Category: Half-Day Trip
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Owyhee Range High Points
Treasure Valley residents might be surprised to learn that at 8,403 feet, Hayden Peak, the high point of the Owyhee Range, sits almost 900 feet higher than Shafer Butte, the prominent Boise mountain home to Bogus Basin Ski Area. In fact, the four highest points forming the backbone of the Owyhees are all above 8,000…
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Three Fingers Rock
Three Fingers Rock sits just a few miles over the state border in Oregon, one of the most prominent features of the northern Owyhee Range, whose geology forms the western boundary of the Treasure Valley. Named for it’s three distinct skyward-jutting “knuckles”, the rock is a relatively easy hike and scramble that rewards explorers with…
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Big Bend of Sheep Creek Canyon
If you drive an AWD/4WD vehicle with ground clearance and enjoy desolation and the borderline feeling of vertigo when standing on the edge of a gorge and looking down, you’ll love the Big Bend of Sheep Creek. This waterway flows north through a deep canyon from Nevada down the Owyhee Plateau before turning east at…
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North Fork of the Boise River
2025 Update: A rockslide has dammed the river about 1.75 miles from the trailhead. The rest of this trail is inaccessible without swimming through the pool created by the dam. The Forest Service has been notified, but it’s unclear if they will attempt to blast out the dam with explosives, or leave the new trail…
Exploring Boise's Wilderness 