Shoshone Falls Idaho

This guide to Shoshone Falls is not a typical tourist guide as I am not a travel writer, I don’t work for a travel agency I am just a simple tourist and this article is written from a real tourists’ perspective. What you read is our own personal experience as tourists who were actually visiting Shoshone Falls and hopefully you will get a more realistic idea of what is on offer than that which is from the some blurb written by someone with a vested interest. I hope the photos will also give a proper taste of what is actually there.

Like a lot of places that we visit on our holidays Shoshone Falls was not a pre planned place for us to visit it was sign posted on our route to Boise where we were heading to visit a friend ahh sweet serendipity. We saw the sign post and thought that it looked interesting and we made our way there and when you see the photographs I think that you will agree that it was well worth the detour.

As the sign on the first photograph says welcome to Shoshone Falls or rather to our visit to Shoshone Falls. The noise from the water crashing 212 feet down over the falls is absolutely deafening I wish I had recorded the sound for you. There is a fine spray that is thrown up as the water crashes onto the rocks below which if the sun is shining often produces rainbows and at least one of our photos has such a rainbow in it.

Shoshone Falls is often referred to as the Niagara Falls of the West at 212 feet Shoshone has in fact a drop of around thirty foot more than that of Niagara Falls. The falls are named after the Shoshone Indian tribe that used to live in this region long before the white settlers came. Shoshone Falls is on the Snake River in Idaho not too far from the City of Twin Falls.

The weather on the day we visited was ideal and we came away with some beautiful photographs our visit was in March so we came upon the Falls at the best time of the year when the water levels are at the best. We are told that in July and August the water is diverted for agricultural use and the falls can be reduced almost to a trickle. This must be very disappointing if you travelled to see the falls and all you got was a trickle.

I am now just going to share the rest of the photos and I am going to let them speak for themselves as I think that they are far more eloquent than I am.

Up above the falls we met a lady fishing in the crystal clear water and we were fortunate enough to see her catch a fish which I think was a Rainbow Trout.  She let us take a photo of her and the fish which she was going to take home and have grilled with fixings for her dinner. There is nothing quite like eating fish that has been freshly caught especially when it is you that has caught it.

I would like to have included a photo of what the locals call Rock Chucks (Marmots) we saw them all over the place but when we tried to get a photography they seemed to melt away faster than snow on a hot griddle (that is my attempt at saying it like an American I think I had better stick to plain old English). As I was saying they kept disappearing before we could get a photo so the next best thing is a photograph of Sue trying to get a photo of the little critters.

Thanks for visiting and I hope that you have enjoyed this little tourist’s visit to Shoshone Falls and now you know that there is more to Idaho than just potatoes.

Take some time out and see some of the other places I have travelled to. My travelling is not just limited to the USA there are Hubs on places in Europe also.

If you have never been to Spain then check out the Guadalest and Villajoyosa hubs you will be in for a real treat and the photographs give you a real taste of Spain.

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