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Sagehen Reservoir and Creek are favorite destinations for a smorgasbord of travellers. Both a place of serene beauty and active fun, this near-Boise campground brings some of the best of Idaho’s treasures together in one location. As travellers head towards Sagehen down a calm, country road and up a short, meandering hill they are immersed in the full luscious trees and mountainside. The fresh scent of pine trees is ever-present, and no matter the season a vast green vista greets each visitor entering this section of the Boise National Forest. The road winds around the reservoir, near the dam and past many tent and recreational vehicle campsites. The clear water against the treeline comes into view and a sense of arriving fills the heart of each…

Are you wanting to go somewhere where you can try new things? Do you have a sense of adventure and love of the outdoors? Idaho is a place full of towns and cities that can give you that sense of excitement and wonder. For the sake of this article, we will be introducing to you some of the best places to have a vacation here in the Gem State, even though there are many others to choose from.

McCall- The resort town of McCall lies on the south side of Lake Payette. If you want to go on the water, Gravity Sports offers canoes and kayaks as well as various types of bicycles so you can pedal along the many trails near the lake. You can also enjoy some sightseeing aboard a full-service boat with McCall Lake Cruises. There are also a couple of places to…

Idaho can be a bit of a silly place. There are a lot of strange things that go on within its borders and while they are not always nice things for the people who are forced to go through them, they can still be fun to learn about. A lot of history has gone down in Idaho and some of the stories that have come out on the other side of that history are surprising and can be difficult to believe. Every state has these kinds of stories and they are important to that state’s identity, but we are not talking about just any state, but the great Gem State of Idaho. Even if you have lived in Idaho your entire life, some of the funny things I have to tell you might not have crossed your desk or maybe they just did not occur to you to be as strange or silly as…

Camping is a relatively easy thing to do. All you need is a place outside to sleep that is not your home and to stick with it and try to go the whole night without giving up. Camping comfortable on the other hand can be a little bit more of a challenge. Before I personally really knew what needed to be done to actually enjoy my experiences camping, there were many nights where I was miserable and unable to sleep, either because I was too lazy or just did not know what I needed to do to have a nice night under a clear or cloudy sky. I eventually figured things out, but it would have been better without the trial and error. I want to help you get through what I had to go through without so much trouble and difficulty, and I want to help you in…

The backyard of your home is not always what you want it to be. Sometimes the yard is too small, and you do not have the space to make the changes that you want to make. Sometimes it is just so big and expansive that you have no idea what to do with it, your mind literally unable to wrap around the projects ahead of you. A bad backyard can be an annoyance to have such a task on your project list all the time and it is always important to live in a setting that you like and can enjoy. So, I want to give you some tips on how to mend this situation and transform your backyard into something that you can be proud of. You might find yourself having no trouble at all changing your backyard into something wonderful or it might be a monumental task. Either…

It is a calm day. The sky is a clear blue and there are only a few wispy clouds to get in the way of a warm and delightful sun. The air is clear enough to see for a hundred miles in every direction and the sounds of roads and civilization are far enough away that they cannot touch your ear. You swing your oar down into the water and pull it back, dragging your boat across the surface of a lake with a smooth and practiced motion. The water eddies around your paddle and you glide forward, slipping soundlessly beneath a low hanging branch of a tree. A bird twitters and you see a fish jump out of the water thirty feet away, shimmering in the sun. You put your paddle in the water again and pull… Was that a nice image? Personally, I find the act of rowing…