A paved multi-use non-motorized Wood River Trail pathway

11 CENTURY OF STRUGGLE & FISHING CONNECT WITH HISTORY REGULATIONS Interpretive Signs – Located at Once part of the historic Union Pacific Boxcar Bend, named for Union Pacific boxcars which were lowered into the river in 1965 and filled with large Railroad line where trains transported silver boulders, this site is a popular fishing access point. The and lead ore and gold during the mining “Struggle” sign addresses the problems of controlling the era of the 1880s, the Wood River Trail is now river and reducing erosion. The “Regulations” sign gives a paved 32-mile multi-use trail, providing HULEN LAKE anglers what they need to know. MEADOWS CREEK Boundary non-motorized transportation, fitness D A Campground O and fun to cyclists, walkers, joggers and R Interpretive Sign – Of the Sun Peak K 12 EAST FORK MINES MILE 0 E equestrians. 1 Picnic E three mines operating out East Fork Canyon between R Area C Hemingway Memorial L 1936 and 1957, the Triumph Mine was the greatest ADAMS I This “Rails to Trails” conversion Telemark A GULCH R producer, bringing in more than $20 million. South of 2 Hill T became a reality when a new life ROAD East Fork Road was the townsite of Gimlet, which by 1882 for the abandoned railway was sported four houses, a post office and a saloon. MILE 1 SUN envisioned back in the 1970s. Sun Valley 13 DEER CREEK MINES – A small railroad stop The first mile of the Wood Lodge VALLEY called Zinc Spur was located here. This served as a River Trail was paved WARM MILE 2 SPRINGS D drop-off point for the galena ore which came from mines R in 1984 and, with the ROAD Y E L directly across the valley to the west. A foundry was built 3 L passing of a bond in A V N Dollar here where galena, not zinc, was processed and loaded 1988, and with grant 4 SU Mountain onto rail cars. MILE 3 ELKHORN support and additional k Warm e e Springs donations, the r Lodge 14 HAILEY DEPOT Interpretive Sign - At the turn C Timber Trestle Wood River Trail g s Bridge i n of the century, Hailey functioned as an important trade was completed p r S center for the mining and livestock industries. Between MILE 4 in 1992. m River 6 Farnlun Park a r S K I L I F T Run 5 MORNING Croy and Walnut Streets, a depot stood along the tracks W STAR Bald Plaza E L K H O R N R D that connected Shoshone to Ketchum. (Designed by the Interpretive signs ROAD Mountain S K I L I F T Community School students) along the way keep this MILE 5 7 history alive for those on Cold Springs Tunnels Interpretive Sign – A guide to the trail. Signs already installed Pegram Bridge 15 ARBORETUM KETCHUM 8 native trees and shrubs, this site was established in 2003 are labeled here. Others are St. Luke’s Wood River and 2004 and features a loop trail through several drip- available for sponsorship. HOSPITAL 9 watered plant communities, showing living examples of MILE 6 Tunnel drought-tolerant and disease-resistant species. 10 16 BELLEVUE MINES – Mineral explorations along A SELF-GUIDED Sawtooth HISTORICAL TOUR Botanical the foothills, side canyons, and tributary valleys of the Garden Wood River caused great excitement beginning in 1878. MILE 7 r Mining extended from Ketchum to Bellevue including GIMLET e 1 RECREATION TRAILBLAZERS Interpretive i v (just west of here) the Mineral Hill District, home of the R Sign – A tribute to the team that formed the Blaine Boxcar Rainbow Bend Bridge d Bend oo Minnie Moore, Bullion, and Croesus Mines. County Recreation District in 1976, and then created the Overview D W A g O i “Rails to Trails” path to connect the Wood River Valley’s 11 R B 17 BELLEVUE DEPOT – Once a lively camp of K communities. R k tents, wagons and willow shanties, this hamlet grew into F O r Tunnel S T o E A F one of Idaho’s only chartered cities in 1883 while under

12 t 2 BALD MOUNTAIN Interpretive Sign – Tells s territorial government. The Bellevue Depot was located a how Sun Valley and Bald Mountain became a world- Ritzau Park E where Second Street becomes a gravel road at the GOLDEN EAGLE Anderson Bridge class ski resort. south end of Bellevue. RANCH MILE 9 Greenhorn Gimlet Pegram Bridge RD 3 KETCHUM DEPOT Interpretive Sign – The CH Fire Station GUL very spot where Union Pacific Railroad chair Averell GREENHORN Emergency HEATHERLANDS Phone WOOD RIVER TRAIL Harriman got out of his private rail car for the first time, H R D MILE 10 L C STARWEATHER U donned a pair of wooden skis and trekked through fresh G HWY 75 and Other Roads/ I O powder into what was then the Brass Ranch. (Designed O H Carretera 75 y otras by the Community School students) THE Wood River Trail VALLEY Paved Pathway/Camino Esfaltardo CLUB – Near the 4 THE PHILADELPHIA SMELTER 12 Interpretive Sign along Trail/ confluence of Warm Springs Creek and the Big Wood ZINC MILE 11 Cartel Interpretivo al Camino E E R C D R E E K SPUR

