Being an educator means also trying out cool things in the summers which will benefit your students in the fall when you return to tell the stories of what YOU did over the summer, while most of the students are trying to remember if there even was anything that summer. For me, this summer meant a short trip to Shoshone Falls, Idaho and one of the most breath taking views I have photographed.
We always talk about the heartiness of the folks who traveled the trail and who made their way to Oregon Territory but the falls and the sheer power of the water coming over them makes you appreciate in no uncertain terms what the people were up against, just to make it to Oregon.
The falls themselves are more than 200 feet high and the volume of water early in the summer over the falls makes the spray from them reach clear across the pool below all the way to the park more than 400 yards away. Later in the summer, the volume dissapates to a mere trickle in some places but it is none the less awesome in scope.
Shoshone Falls Park is a wonderful place to just go and appreciate the beauty of the land. If the road down is not rough enough for you, then the hiking trails will provide you plenty of “roughing it” to take in and appreciate the place even more.
The $5 entry fee for the Shoshone Falls Park is well worth the entry and this fee is charged each day from March 1st until the end of September. This is just one of the landmarks that we say, if you haven’t seen it yet, then you definitely should! Season passes are $25 and you can check out the current conditions online at the Shoshone Falls website at:
https://www.tfid.org/309/Shoshone-Falls
