This is a sponsored post. A family’s first backpacking trip is an Idaho rite of passage. Perhaps no other kind of trip can test your bushcraft, parenting skills and a child’s patience, all within a 24-hour window.
Tara Morgan worked in partnership with Visit Idaho to create this Travel Tip. In the midst of September harvest season—when Idaho farmers markets are overflowing with ripe heirloom tomatoes, swollen peppers and perfectly sweet, drip-down-your-arm peaches—it’s difficult for restaurants not to source locally.
This is a sponsored post. One of Idaho's greatest features has to be its awe-inspiring night sky. The twinkling stars and the Milky Way will take your breath away and Idaho's lack of light pollution means you're in a great spot to capture a gorgeous starry night.
This is a sponsored post. With such wide diversity in landscapes and outdoor recreation opportunities, Idaho is one of the most underrated states in the West. From the high desert plains to jagged mountain peaks to pristine rivers and streams, no matter what part of the state you find yourself in, we guarantee there’s someplace beautiful to explore nearby.
This is sponsored post. Looking at our little adventure sedan, you’d think we were running a small sporting goods store. We had running shoes, bike gear, and wading boots precariously balanced like adventure Jenga on the back seat and two hardtail mountain bikes on the rear rack.
This is a sponsored post. Finding a family hike suited for everyone can be a bit of a challenge, especially when you have young children. If this scenario sounds familiar consider exploring the Cress Creek Nature Trail in eastern Idaho to keep the whole family happy.
As the fall moves in, bringing with it cooler temperatures and gorgeous color-changing foliage, it may be time to try on a new adventure, one fit for the whole family. All you have to do is hop on a bike and enjoy the 15 mile, downhill ride on the Route of the Hiawatha Trail.
This is a sponsored post. I’m lying on my inflatable camp mattress, afloat in a pool of warmth waiting for the stars to illuminate the evening sky. Thirty miles north of McCall, Idaho, the light pollution is all but gone.
This author is a paid content writer for Idaho Tourism. Blue Lake, one of Idaho’s better kept secrets, can be found just outside of Cascade in the Boise National Forest near the summit of Snowbank Mountain and Granite Peak.
This is a sponsored post. This summer Tamarack Resort reopened its downhill bike park, which was once a highly-regarded downhill destination, and started offering lift services to mountain bikers for the first time since 2007.
A trip to the Land of the Yankee Fork, the historic mining region nestled between Stanley and Challis, is unforgettable. Hop in the car for a day-long journey to explore stage stops along an old toll road, mining ghost towns and a 988-ton dredge.
This author is a paid content writer for Idaho Tourism. If you’re looking to explore some unfamiliar territory, all you have to do is take a short drive east of Seattle to Idaho, and you’ll be in the heart of some of the Northwest’s most beautiful destinations.
This is a sponsored post. Idaho’s Silver Valley is as rich with outdoor adventure as it was once was with silver… if you are willing to dig a little. The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes and the Route of the Hiawatha are the cycling jewels of the area, but a little extra research turned up the somewhat mysterious and more rugged route known as the “Bitterroot 300.” Pedaling along the Coeur d'Alene River.
A bounty of incredible hikes await visitors to Redfish Lake. The surrounding Sawtooth Mountains are filled with remote alpine lakes, jagged peaks, wildflowers, and wildlife. Whether you’re an experienced hiker or a family searching for adventure, look no further than these three hikes.
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.” –Ernest Hemingway Embracing the Idaho spirit. What attracted Hemingway and so many others to the splendor of Idaho is the wide open space, the mountain vistas and the community. The feeling of small town and big life is what drew me in as well. I launched Rebecca’s Private Idaho to share what Hemingway and I already know about bicycles and about Idaho. As a professional racer, I ride in some of the most sublime places on the planet.
Idaho is ranked #1 in the U.S., and often in the entire world, for whitewater adventures by outdoor magazines. River sports can be taken to the extreme here in the Gem State and if you think you’ve experienced all that whitewater has to offer in the lower 48, think again, and pack your bags for Idaho.
This is a sponsored post. Beyond Idaho's gorgeous mountains, sparkling rivers, and pristine lakes lie another hidden gem, waterfalls! There are dozens of amazing waterfalls just waiting to be explored all over the state.
This author is a paid content writer for Idaho Tourism. The end of summer is quickly approaching, which means a new school year is just around the corner. It seems every year that summer vacation gets shorter and shorter, and we struggle to find the time to check everything off the list that we wanted to do.
Just because summer is in full swing doesn’t mean the learning has to stop. While kids may love to just relax all summer long, as parents, it’s great to still see your kids learning new things even during their break from school.
This author is a paid content writer for Idaho Tourism. Those who have journeyed to Idaho know how much we enjoy our outdoors, this fact especially rings true in the Gem State’s capital. Boise is praised for its vibrant culture, lively crowd, and active community on a regular basis, in fact, Forbes named the City of Trees No.
This is a sponsored post. Nestled along the Salmon River in North Fork, Idaho is where we find the Wagonhammer Campground. This luxury RV campground is an ideal spot for those who are seeking exciting Idaho outdoor adventures or for those who just want to get away from it all in a relaxing location. This beautiful campground is located on the banks of the Salmon River, adjacent to Highway 93 and in the heart of the Central Idaho Rocky Mountains.
At first glance, Idaho may not seem like a major vacation destination. Or at least that that's what I thought. After a few short days in The Gem State, I had my perception flipped upside down. What I once thought was a barren state of high desert turned out to be an oasis of outdoor sports!
This is a sponsored post. The sweltering summer heat was in full effect causing me to run for the hills to find a little reprieve in the mountains. I set my sights for McCall, but being the height of summer, the busy tourist atmosphere of the town did not appeal to my thirst for nature.
"960 miles through some of Idaho's most remote, wild, and scenic country," is a simple way to describe the Idaho Centennial Trail. Since its creation in 1990, only a handful of people have completed a through-hike of the entire trail and many of them took months to do so. That's where Andrija Barker and Taylor Neal come in, crazy (some might say) and ambitious.
Pokémon Go is taking the globe by storm, and even that seems like an understatement. Everywhere you look, people have phones in hand on the hunt for Pokémon. For some Pokémon trainers, this quest to "Catch 'em all" has inadvertently sent players on another kind of journey, one that allows them to explore their city as they've likely never explored it before.