Silvertip Landing, Idaho — Place-Name From the Water Map

Silvertip Landing belongs to the watery southern end of the Lake Coeur d'Alene system, where Chatcolet and Benewah lakes blur the distinction between river corridor, wetland and shoreline.

Its name preserves an older transportation logic. Before roads reached every inhabited pocket, a landing was not merely recreational access; it was a practical connection between homes and a network of navigable water.

That history still fits the setting. Residences, wetlands, reservation land and Heyburn State Park occupy a landscape in which boats remain ordinary parts of life even though they no longer carry the burden of everyday transportation.

Silvertip Landing is a small locality, but the name works like an old map legend.

It remembers when “which road?” was not necessarily the first transportation question.