Sun Valley, Idaho
Sun Valley is a resort city in the western United States. It is within Blaine County in central Idaho. The resort is adjacent to the city of Ketchum and within the greater Wood River valley. The population was 1,406 at the 2010 census, down from 1,427 in 2000. The elevation of Sun Valley is 5,920 feet above sea level. The area is served by Friedman Memorial Airport in Hailey, approximately 15 miles south. Visitors to Sun Valley are relatively close to the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, accessed over Galena Summit on Highway 75, the Sawtooth Scenic Byway.
Tourists enjoy its skiing, ice skating, golfing, hiking, trail riding, cycling, and tennis. Few of its residents stay year-round, and most come from major cities like Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and more distantly Chicago and New York City.
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Our Great Idaho Adventure - Boise, Twin Falls, Sun Valley and more - GoPro
Our Idaho trip. April 2015. Boise, Twin Falls, Shoshone Falls, Craters of the Moon, Sun Valley, Ketchum, Cascade Lake, McCall, Bogus Basin, Oregon Trail
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Visiting Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, National Recreation Area in Idaho, United States
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Must visit places in Arkansas USA
Must visit places for your trip to Arkansas in United states of America.
1. Devil’s Den State Park
11333 AR-74, West Fork, AR 72774, USA
Devil’s Den State Park is in the Ozark Mountains in northwest Arkansas. Trails branch out from the visitor center, including the extensive Butterfield Trail and the Gorley King horse trail. Cabins are spread across the valley. Canoes and paddleboats dot the waters of Lake Devil. Panoramic views from Yellow Rock Overlook take in the Lee Creek Valley. The park is home to wildlife like beavers, bats and armadillos.
2. The Hot Springs National Park
376 central avenue, Hot Springs Township, AR 71902, USA
Hot Springs National Park is a United States National Park in central Garland County, Arkansas, adjacent to the city of Hot Springs, the county seat
3.Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way, Bentonville, AR 72712, USA
4.Lake Ouachita
Lake Ouachita is a reservoir created by the damming of the Ouachita River by Blakely Mountain Dam. Blakely Mountain Dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1948 to 1953
5. Buffalo National River
The Buffalo River, located in northern Arkansas, was the first National River to be designated in the United States. The Buffalo River is 153 miles (246 km) long. The lower 135 miles (217 km) flow within the boundaries of an area managed by the National Park Service, where the stream is designated the Buffalo National River
Idaho hopes to boost tourism with prizewinning night skies
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One Idaho city is hoping that its stunning night skies will put it on the map as a tourist hotspot - if it can win the approval of an elite conservation organization, that is. After years of efforts to reduce excess light pollution, on Oct. 31, the International Dark-Sky Association (IDSA) named Ketchum, Idaho an International Dark Sky Community, the Associated Press reports. Ketchum is only the 16th city worldwide to be awarded the designation. In a larger sense, Idaho is “becoming one of the centers of interest in dark skies in the country,” said John Barentine, IDSA program manager. With a population of roughly 2,700, Ketchum joins other, more populous Gem State cities that are currently seeking the rare dark-sky titles, hoping to both attract stargazing tourists and boost real estate values. Earlier this year, Idaho’s Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve became an official International Dark Sky Park earlier this year, one of just 40 in the nation. Nevertheless, the m...
RV LIFE - Trip to Boise (PART1)
We head to Boise, Idaho for a week of business and fun with friends. In this video (part 1 of 2), join us for a quick tour of the Boise/Meridian KOA.
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RVing in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
RVing in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area is probably the best it gets for campers and RVers in terms of raw beauty, peace and quiet, and cool temperatures in the Spring and Summer. There are many forest roads that branch off of Highway 75, but one in particular, Forest Road 146, offers a mix of free boondocking, gorgeous scenery, and still some usable Verizon 4G signal. There is also a dump station here with clean, potable water, and a visitor center for maps and pamphlets.
In this video, we left our campsite after boondocking here for 15 days, hitched up our trailer, and towed it 3 miles to the dump station, just to illustrate what it's like to pull your trailer up this road. It's a bumpy, rocky road, but still doable for most RVers with moderate experience.
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Redfish Outlet Campground, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Stanley, Idaho Campsite Photos
6500-foot elevation. 19 campsites on the eastern shore of Redfish Lake. Adjacent picnic/day use area. Great angling for trout in the lake. Take a short tour on the interpretive Fishhook Nature Trail, or a longer walk west into the Sawtooth Wilderness to battle wild cutthroat in the alpine lakes. Visitor Center offers area information and interpretive programs. Boat ramp at nearby Sandy Beach Boat Launch. Swimming, sailing, waterskiing, wading, canoeing, motor boating and of course, fishing are all great ways to enjoy the waters. A section of the Idaho Centennial Trail passes near here. Stables, rental boats, and a dump station are available for equestrians at Redfish Lake Lodge.
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Major Idaho roadways expected to see snow, high winds and winter conditions for holiday commute
With parts of Oregon and Washington already getting hit, the major winter storm is expected to bring snowfall and major wind gusts to Idaho starting Tuesday night.
