Kooskia Internment Camp

The Kooskia Internment Camp is a former internment camp in north central Idaho, located about 30 mi northeast of Kooskia (pronounced ) in northern Idaho County. It operated during the final two years of World War II.

Originally a remote highway work camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, it was later run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and then converted in 1943 to house interned Japanese men, most of whom were longtime U.S. residents, but not citizens, branded "enemy aliens." So remote was the camp in the western Bitterroot Mountains, fences and guard towers were unnecessary. It was run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice.

A current archaeological project of the University of Idaho, the site is 6 mi northeast of Lowell on U.S. 12, on the north bank of the Lochsa River  at an approximate elevation of 1600 ft above sea level. The two-lane highway was completed in 1962, connecting to Montana at Lolo Pass at 5233 ft and eastward to Missoula.