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Caribou Mountain is the highest peak in the Caribou Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. [4] The remote mountain is set 40 miles southeast of Idaho Falls, Idaho, in the Caribou–Targhee National Forest, and can be seen to the east of Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
The mountains are in the Caribou National Forest in Bonneville and Caribou counties, near the Wyoming border. Named for Cariboo Fairchild, a prospector who had taken part in the gold rush in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in 1860. Fairchild discovered gold in this area of present-day eastern Idaho two years later. [1]
State Highway 34 (SH-34) is a state highway serving Franklin and Caribou counties in southeastern Idaho.The highway runs northeasterly along the Bear River from Preston towards Soda Springs and the Wyoming state line, where it terminates and becomes Wyoming Highway 239.
The Thousand Springs Scenic Byway is a picturesque section of US 30 in southern Idaho between the towns of Bliss and Buhl, dipping down into the Hagerman Valley and a canyon of the Snake River. The highway has four extensive concurrencies with Interstate Highways: Interstate 84 (I-84) twice, I-86 , and I-15 .
Borah Peak is the highest summit of the U.S. State of Idaho.. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Idaho.. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Caribou National Forest, the smaller and more southerly of the two, is located in southeastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and northern Utah, and has a total area of 987,221 acres (3,995 km 2). There are local ranger district offices located in Montpelier , Pocatello , and Soda Springs in Idaho.
Map of Idaho showing location of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. The Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness Area is a protected wilderness area in Idaho. [2] It was created in 1980 by the United States Congress and renamed in 1984 as the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area in honor of U.S. Senator Frank Church.
Location of Caribou County in Idaho. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Caribou County, Idaho. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...