The National Oregon/California Trail Center The National Oregon/California Trail Center is located in Oregon-California Trail Portal at Big Hill Montpelier. The center has on display the “Living History,” a Emigrants by the thousands entered present day eastern Idaho at this dramatic recreation of the pioneers’ journey from Missouri to location traveling along the Oregon-California Trail. Emigrants on Clover Creek. Located on the actual Clover Creek Encampment the trail encountered Big Hill, thought to be the steepest and longest site, the center offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience descent found on the trip west. Wheel ruts are still visible today from pioneer life as it was more than a hundred years ago. the locking of wagon wheels.

Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge Established in 1968, the refuge encompasses 18,000 acres of Minnetonka Cave marsh, open water and grasslands. Minnetonka is the largest limestone cave in the Bear Lake The refuge provides a vital nesting state. Located near the town of St. Charles, the Bear Lake is often called the Caribbean of area for a variety of waterfowl such cave is a geologic wonder dating back nearly the Rockies for its intense turquoise blue as Mallards, and Sandhill Cranes. 320 million years. Breathtaking passageways water. Bear Lake is home to several species extending more than 2000 feet into the hill side of fish found nowhere else in the world, such contain nine rooms of fascinating stalactites, as Bonneville Cisco. During pioneer times, stalagmites and banded travertine. Bear Lake was the site of Mountain Men Rendezvous’ and fur trading. Year round Paris Tabernacle & recreation includes swimming, boating, fishing, Historic District hiking, biking, and snowmobiling. Paris has a remarkable architectural Gutzon Borglum Monument legacy. One of which is the Paris Gutzon Borglum was a prolific American Soda Springs Tabernacle, a Romanesque Revival style sculptor best known for his presidents’ Soda Springs was a landmark on the red sandstone church built between sculptures on Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Oregon Trail attracting pioneers to 1884 and 1889. Other architecturally Borglum was born in St. Charles, Idaho in 1867. its mineral springs. The town also significant local buildings include the His marble head structure of Abraham Lincoln boasts having the world’s only captive Paris Hotel, the Pendry Drug, and the is on display in the Capitol Rotunda. Two stone geyser. On November 30, 1937 in an Bear Lake County Courthouse. monuments honoring Borglum are located in attempt to find a hot water source for St. Charles. a local swimming pool, a well driller set free the natural geyser at a depth of 317 feet.