A near-intact 1860s mining boomtown at 6,200 feet in the Owyhee Mountains of southwest Idaho, with around 70 weathered original buildings and the dirt road in open roughly May to October.
Road trips · Idaho
Idaho road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Idaho — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A surreal field of billion-year-old granite spires near Almo in south-central Idaho, where climbers share trails with California Trail ruts and pioneer names written in axle grease.
Two of the last undammed major waterfalls in the West thunder past an ancient super-eruption near Ashton in eastern Idaho, with a boardwalk right up to Upper Mesa Falls' 110-foot drop.
A laid-back southeast Idaho town built around mineral pools that bubble up around 102 to 112 degrees, just 11 miles off I-15 — soak year-round and tube the Portneuf River in summer.
A cheerfully self-aware shrine to the spud in Blackfoot, with the world's largest potato crisp and a gift shop that leans all the way into the joke — a quick, fun pull-off near I-15.
North of Gooding off Highway 46, a hidden BLM canyon of volcanic-ash hoodoos, mushroom rocks, arches, and ancient petroglyphs along a quiet 4-mile loop — far less crowded than its famous namesake.
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