Idaho Parks and Recreation Areas

As the 385th unit of the National Park System, Minidoka Internment National Monument was newly authorized on January 17, 2001, and does not have any visitor facilities or services available. The National Park Service began a three-year public planning process in the fall of 2002 to develop a General Management Plan (GMP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The General Management Plan will set forth the basic management philosophy for the Monument and will provide the strategies for addressing issues and achieving identified management objectives that will guide management of the site for the next 15 - 20 years. Please click on the in-DEPTH icon at right for additional information about the GMP/EIS process and how to provide comments. read more...

Phone: 208 837-4793   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Hagerman   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument   Activities:   Details Provided By: Minidoka Internment National Monument

We encamped at the city of the rocks, a noted place from the granite rocks rising abruptly out of the ground, wrote James Wilkins in 1849. They are in a romantic valley clustered together, which gives them the appearance of a city. Wilkins was among the first wagon travelers to fix the name City of Rocks to what looked like a dismantled, rock-built city of the Stone Age. California Trail pioneers were leaving civilization as they knew it in the East for new lives in the West. read more...

Phone: 208-824-5519   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes
Nearest Popular City: Almo   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Preserve   Activities: Backpacking, Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Cross Country Skiing, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Hunting and Shooting, Rock Climbing, Wildlife Watching, Auto Touring, Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs, Snowshoeing, Star Gazing   Details Provided By: City of Rocks

For thousands of years the valleys, prairies, mountains, and plateaus of the inland northwest have been home to the Nimiipuu or Nez Perce people. Explore these places. Learn their stories. Treat them with care. The 38 sites of Nez Perce National Historical Park are scattered across the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana and have been designated to commemorate the stories and history of the Nimiipuu and their interaction with explorers, fur traders, missionaries, soldiers, settlers, gold miners, and farmers who moved through or into the area. read more...

Phone: (208) 843-2261   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes
Nearest Popular City: Spalding   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Park   Activities: Backpacking, Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Cross Country Skiing, Fishing, Hiking, Swimming, Wildlife Watching, Auto Touring, Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs, Star Gazing   Details Provided By: Nez Perce National Historic Park

Hagerman Fossil Beds NM contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world's richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago. These plants and animals represent the last glimpse of time that existed before the Ice Age, and the earliest appearances of modern flora and fauna. read more...

Phone: 208-837-4793   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Hagerman   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument   Activities: Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Boating and Watercraft, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Hunting and Shooting, Auto Touring   Details Provided By: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

A sea of lava flows with scattered islands of cinder cones and sagebrush describes this weird and scenic landscape known as Craters of the Moon. Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve contains three major lava fields covering almost half a million acres. These remarkably well preserved volcanic features resulted from geologic events that appear to have happened yesterday and will likely continue tomorrow. read more...

Phone: (208) 527-3257   Price Range: $3 - $5   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes
Nearest Popular City: Arco   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument, National Preserve   Activities: Backpacking, Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Cross Country Skiing, Hiking, Hunting and Shooting, Wildlife Watching, Auto Touring, Nature Walks, Snowshoeing   Details Provided By: Craters of the Moon