 | | | Welcome to Idaho! Idaho's landscape boasts high mountain peaks, alpine lakes, lush forests and desert sand dunes. Enjoy Idaho's rivers where visitors can whitewater raft, fish, or take a guided river tour. Visitors can also indulge in visiting a winery or museum, head over to a ghost town or ride a train or roller coaster. |
| | | | In winter, visitors are treated to Idaho's sunny skies and tempted by feather-light powder and short lift lines. With over 16,000 acres in 16 downhill areas, there's something for every taste and ability. Idaho offers 46 Nordic ski areas with lots of room to glide, and the state offers more than 7,200 miles of groomed snowmobile trails. Visitors can also take in a festival or winter carnival, try ice skating, or go tubing with the kids.Visit Grangeville, Idaho, located in the north central area of the state, is considered the getaway to five wilderness areas and four national forests totaling 5 1/2 million acres. Or travel the Lewis & Clark Highway US 12; the shortest route from the mid-west to the Pacific Coast and the longest highway within a national forest in the nation. Head over to Bruneau Dunes State Park, the home of North America's tallest single structured sand dune at 470 feet high.No matter what, there's an adventure for everyone in Idaho!Idaho Facts: Capital City: Boise Admission to Statehood: July 3, 1890, 43rd stateBird: Mountain BluebirdFlower: Syringa Tree: Western White Pine |
|  | The Idaho flag is a blue field bordered with gilt fringe, with a colored state seal of Idaho in the center of a blue field. The woman represents liberty, justice and equality. The man is a miner. The pictures on the shield represent the main industries of forestry, farming and mining. The cornucopias (horn of plenty) are symbols of abundance. The elks head represents wildlife. The words "State of Idaho" are embroidered in with block letters a red band, which is bordered in gold. The flag was adopted in 1907. |
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