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The Middle Fork of the Salmon River is a 104-mile-long (167 km) river in central Idaho in the northwestern United States. [1] It is a tributary to the Salmon River , and lies in the center of the 2.5-million-acre (3,900 sq mi; 10,000 km 2 ) Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area .
In 1931, 1,090,000 acres (4,400 km 2) in Central Idaho were declared by the U.S. Forest Service as The Idaho Primitive Area. In 1963, the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness was split into three parts: The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness , the Salmon River Breaks Primitive area, and the Magruder Corridor—the land between the two areas.
The Salmon River, also known as the "River of No Return", is a river located in the U.S. state of Idaho in the western United States. It flows for 425 miles (685 km) through central Idaho, draining a rugged, thinly populated watershed of 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2 ).
The charming River Terrace Inn provided a boutique bolthole at the end of each day as we chalked up 739 miles of epic exploring, starting with the astounding Goblin Valley State Park – a ...
Commercial outfitters offer pre-arranged trips, and people with sufficient technical expertise run the rapids on their own. River access points with parking lots along Highway 12 are at the following sites and highway mile markers: Knife Edge, 107; Split Creek, 111; Fish Creek, 119; Nine Mile, 130, and White Pine, 138. [9]
Blackfoot River: Earthfill 55 17 Blackfoot Reservoir: 417,000 0.514 0 Idaho Bureau of Indian Affairs 1911 Bliss Dam: Snake River: Concrete gravity 70 21 Bliss Reservoir: 11,000 0.014 75 Idaho Power 1950 Brownlee Dam† Snake River: Earthfill 420 130 Brownlee Reservoir: 1,426,700 1.7598 585.4 Idaho Power: 1958 C. J. Strike Dam: Snake River ...
Location: Blaine and Camas counties, Idaho: Coordinates: 1]: Type: reservoir: Primary inflows: Big Wood River and Camas, Lava, Poison, and Rock creeks [2]: Primary outflows: Big Wood River: Basin countries: United States: Built: 1910 (): Surface area: 3,740 acres (1,510 ha) [3]: Water volume: 195,000 acre-feet (0.241 km 3): Surface elevation: 4,800 feet (1,500 m): Magic Reservoir is a ...
Dirt road in the Raft River Valley, October 2008. The valley is bounded by the Sublett Range on the northern east, the Black Pine Mountains on the southern east, the Raft River Mountains on the south, the Upper Raft River Valley on the very southern west, the Jim Sage Mountains on the southern west, the Cotterel Mountains on the northern west, and the Snake River on the north.