Why vacation or take a holiday in Idaho?
Shoshone Falls. Twin Falls, ID - courtesy chadh - CC-BY
Idaho is known as the “Gem State.” Tourists can fine many things to do and see all year.
There is skiing in Sun Valley, fishing, beaches at Coeurd’Alene and caves at Craters of the Moon. Plenty of white-water rafting too. There are endless mountain ranges, alpine lakes, canyons, pine forests, and historic ghost towns.
Boise is capital and the state’s largest city. It offers the amenities of a large city but is never far from nature. This is demonstrated by all the open spaces found in Boise. The Greenbelt is a motorless park running for 25 miles along the Boise River and the Grove is a large park near downtown. There are several thousand acres of park in the city. A good symphony orchestra, an opera company, ballet, and several theater companies represent the performing arts in Boise.
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area contains the deepest river gorge in North America. There are no bridges across Hells Canyon’s 10-mile wide chasm.
The scenery has been an attraction at Hells Canyon for thousands of years. Rustic homesteads with abandoned fields, old mining sites, and Indian pictographs and petroglyphs are scattered throughout the canyon.
The mountain regions of Idaho offer winter sports with groomed trails for snowmobiling, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.
The unspoiled wilderness of Idaho will take your breath away as you escape into its amazing and rugged beauty.
This only skims the surface of things to do and see in Idaho.
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I camped with my family a few years ago in the Craters of the Moon National Monument. Although it’s not a “pretty” place in the traditional sense of the word, it’s one of those places that’s different enough to make for an interesting experience and to serve as a reminder of how much natural variety there is on our planet. But I would advise against camping there during the hottest part of the summer — since the place is basically a huge and fairly recently formed (in geological time) lava field, there’s basically no shade. The monument is well worth a stop if you’re on your way to Yellowstone National Park coming from the west.