Recreation

When Twin Falls native Nikki Daisher’s husband Miles, a well-known BASE jumper, decided to set a world record jumping off the Perrine Bridge in 2005, she recognized a valuable community service opportunity.

Flies are a welcome sight in Southern Idaho. No, not house flies. These are fishing flies, especially the ones used to catch brown trout and rainbow trout along Silver Creek.

When Debbie Dane, executive director of Southern Idaho Tourism, considers the City of Rocks National Reserve near Almo, here’s what she has to say: “It’s stately. I don’t know how else to describe it. I always wonder what the pioneers thought when they caught their first glimpse of the City of Rocks. They must have been just awe-struck.”

After a long day of rock climbing at the City of Rocks or hiking the trail above Shoshone Falls, tourists and locals alike love to enjoy another natural wonder of Southern Idaho: hot springs.

If you’ve ever crossed Twin Falls’ Perrine Bridge and thought you saw someone plunge off it into the Snake River Canyon below, it wasn’t your imagination.