Outdoors & River

Trails, river conditions, parks, foothills, weather-adjacent recreation, and getting outside.

Outdoors & River/June 15, 2026

Eagle Bike Park Looks Even Better From 400 Feet Up

Drone footage captures Eagle Bike Park’s trail network, jump lines, and pump track from the air.

Outdoors & River/June 5, 2026

This Freshwater Swimming Hole Two Hours from Boise Runs Turquoise Year-Round

Box Canyon Springs offers a waterfall-lined canyon hike that ends in a swim through spring-fed turquoise water—worth packing snacks and watching your step for stinging nettle.

Outdoors & River/June 3, 2026

Hidden Springs Has a 1.8-Mile Wildflower Loop—and a Waterfall Nobody Can Quite Find

The Currant Creek Trail in Hidden Springs is an easy sunset-friendly loop with spring wildflowers and a seasonal waterfall that may or may not show up.

Outdoors & River/June 1, 2026

Cervidae Peak Packs 2,000 Feet of Climb Into 2.3 Brutal Miles

Seventeen miles from downtown Boise, Cervidae Peak offers a no-switchback, nearly 2,000-foot ascent that’s one of four local summits serious hikers call the Foothills Grand Slam.

Outdoors & River/May 23, 2026

Table Rock Was a Quarry, a Compass Point, and a Cross Before It Was a Hike

The sandstone mesa above Boise’s east side has functioned as a navigation landmark, a building-stone source, and a site of religious significance long before it became the city’s favorite Sunday-morning scramble.

Outdoors & River/May 18, 2026

The Park Named for Someone Who Never Got to See It

Julia Davis Park traces back to a single family donation made in memory of a woman whose name now anchors Boise’s riverfront.

Outdoors & River/May 15, 2026

Before the Trail Maps, Hulls Gulch Was Just the Edge of Town

The foothills north of Boise weren’t always a destination—they were a boundary, a watershed, and a working margin before they became anyone’s morning run.

Outdoors & River/May 12, 2026

The Boise River Did a Lot of Work Before Anyone Thought to Float It

Long before inner tubes and the Greenbelt, the Boise River was the city’s original heavy lifter—moving water, generating power, and occasionally flooding everything in sight.

Outdoors & River/May 11, 2026

The Trails Behind Table Rock Were Once a Lifeline for Oregon Trail Pioneers

Boise's Military Reserve trail system sits on land that sheltered exhausted pioneers long before it became a favorite lunchtime hike.