Harriman State Park - Idaho

Address:3489 E. Highway 20
Ashton, Idaho

Home to America's largest waterfowl, Harriman State Park has over 20 miles of trails that are perfect for hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing. The Park was once owned by Union Pacific Railroad investors (from 1902 to 1977) and formerly served as a cattle ranch and private retreat. Today, visitors are welcome to fish and take in the amazing wildflower displays in the sage meadows and pastureland. The Teton Mountains are in full view here, as are the elk, deer, and moose who call Harriman home. Guests are invited to stay over in a cabin or yurt, or camp out and enjoy historic tours and the fabulous guided walks here at Idaho's Harriman State Park.

Welcome to the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, the "Amazon of North America." The Fakahatchee Strand is a linear swamp forest, approximately twenty miles long by five miles wide and oriented from north to south. It has been sculpted by the movement of water for thousands of years and clean fresh water is the key to its existence. Beneath a protective canopy of bald cypress trees flows a slow moving, shallow river or slough that is warmer than the ambient temperature in the winter and cooler in the summer. The buffering effect of the slough and the deeper lakes that punctuate it shield the forest interior from extreme cold temperatures and this fosters a high level of rare and endangered tropical plant species.