With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama added wilderness protection Friday to more than a quarter-million acres in Idaho. He signed the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak ...

ATLANTA, Idaho -- The search for a man who disappeared while hiking in the Sawtooth Wilderness area continued Tuesday. Jimmie Yorgensen, the president of Idaho Mountain Search and Rescue, described ...

STANLEY • Happy anniversary, wilderness! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act by taking a hike in a wilderness area, naturally. An easy place to start is the Sawtooth Wilderness near ...

Directions: From Spokane it’s a minimum 8-hour drive to Redfish Lake. Roads are windy and going can be slow. Difficulty: Depends. There are trips suitable to all ages, abilities and fitness levels.

My son and I arrived at the turn for Alpine Lake high in the Sawtooth Wilderness at the same time as a couple. We all debated: Take the short, downhill walk to Alpine Lake now, or do it on the way ...

The Sawtooth Wilderness in Central Idaho is a protected area that features high mountain peaks and hundreds of lakes. Photo by Clark Corbin / Idaho Capital Sun. Several law enforcement agencies have ...

Nothing quite beats the feeling of waking up to a calm, quiet, high-mountain lake, like this scene at dawn on a trip in 2021 to Sawtooth Lake in the Sawtooth Wilderness in the Sawtooth National ...

Fast Fact: Sawtooth Wilderness, according to the EPA, has some of the cleanest air in the lower 48 states. The Sawtooth Wilderness is a world of jagged peaks—hundreds of them, with 50 measuring over ...

STANLEY, Idaho • It’s hard to be in Idaho long without seeing a photograph of Sawtooth Lake reflecting stately Mount Regan. “You can see it on calendars, postcards. So everybody wants to see it in ...

BOISE, Idaho – About 20 backcountry campers in the Sawtooth Wilderness had to be evacuated because of a central Idaho wildfire that several hundred firefighters are trying to snuff out before it gets ...

STANLEY, Idaho — The Bench Lake Fire continues to burn in the Sawtooth wilderness near Stanley. As of Thursday evening, it had burned 2,037 acres and was 8% contained. Firefighters are set up at an ...

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