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New toilets coming for Forest Service properties in North Idaho

The Forest Service is planning to replace the vault toilets at three sites in North Idaho this week. (Courtesy of the Forest Service)
From staff reports

From staff reports

Three trailhead parking lots in North Idaho are closed this week as the U.S. Forest Service brings in some new vault toilets.

On Tuesday, the Idaho Panhandle National Forest closed the parking lots for the English Point Recreation Trails on Hayden Lake, the Fourth of July Pass Nordic Trailhead and the Mullan Tree Trailhead.

The closures were set to last through Saturday but have been extended through July 31, a Forest Service spokesperson said Thursday. 

Contractors will pump waste out of the toilets, demolish them and then install new ones.

Heavy equipment will be used to do the work, which prompted the closure, according to the agency.

The new toilets are being paid for through funding from the Great American Outdoors Act.