A Southern Idaho Road Trip Offers Hot Springs, Quirky Museums, and More

Eat well, drink local, and relax in southern Idaho.

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

By Gregory Scruggs From The Seattle Times

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.