• idaho.com: Favorite Places

Owyhee County Nestled in the whole of the Southwest corner of the state, Owyhee county provides one of the largest unihabited areas of the state which is still readily accessable to it's main population centers. Owhyee count provides a desert aridity with seasonally startling action!! The most excellent county maintained web site!! The story is mostly told in the above.

• Hot Spring Heaven - Murphy Hot Springs, NV

Nestled just on the north side of the Nevada-Idaho border, in the middle of miles and miles of rather unremarkable Bruneau Desert flats, lies a small gorge carved out of the desert by the East Fork of the Jarbridge River. The Gorge cradles a lovely little canyon with a healthy Cottonwood filled streambed and the small (very small) settlement known as Murphy Hot Springs. The hillside above the village is the source of the purest artesian water found anywhere around. This perpetually flowing water exits at a steaming 149° F and makes its way down into the river below. More ...

• Stanley, Redfish Lake and The Sawtooths

The view of Mt. Heyburn from Redfish Lake is just a classic. And what keeps this place a classic is that there still is no major development - no large resorts or hotels - just what you would expect from Idaho.

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• GoldHill Winter


With snow and the trails above the house.

• Grimes Creek Pass

Grimes Peek Pass (Between Idaho City and Placerville)

• Favorite Places in Idaho

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