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Daredevil Evel Knievel tried and failed to jump the Snake River Canyon in 1974 (stuntman Eddie Braun pulled it off in 2016). There's a monument to Knievel's legendary attempt at the foot of the Perrine Memorial Bridge, which crosses the canyon just outside of Twin Falls. Today the bridge is a popular site for BASE jumpers to launch into the abyss 486 feet above the Snake River. Gregory Scruggs/The Seattle Times/TNS
If you’re visiting Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in its centennial year—as I was recently—or making a road trip that extends as far as Wyoming or Utah, it’s easy to consider breezing through southern Idaho en route to your destination.
