American Falls, Idaho- I am absolutely going to buy a canoe

We spent a week parked at the American Falls Dam and I was wishing again that we had, had the foresight to invest in some kind of boat. It's the pits to be parked at the water and spend time watching everyone else play around in their boats.

 

We did a lot of driving around in the jeep on the back roads.  We were mostly looking if there was anyplace better to park.  We found a couple of really nice sites, but there is no way we could have gotten the MH in to them.  Both places where on the banks of the Snake River, with lots of shade trees.

The reservoir was only at 19% capacity and looked as if it had been that way for quite some time.  We spent one day across the reservoir from where we were parked checking out the old town site location. In the 1920s they built the dam and had to move the entire town.  With the water so low we were able to see the foundation's of all the buildings they had moved. I think we read at the visitor center that they had to move somewhere close to fifty buildings.  Here is a picture of the grain silo that was left standing in place. Probably because it is 106 feet high and 40 feet under ground.

 

If you look closely you can see the lighter section at the bottom of the silo, that is usually under water.

Most days the wind would pick up in the afternoons and we would end the day with gray skies from all the smoke from the forest fires.  This trip has really made us aware of just how many forest fires there are during the summer months.  Although I did hear on the news that this year was particularly bad.  I can't think of even one state we have been to that there hasn't been forest fires.