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Land of the Yankee Fork State Park is a history-oriented public recreation area covering 521 acres (211 ha) in Custer County, Idaho, United States. The state park interprets Idaho's frontier mining history, including the ghost towns Bayhorse, Bonanza, and Custer. The interpretive center near Challis has a museum and gold panning station.
Gold Dredge, Klondike River, Canada, 1915 The Yankee Fork dredge near Bonanza City, Idaho, which operated into the 1950s. A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods. The original gold dredges were large, multi-story machines built in the first half of the 1900s.
Built by Bucyrus-Erie, the dredge was purchased by the Snake River Mining Company in 1939 and hauled to the Yankee Fork for assembly. The dredge recovered over $1,200,000 in gold and was shut down in 1952 after the claims owned by the company were dredged.
Custer is a ghost town in Custer County, Idaho, United States.Established in 1877, it is at (44.3874133, -114.6959118), at an elevation of 6,470 feet (1,972 It lies along Yankee Fork Road southwest of the city of Challis, within the Challis National Forest.
The Middle Fork is about 110 miles (180 km) long, while the Main Fork is about 81 miles (130 km) in length. The Middle Fork raft trip run ends 7 miles (11 km) prior to the beginning of the Main Fork run; Corn Creek is the start of the Main Fork section of the Salmon River.
Atlanta, Bear Valley, Bay Horse, Florence, Gilmore, Mackay, Patterson, and Yankee Fork all ran on the order of ten to twenty million dollars, and Elk City, Leesburg, Pierce, Rocky Bar, and Warren's make up the rest of the major Idaho mining areas that stand out in the sixty or so regions of production worthy of mention.
C.J. Strike Wildlife Management Area at 10,664 acres (43.16 km 2) is an Idaho wildlife management area in Elmore and Owyhee counties southwest of Mountain Home. [1] The Idaho Department of Fish and Game manages Idaho Power Company, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management lands surrounding C. J. Strike Reservoir on the Snake and Bruneau rivers. [2]
Cecil D. Andrus Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a 23,908 acres (96.75 km 2) Idaho wildlife management area in Washington County, 18 miles (29 km) from Cambridge, Idaho. [1]