Picture yourself cruising all day, thoroughly gassed but still blissed out by a beautiful road ride that truly took your measure. Before you can kick off your cycling shoes, you’re led to a freshly prepared, scrumptious dinner. Beyond that multicourse fare, lay a cascading natural hot spring.
Our Gem State Hot Springs/multi-sport tour showcases the magnificent Sawtooth mountain range, set across Idaho’s lower midsection. Five days of fast if transfixing rides, brilliant hot springs and wild rivers make up the deliverables cut and shaped by the strong-featured Sawtooths.
Like off-ramps to High Country paradise, besides the stopovers at a succession of remote natural hot springs, our routes take in a triad of colorful, if edge-of-the-world mining towns: Atlanta, Lowman, and Pine.
Mineral-suffused, the hot springs we drop into are clean, delightfully secluded, all at various depths if not degrees. Put another way: You might have a cozy two-seater with a sandy bottom all to yourself; or we’ll share warm, connected earthen pools fed by multiple waterfalls, beheld only by the impossibly broad and bright constellations overhead.
Day 1-2: Sweep through
scenic Boise following the capital cities’ wide greenbelt. Our route to the
Lucky Peak Reservoir passes beneath steep columns of basalt. Climb to our
layover for the night, Idaho City. Idaho City sways between ghost town and
eccentric, outliving settlement. The following day, climb at a decidedly
gradual. Overnight here in steamy splendor, giving back to fast twitch muscles
alongside Kirkham Hot Springs.
Day
3-4: Continue through
thoroughly untamed Idaho high country, routing toward Red Fish Lake, alongside
the town of Stanley. Sweeping up 30 miles to Banner Summit; Challenging?
Absolutely. Rewarding? Unquestionably. Beyond Stanley, buckle up for one of one
of the most stunning if not super rugged wilderness areas in the Intermountain
West: The Sawtooth National Recreation Area – also known as the “American
Alps”. Share our favorite high-mountain destination doe the
night: magnificently shimmering Red Fish Lake, one of the largest in the
Sawtooth range; a five-mile long remnant of an alpine glacier. The next day,
climb toward Galena Summit, the highest paved road in the Northwest. Then brisk
30-miles downhill into Sun Valley, America’s original mountain playground.
Day 5: An enjoyable morning in Sun Valley, interpreting the
historic sites, puts you on a scenic path from Sun Valley into next-door Hailey
–“Idaho’s hometown” then finishing in the gloriously picturesque Silver Creek
Preserve. Lunch here amidst the great splendor. Shuttle back to Boise.
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