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Seven Wonders of Idaho

A Joint Project

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The Idaho Statesman is offering a specially designed, art quality poster of each day’s Seven Wonders of Idaho. The posters, suitable for framing, are $9.95 each or $49.95 for the set of seven. To order, call 377-NEWS or click the link below.

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The Snake River

Lochsa and Clearwater Rivers

Sawtooths

Idaho's Great Lakes

Owyhee Canyonlands

Craters of the Moon

Frank Church River Of No Return Wilderness • The Salmon River

Picking 7 Wonders of Idaho was no easy task

The hardest thing about choosing the Seven Wonders of Idaho is that there are so many more than seven. In a state blanketed with mountains, canyons, lakes, rivers and even desert marvels, wonders abound. When the Statesman decided to pick the Seven Wonders of Idaho, Statesman readers showed just how hard the task would be. | GO...

The Snake River

The meandering Snake shapes Idaho's past, future

Without the Snake River, the Idaho we know simply wouldn’t exist. Idaho’s history, economy and culture flow through its waters. Before either the state or the river had its name, the Snake brought food to the Shoshone and Nez Perce. Before the world tasted the Idaho potato, the Snake had to be corralled and marshaled to the desert. Before low-cost energy could attract business to Boise, the Snake had to be harnessed and yoked to produce power. And before Idaho could emerge as an outdoor paradise, the Snake had to carve its canyons, sculpt its falls and forge its rapids. | GO...

Lochsa & Clearwater Rivers

'You can get to nowhere from here'

Idaho is rich with in-between places — eye-blink towns like Harpster, Stites, Kamiah and Kooskia where patchworks of weathered buildings blend into the dusty browns and deep greens of hills rising from wild rivers. Most people are just passing through, but the ones who order the "usual" at Kooskia's China Cafe and know every rock of the steelhead stretch in Orofino have a different understanding of life in Idaho's most breathtaking gas stops. | GO...

The Sawtooths

Central Idaho's stairway to heaven

When Idahoans want to play, they often head to the Sawtooth Range, home to more than 50 10,000-foot peaks and hundreds of clear alpine lakes. There, a 756,000-acre playground called the Sawtooth National Recreation Area offers boundless opportunities for experiencing the Great Outdoors. | GO...

Idaho's Great Lakes

North Idaho's waters of enchantment

The Great Lakes of North Idaho are as different from most of southern Idaho as ferns are from sagebrush. Southern Idaho is deserts, rugged canyons, glittering peaks. North Idaho is lush forests, gentle hills, brooding lakes. | GO...

The Owyhee Canyonlands

Owyhee Canyonlands: The wildest part of Idaho

If Idaho is the wilderness state, then the Owyhee Canyonlands is the wildest part of Idaho. You won't find maintained trails and campgrounds here. There's no permit system. And don't wait for a ranger. There are roads. But the deep-rutted, bony former game trails are only for people with large four-wheel drive trucks or SUVs and a willingness to spend a few nights stuck here after a rainstorm. | GO...

Craters of the Moon

Flowing lava shapes unearthly land

This is a land that lava made. Beginning 15,000 years ago, molten rock lying deep inside the Earth pushed through a 52-mile-long crack on the planet’s surface in eastern Idaho. Blobs of thick lava oozed from the rip now known as the Great Rift, transforming the landscape into a volcanic graveyard eventually called Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. | GO...

Frank Church River Of No Return Wilderness • The Salmon River

Heart of Idaho beats in the Salmon River wilds

The Salmon River and "the Frank," as the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness is affectionately called, epitomize everything that Idahoans love to boast about: our water, our mountains, our wildlife, our people. | GO...


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