The Hoodoo Mountains are a mountain range in the

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, in north central

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington (state), ...

. They are part of the

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and are the source of the

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and

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rivers. Located in northeastern Latah County and southeastern Benewah County, the high point is Bald Mountain at above

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.MSR Maps.com
- USGS - topo - accessed 2012-12-23 On the west slope of the northern

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, the Hoodoos transition into the adjoining

region, to the southwest.

North–South Ski Bowl North–South Ski Bowl was a modest ski area in the western United States, located in northern Idaho in the Hoodoo Mountains of southern Benewah County. Its bowl-shaped slope in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest faced northeast and the verti ...

, a former

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, is in the north end of the range in Benewah County. Opened in the 1930s, the area was originally owned and operated by

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(now Washington State University) in Pullman. Alpine operations were discontinued in the 1990s and it is now a "park'n'ski" area for

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off of State Highway 6.

References

External links

Mountain Zone.com
- Hoodoo Mountains - Idaho Landforms of Latah County, Idaho Mountain ranges of Idaho {{LatahCountyID-geo-stub