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Summer Break Day 3: To Salt Lake City

22 June 2023 • 732 km / 455 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 22 June 2023
  • Idaho 9 Utah 19

I took a not-quite-direct route from Boise to Salt Lake City. Not a lot of time for photos today, but I did get to explore some parts of Idaho I had not seen before.

A dry, grassy high-desert landscape under a clear deep-blue sky, with tawny hills and low basalt-capped ridges on the horizon. Tall green and golden grasses fill the foreground, where the long shadow of the photographer stretches across the ground.
Sun Valley Highway, northeast of Mountain Home, Idaho
Cattle graze on green pasture beside a calm reservoir, with sagebrush and a wire fence in the foreground and rolling grassy hills and distant snow-dusted mountains under a clear blue morning sky.
Sun Valley Highway, south of Dixie, Idaho
A rolling high-desert landscape of green sagebrush-covered hills dotted with rocky outcrops, with a highway winding through the valley and a range of mountains along the horizon under a clear blue sky.
Sun Valley Highway, south of Castle Rocks, Idaho
A wide expanse of green and golden prairie stretches toward a long snow-streaked mountain range under a clear deep-blue sky, with sagebrush in the foreground and a straight rural road crossing farmland below the peaks.
Camas Prairie Scenic Overlook, south of Fairfield, Idaho
A dirt two-track road curving gently to the right across a high desert plain of sagebrush and dry grass, with low basalt rimrock cliffs along the horizon under a clear deep-blue sky.
north of Gooding, Idaho
A vast, flat expanse of dry lakebed stretches to a low mountain range on the horizon, beneath a bright blue sky dominated by a large anvil-shaped cumulonimbus cloud lit by evening sun. Sparse buildings sit near the base of the hills at right.
The Great Saltair, west of Salt Lake City, Utah
A wide panoramic view of a vast, cracked salt flat stretching to a distant horizon, with low mountains and a large white cloud under a pale blue sky, and a strip of green grass along the lower right edge.
The Great Saltair, west of Salt Lake City, Utah
A calm body of water reflecting large white cumulus clouds and blue sky under a distant mountain range at dusk, with a rocky embankment and a yellow-and-black marker post along the shoreline near The Great Saltair west of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Great Saltair, west of Salt Lake City, Utah

Probably not much on the photoblog for the next couple days as I’ll be spending some important time with family. See you Sunday or early next week!

Boise, Idaho, to Salt Lake City, Utah · 732 km / 455 mi
(Mouse over or tap on the markers to see the photos there. Use the button to adjust the map’s position and zoom.)

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