Posts Tagged 'stanley'

HIGH-END PLACES TO EAT
Many visitors en route to Stanley will spend a night in Boise, Idaho’s capital and business center. Though a city of modest size, Boise has many metropolitan attractions – including some fine restaurants. A few favorites are listed below. They’re a little more spendy than the local drive-in, but hey, if you’re [...]

THREE PLACES TO FISH NEAR STANLEY
Main Salmon River:
The Main Salmon River begins its over 900 mile journey to the Pacific Ocean from the Stanley/Sawtooth area. Before it joins with the Snake River and then the Columbia, it becomes a mighty river but in the Stanley area, it is a much smaller stream and a great [...]

Main Salmon River:
The Main Salmon River begins its over 900 mile journey to the Pacific Ocean from the Stanley/Sawtooth area.   Before it joins with the Snake River and then the Columbia, it becomes a mighty river but in the Stanley area, it is a much smaller stream and a great place to fish.  The Idaho [...]

Sawtooth & Alpine Lakes:
Round trip to Sawtooth Lake – 10 miles
Round trip to Alpine Lake     -   8 miles
Intermediate hiking and moderately strenuous
This is a not to be missed hike in the Sawtooth Mountains that includes everything you would want to see on a hike in the mountains.  The trail starts at the Iron Creek trailhead [...]

One of the greatest joy’s of owning a Fly Shop is in helping visitor’s to  Central Idaho learn to fish our incredible water’s. For over 35 year’s we have been  fishing these water’s to determine the best gear to use, whether it be floating the Middle Fork of the Salmon River with Solitude River Trips, [...]

Elk Mountain Loop:
Loop length  — 11.5 miles   Intermediate skill level – moderately strenuous
The trailhead for this ride is located by driving about 4 miles west of Stanley on Highway 21 to the Stanley Lake road then driving about 3.5 miles on that road to the trailhead just beyond the turnoff to the Inlet Campground at [...]

The Middle Fork of the Salmon River is among forty nine other venues around the world that you must “fly fish before you die” – at least according to author Chris Santella, which features the river in his book, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die:
“The Middle Fork of the Salmon – framed by [...]

At the base of the beauttiful Sawtooth Mountains lies the Stanley Museum. Stanley was founded in 1890 and named for Civil War veteran Capt. John Stanley, who discovered gold in the area while passing through on his way to Idaho City. The Stanley Museum is located in the former Valley Creek Ranger Station and features [...]

McCall Aviation is an air charter company based in central Idaho. With a fleet of fourteen airplanes, McCall Aviation specializes in charters to the backcountry and city-to-city flights throughout the intermountain West. The company operates two full service facilities (McCall and Salmon) along with seasonal operations in Stanley and a counter and gate in Boise [...]

In the mid 1930’s miners who held claims on the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River. The miners were looking for anyone interested in dredging their claims on the Yankee Fork. There were about two to three dozen claims involved. Tests indicated approximately $16,000,000 worth of gold was recoverable, they formed a company [...]