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Show Lunar Landscape At Craters Of The Moon Continued from Page 9 sharply around the stub end of the Wasatch Mountain range in Idaho to head for its destination, Great Salt Lake in Utah. Between Soda Point and the town of Soda Springs (it, like Montpelier and Preston also has golf course) is the Alexander Reservoir. What Soda Springs has that no other town can boast is a geyser. A well was drilled. It spouted, and was capped with a valve that can be opened and closed. Pocatello, 15 miles north, is the gateway to the American man-controll- Falls Reservoir, so big it coud vesaccommodate seagoing sels; the original site of Old Fort Hall on the Bannock-Shoshon- e Indian Reservation ; and the Great Rift. THE RIFT, 800 feet deep in places, stretches from Crystal Ice Caves near American Falls to the border of Craters of the Moon National Monument. (Another icy wonder, Shoshone Indian Cave, is south of the Monument, or between Shoshone and lower Wood River Valley). Topography of the monument (on its north is Arco, the first town in the world to have been served with electricity generat ed by the atom, at the Atomic Energy Commissions National Reactor Testing Station; and on its south is Cirey with water-fow- l and fishing lakes) is, current exploration by space ship attests, similar to that of the moon. Most of the monument is des- tined to become classed as a wilderness area, shielding the Carey Kipuka, Blue Dragon, Big Crater, North Crater, Serrate and Black lava flows, Coyote and Crescent buttes, Natural Bridge and a part of the Great Rift from vehicular invasion. ARCO, NAMED after an Italian count, is at the point where Lost River Valley is joined by the Snake River plain. The valley is named after Big Lost River, which flows onto the plain and sinks. Best view of the sinks is from the n Valley-Crater- s of the Moon Highway near Howe. Upstream from Arco is the Mackay Reservoir, overlooked by Mt. MeCaleb, named for a Challis-bounfreighter slain by Indians. From the reservoir roads lead past the Devils Bedstead, a mountain, to the historic Clayton Silver Mine on the Salmon River and, via Trail Creek, to Yellow-stone-Su- d Ketch um. Either route leads to Basin, which offers an drive by way of Bear of a Walt (settingand movie) Payette Stanley alluring Valley Disney River to McCall and Boise. BOISE IS THE capital of Idaho, and invites visitors to the exhibits in the spacious lobby of the State House. East of the Payette River drive is Idahos famous Primitive Area, where, ingressing by foot, horseback or plane, you can stay lost from commercialism from spring until fall. u g u s t events that Ju1 impell tourists to Wood River Valley, where a monument stands to the late Nobel Prize author, Ernest Hemingway, are the regional soaring championships from the turfed Hailey Airport, and the Wagon Days celebration at Ketchum in which o r i ginal bigwheeled ore wagons are drawn of jerkline-guide- d by multi-span- s teams. old colorful Architecturally churches in Bellevue and Hailey are a wonderful part of their mountain-hedgesettings. In the latter town bells peal from belfries several times daily, year in and year out. y-- high-bodie- d Shoshone INDIAN ICE CAVES RATED by LIFE Mai pot f iattrait in the aarthwaii Owe the Natsral Wenders of the World. A Utalatl 17 miles nerth el Shoshone. Wei m, m Hifhwey 91 en the reed to Sen Volley, Crntert el the Meen end Yellewateee heck. 10 Tlie Salt Lake Tribune Home Magazine |
