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Galena Summit is a high mountain pass in the western United States in central Idaho, at an elevation of 8,701 feet (2,652 m) above sea level. The pass is located in the Boulder Mountains, in the northwest corner of Blaine County, within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area of the Sawtooth National Forest. The summit is on State Highway 75, the ...
Galena Peak ranks as the 94th-highest peak in Idaho, and it is part of the Boulder Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. [1] The mountain is situated 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Ketchum, Idaho, on the common border shared by Blaine County and Custer County. It is set in the Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness on land managed by ...
Galena Lodge is a Nordic skiing and mountain biking recreation area in Blaine County, Idaho. It was established in 1976 at the location of the former mining town of Galena (1876–1890). [ 1 ] The lodge operation is based on a special-use permit from the US Forest Service , the first one issued in the US for the Nordic ski resort. [ 2 ]
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) is a national recreation area in central Idaho, United States that is managed as part of Sawtooth National Forest.The recreation area, established on August 22, 1972, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service, and includes the Sawtooth, Hemingway–Boulders, and Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds wilderness areas.
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Further north in Shoshone, US-93 connects with the southern terminus of State Highway 75, the former route of US-93 to Ketchum and over Galena Summit (8,701 feet (2,652 m) above sea level) to Stanley and Clayton. Present-day US-93 diverts in a northeasterly route to Richfield, Carey, the Craters of the Moon, and Arco.
Galena Airport was used by the USAF 317th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Elmendorf AFB as a forward-deployed Base to intercept Soviet aircraft intruding on United States airspace over the Bering Sea. Depicted: Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, 1965. Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport ( IATA: GAL, ICAO: PAGA, FAA LID: GAL) is a state-owned public-use ...
Pre‑1976. Scenic. ← SR 430. → SR 439. State Route 431 (SR 431), commonly known as the Mount Rose Highway, is a 24.413-mile-long (39.289 km) highway in Washoe County, Nevada, that connects Incline Village at Lake Tahoe with Reno. The highway, a Nevada Scenic Byway, takes its name from Mount Rose, which lies just off the highway.