Idaho Museum of Natural History: Gone Fishin'!
Idaho Museum of Natural History opens a new exhibit. It is designed with the goal to submerge visitors into the habitat of both fish and fisherman. It spotlights all 38 varieties of Idaho's native fish using life size paper relief sculptures by artist, Lonnie Hutson.
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USA Road Trip: Wyoming & Montana
It's cowboy country, and where landscapes are filled with herds of wild bison, elk, elusive moose, and iconic grizzly bears. It's home to some of the best ski fields in the USA, and attracts adrenaline junkies year round. It's home to Yellowstone, America's first national park; the Grand Tetons - an iconic mountain range if ever there was one; and Glacier National Park, where the steep peaks have been calved by glaciers over millions of years. It's where the locals are inherently friendly, hospitality is grassroots, and adventure in the great outdoors is the name of the game. This, is the Great American West.
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2009 March 1 Having fun with Fred & Sandy at Mount St Helen's Visitor Center
We drove up from Eugene, OR and Fred & Sandy drove down from Bremerton, WA and we met at Castle Rock, Washington. In spite of the rain we had a blast! Thank goodness color was finally invented!!
CROY CREEK TRAILS - MOUNTAIN BIKER HAVEN
Since the mid-1970's, people in south-central Idaho have enjoyed biking in some of the most stunning natural landscapes - on mountain and foothill trails and valley trails crossing public and private lands.
With the help of mountain bike enthusiasts, county, state and federal agencies have created more than 20 miles of mountain bike trails on Bureau of Land Management land in the Croy Creek area west of Hailey, Idaho.
During the summer of 2010, the latest section of mountain bike trail took shape in Wilson Gulch. It is just a little over a mile in length and it is designed and built specifically for mountain bikers. The trail has a lot of different features in it. We've got a lot of different types of jumps, table tops and rollers to really enhance the mountain biking experience.
This new segment of trail features six single rollers, twelve double rollers and eight table tops. This is a table top jump. We have several of these scattered throughout the trail system. The idea is to jump it from one end to the other, but you can also roll through it and never let your tires leave the ground.
The contract to construct the trail was funded with an allocation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and was awarded to extreme excavation of Shoshone, Idaho. The project represented immediate stimulus to the local economy - and in the longer term, a draw for visitors and future residents.
There is absolutely not any extra dollars available for things other than the requirements that the state government gives us that we have to do. So, if it wasn't for this program, and if it wasn't for the cooperation between Blaine County and B L M, there would be no way that the County could do this on their own.
The thing that really drove this was the demand of the users. Several years ago we had gotten letters of requests of that from state representatives, county commissioners and by me attending local trail organization meetings for several years we realized that there was a demand for spring trail opportunities closer to the City of Hailey. Right now there is an absolutely world class trail system up in Ketchum on Forest Service land, but there was nothing down here where the good majority of the population lives. That really drove the need to have a designated trail system down here in the southern part of the valley.
Located near the growing town of Hailey, the Croy Creek Trail System allows local residents to enjoy exceptional public land opportunities virtually right out their back doors! There's a lot of people that actually ride from town, it's only a three mile ride out here to the trailhead. Then from there you can easily ride for a good two and a half or three hours if you like or you can come out on the lunch hour and get a quick forty-five minute ride in. So it really provides a nice spectrum of experiences for people.
Mixing the cooperation among trail users and local and federal government agencies...with unique public land opportunities...and economic recovery funding will attract visitors and future residents while building and maintaining community in the Wood River Valley.
We have found that the cooperation that we have had between B L M and Blaine County, as well as the Forest Service, allows us to implement visions that we would not have otherwise.
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The Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is famous for its “lunar craters” that formed after a volcano eruption more than 200 years ago. . United States : Idaho. (月球撞击坑国家纪念地和保护区). See on map .
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Buffalo Meadows RV Park at Fort Hall Casino offers paved full hookup pull thru RV campsites. Next to the casino this park is convenient to Interstate 15. A mix of short and long term guests the RV park is located “out back” and offers a quiet respite for an evening or two. The casino draws in some big acts for concerts so the venue serves as a great place to bring the RV and enjoy a good concert or show.
The RV area includes a large central grass pavilion area for recreation and play. The bathhouse is also in the center area with showers and restrooms. Sites are a bit tight.
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Wildfires threaten Yosemite, Yellowstone
Desair Brown hosts USA NOW for August 21, 2013, covering the massive wildfires scorching the West.
FRESNO, Calif. -- An out-of-control forest fire threatening about 2,500 structures near Yosemite National Park was one of more than 50 active, large wildfires dotting the western U.S. on Wednesday.
The remote blaze in Stanislaus National Forest west of Yosemite grew to more than 25 square miles and was only 5 percent contained, threatening homes, hotels and camp buildings.
The fire has led to the voluntary evacuation of the private gated summer community of Pine Mountain Lake, which has a population of 2,800, as well as several organized camps, at least two campgrounds and dozens of other private homes. Two residences and seven outbuildings have been destroyed.
