Idaho Travel
Geographers cannot seem to agree on whether to call Idaho part of the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain West, or the Intermountain West — not surprising, since a topographical map of the state looks something like a crazy quilt patched together with odd pieces of mountain and prairie, desert and lakeland, forest and plain.
First part of Oregon Country, then Washington Territory, present-day Idaho — home to only about a million people — is what was left over when Montana was eventually shorn away. But if Idaho is a scrap, it is a gloriously scenic one, from its 45-mile-wide panhandle on the Canadian border to its mountainous wilderness areas and vast plains farther south. Cobbled in along the way are rolling prairies, snowy peaks, and sage-covered flatlands.
