Collections / #63638: Virtual Tour for Salmon River Scenic Byway

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  • A lone kayaker navigates the whitewater rapids on the Salmon River.
  • The road north of Challis on the Salmon River Scenic Byway winds through a long series of agricultural valleys bordered by rounded mountains such as these. The irrigated valley floor is usually used as ranch or farmland today.
  • A worn path leads to an equally worn log cabin in the ghost town of Bonanza City in the Yankee Fork mining area of Idaho.
  • Immediately next to the highway, Sunbeam Hot Springs is a popular summer attraction.
  • Like this one, many of the graves in the Bonanza City cemetery are surrounded by picket fences.
  • Many buildings in Custer City have been restored, though the town remains a shadow of the booming mining town it once was in the heydays of Yankee Fork.


Kayaking the Salmon River

A lone kayaker navigates the whitewater rapids on the Salmon River.

Public domain. Photo by J. Crane