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D e BUTTERCUPROAD e Pocket Park/Parque Pequeño silver and consisted of four furnaces, charcoal kilns, r K C 13 E r e e k E boarding houses and administrative buildings. It was R Designated Parking Area/ MILE 12 C

here where Idaho’s first electric lights were turned on. N Estacionamiento A I Following the decline of mining, the smelter closed D W Restroom/Servicios N I permanently in 1893. o

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d MILE 13 5 FROM RAILS TO TRAILS Interpretive Sign – Pocket Park PUBLIC ACCESS (To Big Wood River) ACESO PÚBLICO (al Río Big Wood) This timber trestle bridge, which crosses Trail Creek, at NORTHRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS one time was the oldest bridge in Idaho. Built in 1883, D R FLYING R (To National Forest or BLM) it was the final link of the Wood River Branch of the i H HEART v C ACCESO PÚBLICO e MILE 14 L Oregon Short Line Railroad, and saw its last freight train r U G (al Bosque Nacional o BLM) Y in 1980. In 1994, the bridge was rebuilt as part of the rails- L E I G Emergency Phone to-trails conversion for recreational use. Q U Wood River (Greenhorn Fire Station) High School HAILEY 14 MILE 15 Te l éfono de Emergencia 6 SHEEP TRAILING – An homage to the history Community Campus (Estación de Bomberos) A D O BCRD Headquarters of sheep trailing and its mark on the valley. In the 1930s, D E R M O K C R E 15 Hospital/Hospital AT G E BCRD Aquatic Center Ketchum shipped more sheep than anywhere in the U R Bow L C C • Pump Park H Y Bridge Sand Volleyball U.S. and the stock driveway, used to trail bands of R D RO • C sheep from southern Idaho to their mountain grazing Draper Wood River MILE 16 allotments, often ran parallel to the railroad tracks. To ek re Preserve Friedman create a key section of the Wood River Trail, just south of C Blaine County y Memorial Ketchum, the Recreation District needed the consent of o Native Plant Airport WOODSIDE r Arboretum local sheep ranchers, who willingly agreed to share the C D B MILE 17 R i sheep right of way in 1983. H g C L U W G o – In 1926, a tram line O 7 TRIUMPH TRAM LINE D o RA d was constructed from the Triumph Mine complex in East O OL MILE 18 C R Fork Canyon. The line ran west through Elkhorn Gulch i v 16 Durg Memorial B e and across Highway 75 to a lower rail terminal south of R r Pocket Park O A the Ketchum Depot. During the l950s, the tram line was D F O RD dismantled and hauled to Salt Lake City. R MILE 19 O A D 8 COLD SPRINGS BRIDGE Interpretive Sign – 17 The 208-foot former railroad bridge south of Ketchum is Howard BELLEVUE one of the country’s last remaining engineering legacies Preserve developed and patented by George Pegram. There are MILE 20 only ten of these bridges surviving in the United States,

seven of which are located in Idaho. The 217-foot Gimlet G A Pegram Bridge can be seen from the Anderson Bridge N N E just south of East Fork. T T

R D 9 IDAHO BASQUES Interpretive Sign – The largest population of Basques outside their native Pyrenees in Spain is located in Idaho and, in the early 1900s, they herded sheep along the stock driveway, which runs above the Wood River Trail by the hospital. Basque food and culture are now part of the valley, ©2016 E.B. Phillips for BCRD. celebrated in annual festivals.

10 COLD SPRINGS RANCH Interpretive Sign – Near the end of the mining era, the first bands of sheep from the Snake River Basin were trailed along this route through the Wood River Valley over Galena Summit to summer pastures in the Sawtooth Valley and Stanley www.bcrd.org Basin. Herders passed through here on what once was 208.578.BCRD (208.578.2273) 1050 Fox Acres Road the Cold Springs Ranch. Portions of this well-worn trail, Printed on 30% Post Consumer

still used today, can be seen on the hillside to the west. Khalsa Dev by Photos Hailey, Idaho and Green Seal Certified paper