Farragut State Park

About Farragut State Park

Farragut State Park is located 30 miles north of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and offers a variety of recreational activities. The 4000 hectare park offers a wide range of activities for adults and children, from hiking and cycling to camping and fishing. Visitors can take part in orienteering, use the horseshoe pit, sand volleyball courts, go to the playground with the children, play disco golf, visit the Naval Training Center and the Farraggut Museum or use a model airfield.

The diverse biological community is home to many bird species, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, as well as a variety of plants and animals. Forest birds such as owls, eagles, falcons and beavers live in the forests, as do a wide variety of mammals and reptiles.

The world record in Kamloops (37 pounds) was caught at Lake Pend Oreille and a world record in Beavers (37 pounds) at Lake Oreille at the same time, both in Farragat State Park.

The park includes land that was deposited during the last ice age, as can be seen on the eastern side of the park, on the northern shore of Lake Missoula. Bernard Peak was built on a peninsula that is now in the park, and the embankment is a remnant of a large glacial dam that was the largest in North America at the time. The dam broke at various times during the Ice Age, and water rushed through, leaving behind large glaciers and gravel banks. A large glacial dam, existing in the west and east, held Lake Missoulas back, while a smaller dam in Farragat State Park holds Lake Pend Oreille and the beavers back.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was led by the United States, which invaded and divided the country, and the creation of Farragut State Park arose out of the need for a national park in the wake of that event.

The US response to the attack included protecting the Farragut naval base from an invasion on the coast. The second largest naval station in the world was built on the base, although there had never been an attack on the coast.

N - named after Admiral William Farragut, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, the station was commissioned from 1942 to 1946 and had 293,381 men from across the country who were trained there. The city, which grew out of a remote forest in northern Idaho, became home to the largest U.S. naval base and the second largest in Europe after Pearl Harbor in 1941.

After World War II, the station continued to serve as a training base for the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, but most of the 776 buildings were demolished or sold, and the US government began to offer the land for sale. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game purchased plots along the coast, and that acquisition resulted in most of the remaining land being transferred to the state of Idaho. A 20-acre site has been preserved as an acoustic research unit that is still used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the National Park Service (NPS) and other agencies.