June is Great Outdoors Month, highlighting the benefits of the active, fun outdoors and our magnificent shared resources of forests, parks, refuges and other public lands and waters. Idaho State Parks bring everything together, offering easy, affordable access to recreation and lodging so families can get out and explore the great outdoors. Here are just of [...]
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Wildflowers at Craters of the Moon: There’s an app for that!
Like having a Ranger in your pocket, this new wildflower app provides the ability to identify 100 of the most common plants at Craters of the Moon National Monument. Download your free copy for both Apple and Android devices by visiting http://www.nps.gov/crmo/photosmultimedia/index.htm Recent rains should make this another good year for the annual eruption of wildflowers [...]
Idaho Tourism Launches Marketing Campaign Where Visitors are the Stars
The Idaho Department of Commerce Division of Tourism has launched its 2013 spring/summer marketing campaign, My ID, continuing the successful campaign launched last year. It is designed to showcase the state’s scenic beauty and abundant outdoor recreational opportunities in an entertaining, interactive way on www.visitidaho.org/My-ID. The Adventurers – Everyone can be a super hero [...]
Idaho’s “Rec Tech” Innovators
This post by Greg Hahn with Idaho Public Television, gives a behind the scenes look at the Outdoor Idaho episode focusing on Idaho’s growing recreational technology (rec tech) industry and the adventurous men and women behind some of Idaho’s rec tech innovations. Reposted with permission. If you love the outdoors, you’re probably a little bit of [...]
Boise woman conquers all 9 of Idaho’s 12,000-foot peaks in 1 year; who’s going to do it next?
Originally posted by Steve Stuebner, Sept. 13, 2012 I like to climb mountains, and I know a lot of you do, too. But I’m not a technical rock-climber. I had a really close call on the side of Mount Washington in Montana while I was in college that almost got me killed, so I’m much more comfortable [...]
18,000 Miles of Super-cool Mountain Trails
Idaho is blessed with 18,000 miles of super-cool mountain trails located on 20 million acres of national forest lands, 12 million acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and more than 1 million acres of state land. So if you’re planning a vacation to Idaho, and you’d like to try out some [...]
Stars, Close Enough to Touch
Did you know that during the month of August, stars are closer to the earth than during any other time of the year? Star parties are popular in the summer months. Members of the Boise Astronomical Society host star parties in August. The Idaho Falls Astronomical Society also holds star parties throughout the summer. There is one in Lava Hot Springs [...]
“One Minute Idaho” Submissions
When Ira Glass, host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life, visited Boise in 2011, Boise State Public Radio, along with the Idaho Department of Tourism and The Story Initiative at Boise State University, presented “One Minute Idaho.” This was a writing contest open to anyone with an Idaho story to [...]
Explore the Lochsa Country in North-Central Idaho; it’s plum full of cool things to do
Written by guest blogger Steve Stuebner A quick drive to Missoula, Mont., last weekend reminded me how much I miss the Lochsa River Country in north-central Idaho. To be totally honest, I feel a huge tug in my heart when I go there — a feeling that comes from many wonderful trips in which I [...]
Redfish Lake Lodge
Written by guest blogger Emily Engelhardt. A place in Idaho, a place in the Sawtooth Mountains, a place in my heart, Redfish Lake Lodge. As I sit here and write this I am reminded of what summer at Redfish Lake is. Its sandy beaches, crystal clear water, families, boating, ice cream, live music on the [...]