The fire also caused the closure of a 4-mile stretch of State Route 120, one of the gateways into Yosemite on the west side. Park officials said the park remains open to visitors and can be accessed via state Routes 140 and 4.
This is typically a very busy time for us until Labor Day, so it's definitely affecting business not having the traffic come through to Yosemite, said Britney Sorsdahl, a manager at the Iron Door Saloon and Grill in Groveland, a community of about 600 about five miles from the fire.
The board of supervisors in Tuolumne County held an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon and voted for a resolution to ask Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency and free special funds and resources for the firefight.
The resolution said the fire was directly threatening various communities and businesses and beyond our capabilities, according to the Modesto Bee.
The fire was among the nation's top firefighting priorities, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
Fifty-one major uncontained wildfires are burning throughout the West, according to the center, including in California, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. More than 19,000 firefighters were fighting the fires.
But the U.S. Forest Service, the nation's top wildfire-fighting agency, said Wednesday that it is running out of money to fight wildfires and is diverting $600 million from timber, recreation and other areas to fill the gap. The agency said it had spent $967 million so far this year and was down to $50 million -- typically enough to pay for just a few days of fighting fires when the nation is at its top wildfire preparedness level, which went into effect Tuesday.
There have been more than 32,000 fires this year that have burned more than 5,300 square miles.
On Wednesday, the National Interagency Fire Center listed two fires in Montana as the nation's number one priority. They include a wildfire burning west of Missoula that has surpassed 13 square miles, destroyed five homes, closed U.S. Highway 12 and led to multiple evacuations. The Lolo Fire Complex, which was zero percent contained, also destroyed an unknown number of outbuildings and vehicles.
At least 19 other notable fires were burning across the state, leading Montana Gov. Steve Bullock to declare a state of emergency, which allows the use of National Guard resources ranging from personnel to helicopters.
In Oregon, a fire in the Columbia Gorge about 10 miles southwest of The Dalles grew to 13 square miles, forcing evacuations and burning a third home. The fire was 15 percent contained. Strong winds continued to fan the blaze, pushing it into the Mount Hood National Forest.
Firefighters in southwestern Oregon braced for a return of lightning storms that started a series of fires last month that continue to burn in rugged timberlands.
In Idaho, progress was reported in the fight against the nearly 169-square-mile Beaver Creek fire, which forced the evacuation of 1,250 homes in the resort area of Ketchum and Sun Valley. That fire was 47 percent contained, authorities said.
In Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, officials reopened a 7-mile section of road closed briefly by a wildfire. As of Wednesday, the Alum Fire had burned about 12 square miles and was spreading slowly, leading park officials to make preliminary evacuation plans for a community on the shore of Yellowstone Lake.
Sawtooth National Forest | Wikipedia audio article
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Sawtooth National Forest
00:02:24 1 Forest history
00:10:21 2 Management
00:13:13 2.1 Wilderness
00:17:33 3 Natural resources
00:17:42 3.1 Flora
00:21:26 3.2 Fauna
00:26:45 3.3 Fire ecology
00:30:24 4 Geography and geology
00:33:00 4.1 Waterways
00:35:27 4.2 Seismology
00:36:03 4.3 Glaciology
00:37:04 5 Climate
00:38:01 6 Human history
00:41:32 7 Recreation
00:44:33 7.1 Winter activities
00:45:40 7.2 Scenic roads
00:46:43 8 Popular culture
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Sawtooth National Forest is a National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it was originally named the Sawtooth Forest Reserve in a proclamation issued by President Theodore Roosevelt on May 29, 1905. On August 22, 1972 a portion of the forest was designated as the Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA), which includes the Sawtooth, Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds, and Hemingway–Boulders wilderness areas. The forest is managed as four units: the SNRA and the Fairfield, Ketchum, and Minidoka Ranger Districts.
Sawtooth National Forest is named for the Sawtooth Mountains, which traverse part of the SNRA. The forest also contains the Albion, Black Pine, Boise, Boulder, Pioneer, Raft River, Smoky, Soldier, Sublett, and White Cloud mountain ranges, as well as Hyndman Peak, the ninth-highest point in Idaho at 12,009 feet (3,660 m) above sea level. Sawtooth National Forest contains land cover types which include sagebrush steppe, spruce-fir forests, alpine tundra, and over 1,100 lakes and 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of rivers and streams. Plants and animals found only in the Sawtooth National Forest and adjacent lands include Christ's Indian paintbrush, Davis' springparsley, the South Hills crossbill, and the Wood River sculpin.
The area that is now Sawtooth National Forest was first occupied by people as early as 8000 BC and by the Shoshone tribe after 1700 AD. The first European descendants migrating from the eastern United States arrived in the area around the 1820s; they were mainly explorers, trappers, and prospectors, and they founded many of the current towns around what later became the forest. Sawtooth National Forest offers facilities for recreation, with four ski areas, whitewater and flatwater boating, hunting, 81 campgrounds, and over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) of trails and roads for hiking, mountain biking, and all-terrain vehicle use, including two National Recreation Trails.
Topnotch Resort in Stowe, Vermont: A Family Travel Review
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Lewis & Clark Caverns, Montana
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