IrishIroamed wrote:Sheila is the slide lake and slide that you mentioned also known as Earthquake Lake? I do want too visit Earthquake Lake and some point, as well as seeing more of Idaho than just Pocatello.
I loved Idaho when I drove through on my way to Yellowstone last year. Two places to recommend!
1. Massacre Rocks State Park (has rv spaces with hookups) near (I think!) American Falls, Idaho. I tried to make advance reservations for each day's travel to Yellowstone. The "young me" would have just taken off and taken my chances. The "older me" wants a confirmed place to stop along the way.
The online photos of the campground looked pretty much "iffy" (at best!) but Rocks was right on my route, so after much debate I decided to "take a chance". I was astonished to find the campground lovely, scenic and historic. Pull-though sites, hookups, rest rooms, showers and lovely and scenic walking trails. My only regret was that (with other reservations already made along the way) is that I could only stay one night. I could have stayed a week, it was that nice. My site was on a bluff, overlooking the Snake River. Indescribably beautiful.
2. Craters of the Moon National Monument. If one has an interest in volcanoes, and volcanic scenery, the Moon can't be beat. I had known about this place for at least thirty years, always wanting to visit. Finally made it! Well worth a stop. It can be extremely hot and desolate there in summer (and I expected this!), when I went through in late May, I was astonished to find the entire area covered in a velvet carpet of tiny pink wildflowers!! I stayed at Picabo Angler campground, in Picabo, Idaho while visiting the Moon. About 30 miles or so from the Moon. The campground was basic, but had large, roomy, grassy sites with hookups, restrooms and showers. I stayed there two nights, and could have happily stayed there longer.
Idaho is much more beautiful than I had imagined.
Anne