James Wilkins was among the first wagon travelers, 1849, to fix the name City of Rocks to what looked like "a dismantled, rock-built city of the Stone Age." California Trail pioneers were leaving civilization as they knew it in the East for new lives in t

Clearwater River and Pink House Recreation Site

Cottonwood Recreation Site

Craters of the Moon National Monument

Craters Of The Moon National Monument and Preserve

The Craters of the Moon lava field spreads across 618 square miles and is the largest young basaltic lava field in the lower 48 states. The Monument and Preserve contain more than 25 volcanic cones including outstanding examples of spatter cones. Sixty di

Craters of the Moon National Wilderness Area

Deadwood Reservoir

Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge

Dworshak Reservoir

Fish Creek Reservoir

Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness

Gooding City of Rocks

Gospel-Hump Wilderness

Grassy Lake

Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Great Rift Backcountry Area

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

The Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world's richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago.

Hawkins Reservoir Campground

Hell's Half Acre Lava Flow

Island Park Reservoir

Jimmy Smith Lake Trailhead

Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge

Little Jacks Creek Wilderness

Little Wood River Reservoir

Lower Salmon River

Lucky Peak Lake

Mackay Reservoir Recreation Site

Magic Reservoir

Mann Creek Reservoir

Minidoka Internment National Monument

Minidoka Internment National Monument was established to commemorate the hardships and sacrifices of Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. Also known as the 'Hunt Camp', the Minidoka Relocation Center was a 33,000-acre site with over 600

Minidoka National Historic Site

Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge

Montour Wildlife/Recreation Management Area

Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area

Nez Perce National Historical Park

The 38 sites of Nez Perce National Historical Park are scattered across the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana. It has been designated to commemorate the stories and history of the Nimiipuu and their interaction with explorers, fur traders, m

Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests

North Fork Owyhee Wilderness

Owyhee River Wilderness

Owyhee Uplands Backcountry Byway

Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production Area

Palisades Reservoir

Payette National Forest

Payette River

Pole Creek Wilderness

Reservoir A

Ririe Reservoir

Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir

Salmon-Challis National Forest

Sawtooth National Forest

Sawtooth Wilderness

Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness

Soldiers Meadow Reservoir

St. Anthony Sand Dunes

Steck Park

Thief Valley Dam and Reservoir

Thorn Creek Reservoir

Warm Springs Reservoir

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Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.

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