland naval training center, Eleanor Roosevelt allegedly noticed the lake on a flight to Seattle. Ground was broken in March 1942, and by September the base had a population of 55,000, making it the largest city in Idaho. Liberty trains to Spokane ran three times daily. At the time Farragut was the second-largest naval training center in the world.

Over 293,000 sailors received basic training at Farragut during its 30 months of existence. The last recruit graduated in March 1945 and the facility was decommissioned in June 1946. It was also used as a prisoner of war camp; nearly 900 Germans worked as gardeners and maintenance men.

In 1942, Lt. Commander Henry T. McMaster, supervisor of support services at the station, contracted photographer Ross Hall to produce group and portrait photos of all recruits and companies. Operator of a studio in nearby Sandpoint, Idaho, Hall employed up to 15 workers in creating a photographic archive of more than 300,000 images.

After its use and closure as the Farragut Naval Training Station, the site housed Farragut College and Technical Institute from 1946-49. It did not re-open in late 1949, because of financial difficulties.

Park site

The park adjoins the deep-water on Lake Pend Oreille, where the Navy maintains a submarine research center at Bayview, the Acoustic Research Detachment.

In 1950, 3,854 acres (1,560 ha) were transferred to the state of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and became Farragut Wildlife Management Area, but 2,566 acres (1,038 ha) were transferred back to the federal government in 1964. This land was then deeded back to the state of Idaho and the Department of Parks and Recreation, becoming Farragut State Park.^[3]

Scouting history

Farragut State Park is significant in the history of Scouting in Idaho. The park hosted the 1965 National Girl Scout Senior Roundup, the 1967 World Scout Jamboree, the 1969 National Scout Jamboree, the 1973 National Scout Jamboree, and the 2002 Star Northwest of the Boy Scouts of America.

While traveling to the moon aboard Apollo 11 in July 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong extended a greeting to the scouts attending the national jamboree in Idaho. Armstrong was an Eagle Scout from Ohio. At the Jamboree in 1973, Admiral Walter Zumwalt visited and introduced Bob Hope, who put on an outdoor show for the Scouts.

References

↑ "Museums". Idaho Museums. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
↑ "Farragut State Park". Visit Northern Idaho. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
↑ Staff (July 1999). "Farragut Wildlife Management Area: Management Plan". Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

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Protected areas of Idaho

Federal

National Parks	Yellowstone

National Historic Sites & Historical Parks	Minidoka NHS Nez Perce NHP

National Monuments	Craters of the Moon Hagerman Fossil Beds

National Forests	Bitterroot Boise Caribou-Targhee Clearwater Coeur d'Alene Idaho Panhandle Kaniksu Kootenai Nez Perce Payette Salmon-Challis Sawtooth St. Joe Wallowa–Whitman Wasatch-Cache

National Grasslands	Curlew

National Recreation Areas	Hells Canyon Sawtooth

National Wildlife Refuges	Bear Lake Camas Deer Flat Grays Lake Kootenai Minidoka Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production Area

National Conservation Areas	Snake River Birds of Prey

Wilderness Areas	Big Jacks Creek Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers Craters of the Moon Frank Church-River of No Return Gospel Hump Hells Canyon Little Jacks Creek North Fork Owyhee Owyhee River Pole Creek Selway-Bitterroot Sawtooth

State

State Parks	Bear Lake Bruneau Dunes Castle Rocks City of Rocks Coeur d'Alene Parkway Dworshak Eagle Island Farragut Harriman Hells Gate Henrys Lake Heyburn Lake Cascade Lake Walcott Land of the Yankee Fork Lucky Peak Massacre Rocks McCroskey Old Mission Ponderosa Priest Lake Round Lake Thousand Springs Three Island Crossing Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes Winchester Lake

Wildlife Management Areas	Big Cottonwood Billingsley Creek Blackfoot River Boise River Boundary Creek Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh Carey Lake Cartier Slough Cecil D. Andrus C.J. Strike Coeur d'Alene River Craig Mountain Deer Parks Farragut Fort Boise Georgetown Summit Hagerman Market Lake McArthur Lake Montour Montpelier Mud Lake Niagara Springs Payette River Pend Oreille Portneuf Red River St. Maries Sand Creek Snow Peak Sterling Tex Creek

Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation (website)