Interesting Facts about Idaho

• Thirsty travelers on the brink of Hells Canyon could look down on the waters of the Snake River but had no way to get down to drink.
• Wood River is known as the Upside Down River. At one place it flows through a gorge 4 feet wide and 104 feet deep. At another point the gorge is 104 feet wide and the river 4 feet deep.
• A pioneer family of Palouse country once gave an Indian family a meal. From that time on, the pioneer family found a large salmon left at their door at the same time each year.
• During the gold boom in the early 1860s, Idaho City was a large, rip-roaring boom town, where crime and "frontier justice" ran rampant. Of the 200 people buried in the pioneer cemetery of Idaho City, only 28 died of natural causes.
• A unique Idaho attraction is Thousand Springs. Each spring spouts out from the side of a single cliff.
• The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State brought great clouds of ash to Idaho, and the Palouse crop the next year increased 30%.