SEASONAL ACTIVITES IN SOUTHWEST

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH Start o the year celebrating all Idaho’s winter beer event, Treefort Music Fest brings things snowy at the McCall Winter Destination: Beer brings dozens hundreds of bands to downtown Carnival. The annual festival takes of Idaho breweries to McCall. Boise for five days of music, art and over McCall, bringing larger-than-life Have a weekend adventure in a cultural events. It’s the best time to sculptures, races, music and backcountry yurt outside of Idaho venture out into the otherworldly more. Hit the slopes at , City. Fat bike or snowshoe at Jug Owyhee Canyonlands before the Resort, Mountain Ranch. If ice fishing is summer heat. or . more your thing, Lake Cascade Snowmobile in the mountains State Park is one of the best spots around McCall, Lake Cascade or to do it. the Pine-Featherville area.

JUNE MAY June is Idaho Wine Month. Visit the Sunnyslope Wine Trail Hop on a mountain bike and APRIL in Caldwell or do an urban tasting cruise more than 2,000 miles April is Idaho Craft Beer Month tour through Garden City or of singletrack, or stick to the — a great time to explore the Downtown Boise. Attend the pavement and cruise the 46-mile 25+ breweries in Southwest Idaho. annual Emmett Cherry Festival, Boise Greenbelt or the 84-mile Spring brings wildflower blooms which celebrates one of the first Weiser River Trail. Idaho to the Boise foothills and the fruits to ripen in Idaho. Shakespeare Festival kicks o mountains of McCall. It’s a beautiful mid-May, hosting five world-class time to go on a zipline tour at The North Fork Championships, plays in its stunning state-of-the-art Cascade Rope Challenge and an annual whitewater kayaking outdoor amphitheater. Ziplines or Tamarack Resort. extreme race, takes place on the North Fork of the Payette River just north of Banks, Idaho. In Weiser, The National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest & Festival begins — a week-long event that has been taking place since 1953. JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER With more miles of raftable Huckleberries have been For three magical days, the skies whitewater than any other state in sweetening under the summer of Boise are filled with hot air the lower 48, experiencing the thrill sun and are finally ready to pick balloons during the Spirit of Boise of clean, rushing rivers is just part by late summer, which means Balloon Classic. The Peregrine of summer in Southwest Idaho. berry picking and the Donnelly Fund’s World Center for Birds Raft down world-class whitewater, Huckleberry Festival. The tiny of Prey hosts Fall Flights, a once- take a jet boat tour through Hells mountain town of Yellow Pine in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Canyon or spend a few leisurely comes alive during the annual birds like eagles, hawks, falcons hours floating the Boise River. Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival. and owls show o their aerial Hundreds of professional cowboys skills up close. In Nampa, the Snake River and cowgirls convene at the Stampede takes place as it has annual Caldwell Night Rodeo. for more than a century. It’s one Late summer is also one of the of the top ten regular season best months to camp out professional rodeos in the nation. in Southwest Idaho. Every five years, thousands descend on Boise’s Basque Block for Jaialdi, a celebration of all things Basque with traditional food, drink, dancing and games.

DECEMBER Ring in a New Year like you never have before at the Idaho Potato Drop in Boise or the Cherry Rise in Emmett. Dash through the snow on a horse-drawn sleigh ride. Glide and slide on ice skates at The Village in Meridian or Indian NOVEMBER Creek Plaza in Caldwell. OCTOBER As the temperatures cool o, the many natural hot springs in Cruise one of the nine scenic Southwest Idaho are the place byways that cross the region or to be. Soak in a natural pool like get out and hike through the fall Pine Flats or Kirkham, or take the colors. See the City of Trees from TO BROWSE MORE, VISIT family to a developed spring the foothills or step back in time visitsouthwestidaho.org/travel-guides like The Springs at Idaho City visiting ghost towns like Silver and Gold Fork. Just after City, Atlanta and Idaho City. Relive Thanksgiving, holiday lights daring escapes (and possibly see VISIT SOUTHWEST IDAHO MEDIA KIT dazzle at Winter Garden aGlow visitsouthwestidaho.org/media an apparition) at the historic in the Idaho Botanical Garden @southwestidaho Old Idaho State Penitentiary. and Caldwell Holiday Lights [email protected] Fall is the best time to catch a at Indian Creek Plaza. Football game on the blue turf.