The Magic Valley

After our time in Flaming Gorge, we headed to our first major destination of the summer: Idaho. We chose to make our first "home base" in south-central Idaho in what is known as the Magic Valley. 

The Magic Valley along the course of the Snake River.
You can see the green irrigated land.
Heyburn & Burley are the green flag in the bottom of the smile.

The land would all look like this with irrigation.

The land is fairly flat with rolling hills cut through by the remarkable Snake River. 

It is naturally arid (think desert). 





However, once irrigation from the Snake River was begun, the fertile ground became productive farm land, source of Idaho potatoes, hey, grain crops, beets, cattle and more. All as if by magic. All it took was water.

Our home in the Magic Valley was in the Riverside RV park in Heyburn, ID, a municipal park on the banks of the Snake River. This park was GREAT. The sites were large and level. The space between sites was large and covered in lush green grass, the likes of which we haven't seen for MANY months. We had fun just walking barefoot in the grass!

From our "home base" we ventured out to explore sites around Twin Falls and Shoshone Falls, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Minidoka National Historic Site, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, and the beautiful Snake River gorge. Look for pictures and comments about these "day trips" in future posts.