Catching Up On The Travel Blog 2020 - Minnesota to Boise, Day 4 - Idaho Falls - Site of the Big Jump

 We left Bozeman and headed south past Big Sky, skirted Yellowstone along Earthquake Lake, crossed some volcanic wilderness and the Oregon Trail and soon approached Twin Falls, Idaho.   There is probably not as varied a panorama in the world as in that 400 mile drive.

 We had forgotten that Twin Falls was the site of Evel Knievel's attempted mile-long jump of the Snake River Canyon back in 1974 - but, Twin Falls has remembered.   The falls itself is worth a long drive.

Standing near the falls and looking downriver, you are only a half-mile from Evel's jump site.

 

The town's visitor center has a nice recollection of the whole grand event in a newspaper column posted by one Evel's lawyers, who later became an Idaho supreme court justice.