Southeast Idaho is filled with Pioneer Oregon Trail and Railroad Historic sites.
Open year round. The Bannock County Historical Museum houses exhibits, objects, and records relating to Bannock County and Pocatello’…
The Bear River Heritage Area straddles the Idaho-Utah border where the Great Basin and the Rocky Mountains meet. Come and experience its…
The January 29, 1863 Bear River Massacre of 250 or more Native Americans, by Colonel Patrick Connor and his troops, occurred here. It was…
Open summer only. On the outside, this 15 room mansion resembles a southern plantation home. On the inside, it houses an historic…
Built in 1892 by Isaac Evans, the Blue Goose was originally a furniture store and Post Office. Clarence Hughes runs this charming store,…
The store, built in 1908, is a last remnant of a small but important livestock community in that time. The once famous Henry Stampede Rodeo…
Open summer only. Established in 1879, this historic community on the Oregon Trail is a well preserved example of a small Mormon settlement…
China Hat and China Cap are rhyolite domes that formed around older volcano lava flows. There are many faults located in the area which…
The first department store in Idaho, the Evans Co-op, which was part of the Mormon cooperative movement, ZCMI, of the 1860s, in which local…
The De Smet Monument in Soda Springs, Idaho is comprised of a bronze bust of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet and four interpretive signs briefly…
Fort Hall is a replica of the historic facility that served pioneer travelers along the Oregon Trail. Enter the massive wooden gates and…
Open summer only. The oldest continually settled town in Idaho, Franklin was founded in 1860 by Mormon pioneers. Several original buildings…
Summer only. This small log and wood frame building over 125 years old, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In…
Over 300,000 emigrants used the Oregon-California Trail between 1840 and 1869. Three ruts are visible at the bottom of the hill, indicating…
Gutzon Borglum was a prolific American sculptor best know for his presidents’ sculptures on Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Borglum was…
Free, clear sparkling soda water still is available in a beautiful Soda Springs city park located two miles north from the center of town.…
Open year round. Idaho’s Natural History: Don’t just see it, experience it! Visitors will discover dinosaurs, ice-age mammals, how to live…
Open year round. The Idaho Potato Museum celebrates the humble spud and its contribution to humanity. Located in Blackfoot, Idaho, the…
The site is a 7 mile segment of “The Lander Cut-off of the Oregon Trail”, the first road commissioned by Congress with funding…
This site is the point on the Bear River where water was first diverted by Mormon settlers to develop an agriculture industry in Gem Valley…
