Twin Falls, Craters of the Moon National Monument, The Idaho Potato Museum, and Other Exciting Southern Idaho Attractions. Part I - Twin Falls

Fast forwarding past about a month’s worth of amazing sights to this past week’s highlights.

So, a current post for once. Otherwise, if I keep playing catch up with this blog, we will be back home and then away again on our next trip before I catch up.

Southern Idaho is basically lava, lava, water, potatoes, and more lava.

Volcanos and oozing lava have been covering Idaho with lava rock (basalt, rhyolite, etc) to a great depth for a very long time.

Twin Falls, Idaho
The main attraction here is the scenic Snake River Gorge/Canyon with its assorted waterfalls. The gorge is a relatively recent landscape feature, only about 10,000 to 15,000 years old. It was created when an enormous flood gouged out a canyon through 500 feet of solid lava rock.

Shoshone Falls. And this is at a very low water level.

It is possible to kayak to the base of the falls. We wanted to, but did not have the full day it would have taken.

Perrine Bridge is the eighth highest bridge in the United States. It is a world-famous base-jumping structure. In case you don’t know, base jumping means jumping off the bridge and parachuting down. We passed on this activity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrine_Bridge

Pillar Falls. The water cascades between the lava pillars.

The Canyon

People have homes right at the edge of the cliffs. One would hope they don't sleepwalk.

Perrine Coulee Falls

Twin Falls. The ones the city is named after. If you see only one falls in the picture, that is because the other one is no more. It was diverted to the hydroelectric plant. The arrow points to its former location. The name of the city remains unchanged.

Kayaking to Pillar Falls

Cooling off. Temps were well over 100 degrees that day.