If you live in Idaho, there’s a 99% chance that you have a favorite lake that you love being at in the summer. The one place where you can wait to get away to when temperatures soar into the triple digits.
There’s no shortage of choices. The Idaho Department of Water Resources reveals that there are more than 2,000 lakes in the state. The question is which of these lakes is the “prettiest” and who has the authority to judge one lake from another?
Reader’s Digest Names the “Prettiest Lake in Every State”
Apparently, the staff at Reader’s Digest does. When we saw that they created a list of the prettiest lakes in every state we had a gut feeling that it would be the lake that Idaho shares with Utah – Bear Lake.
For years, the lake has been called the “Caribbean of the Rockies” because of its unique turquoise blue water. The unique color is the result of microscopic particles of white-colored limestone reflecting the water’s natural blue hue back to the surface.
To our surprise, Reader’s Digest did NOT pick Bear Lake for Idaho OR Utah. The named Lake Powell, which Utah shares with Arizona, as the Beehive State’s prettiest lake. As for Idaho? The prettiest lake in the state can be found in North Idaho.
Lake Coeur d’Alene Name Prettiest Lake in Idaho
In choosing Lake Coeur d’Alene Reader’s Digest said:…