SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS

The Sawtooth Mountains are one of America's unknown and less-trammeled treasures. Our journey will take us into the 754,000-acre Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) and its centerpiece, the 217,000-acre Sawtooth Wilderness, which was one of the first landscapes designated under the Wilderness Act of 1964. This awe-inspiring landscape encompasses hundreds of jagged peaks (more than 40 over 10,000’), tranquil basins, 750 miles of trails, 100 miles of streams, and more than 300 alpine lakes.

One of the best things about the Sawtooth Wilderness is invisible – it boasts the clearest air in the continental United States!

The glacially carved Sawtooth Mountains and Sawtooth Valley provide habitat for abundant wildlife including Pronghorn Antelope, Beaver, deer, elk, Black Bear, many birds, mountain goats, moose, and wolves.

On this trip, you will enjoy an incredible week of hiking and naturalist interpretation in the Sawtooth and White Cloud Mountains with many opportunities to be entranced by exceptional vistas, abundant wildlife, and a myriad of wildflowers. In addition, raft the Salmon River, drive Idaho’s Scenic Byways and explore the geologically fascinating Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, all the while absorbing all that this truly special, wild ecosystem has to offer.

Each evening we return to our accommodations on the banks of the Salmon River, in the “Old West” town of Lower Stanley, situated in the scenic Sawtooth Valley with the Sawtooth Mountains rising to the west and the White Cloud Mountains to the east. No place like this exists anywhere else in the lower 48 states.