Idaho's Geography is UNDERRATED

Idaho’s Physical Geography may be the most underrated of any US state in terms of beauty and diversity.

It’s overshadowed by its neighboring states which are known for their remarkable geography. Wyoming has Yellowstone and the Tetons, Utah has the mighty five, Montana has Glacier...

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[Vincent-the-bold]

Here's another interesting factoid about Idaho. Lewiston, Idaho is a Pacific port town. Container ships sail all the way to Lewiston and dock there. So even though Idaho is landlocked, it is technically a coastal state because of that port

[gabekatz]

Idaho is home to the third largest unbroken wilderness area in the lower 48 states. The frank church river of no return wilderness. Idaho also has some absolutely incredible geological history like the massive ice age floods and ice dams. The state is huge and has vast amounts of empty land and mountainous wilderness to explore. I’ve lived here my whole life and every year I find a new place with gorgeous scenery. From the temperate rainforests at the Canadian border to the alpine peaks to the hot sandy deserts in the south.

[Scigatt]

8:45 Quite recently, the famous Geoguessr player Rainbolt and several other pros were thrown off by Idaho. It was Craters of the Moon that led them astray, though.

[tomw]

The geography, natural beauty, and unspoiled wilderness of the state is reflected in a slogan from the state tourism board many years ago. "Idaho is what America was"

[TheDrEavell]

We visited Idaho for the 2017 Solar Eclipse from England UK. Watched dawn breaking from the shore of Redfish Lake followed by the eclipse in a clear blue sky. Utterly stunning landscape!

[tymarls]

I LOVE IDAHO

Being from southeast Idaho I love all the attention, but I do find it funny that you pretty much ignored the entire panhandle, which has quite a bit a population and some of the most geographically unique parts of the state. It’s beautiful up there.

Make it 30 minutes!!

[nealwickham]

The Salmon River is also called the River of No Return. It got this name when the Lewis and Clark expedition came to the Salmon River and asked the local Shoshone if they could travel down the Salmon to the Columbia and to the Pacific Ocean. The Shoshone confirmed that the river did lead to the Pacific but told the expedition that they could not travel down that river. They said that anyone who traveled down that river has never returned and called it the River of No Return. The River of No Return Wilderness is the largest in continental US.

[kristinegoodman]

I was born and raised and have lived here all but 3 years of my life. Every year I discover something new and beautiful!

[thebob]

One thing you did miss worth an interesting mention is the fact due to our geography we are one of the two places in the world where the Star Garnet can be found naturally the other place being India, if your ever interested you can literally book a trip to go and sift for your own gems, we are called the Gem State for a reason, and if you ever can find a local who can take you to all the places they know personally there are a lot of people out here who know the area really well and know spots that will blow your mind with the view and the natural beauty.

[nealwickham]

Idaho is only inland state with salmon runs and these runs were very large at one time. They are still some of the most important runs in the US. They came all the way up the Snake River to Shoshone Falls at one time but still make a long semicircular run up the Salmon River to Stanley Basin and Redfish Lake. Redfish Lake is named after the Sockeye salmon that run there.

[robertmahler]

What happened to northern Idaho? You completely missed the most beautiful part of the state!

[nealwickham]

The Palouse country is very beautiful rolling farm country and the most scenic part is in North Idaho where the Palouse runs up into the mountains. There are several large lakes in the panhandle that are among the largest and most beautiful lakes in the country.

[SpaceCircIes]

I live in the floodplain of lake Bonneville, where an old dam broke and swept through a lot of the state. The remainder of lake bonneville is now the salt lake in utah. The substrate below my soil in my backyard is filled with round river rock, and it's awesome.

[kevinriehl]

I drove through Idaho about 7 years ago and have been telling people about how beautiful it is ever since! It is an incredibly overlooked state where I personally discovered the true meaning of "majesty" in the old song "America, The Beautiful."

[zenobiaw]

Pend Oreille Lake (in the panhandle) was the location for the ice dam that that held back glacial lake Missoula in the last ice age. The ice dam failed multiple times, which caused catastrophic floods to surge over parts of Washington State and helped form the Channeled Scablands (in Washington) and the Columbia basin as much of the water found it's way to the Columbia river to be let out into the Pacific ocean. You can see that Pend Oreille Lake was formed by glaciers if you ever visit. It is absolutely beautiful there.

[AVMamfortas]

I am an English-Australian and I just love Idaho. I fly my flt sim Savage Cub there. Johnson's Creek is a fine base to explore from.

[meatusbeatus]

I’ve lived here my entire life and didn’t even know about some of these places. Great video!

[theodorecardenas]

Idaho is also the farthest inland where seafaring salmon come back yearly to spawn. Sadly, hydroelectric dams cause less and less salmon to return year over year.

[nathanb]

Nothing compares to the Sawtooth Mountains. As a kid, I & my family spent time enjoying the crystal clear lakes every summer. Now living in N Florida, I would spend every summer in the mountains of the great Northwest if I could. But I don't miss the snow.

[MikeP]

I live in Utah but have traveled to Idaho many, many times. It's a unique and beautiful state.
If you ever get bored, look up Lake Bonneville, the enormous lake that once covered almost all of western Utah before part of the shoreline collapsed and it all drained into the Snake River. In Utah there are benchmarks on the mountains from where the water level used to sit, like a ring around a bathtub. There are actually two lines from two separate eras of the lake. The Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake are the only remnants of Lake Bonneville.