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<\/a><\/br>Shoshone Falls<\/p><\/div>\n
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With more than 8 hours of daylight from my flight touchdown to sunset, I thought in addition to driving from Boise to Hailey there could be more activities for my first afternoon in Idaho. There were a few hiking trails near the city of Boise, but I thought after a long flight from East coast, watching waterfalls was a more relaxing way to fill the day with activities (another advantage being that western flow of Snake River meant the waterfalls would be facing afternoon sun, ideal for photography). The city of Boise left me all but good impressions the moment I stepped out of its airport: pleasant temperature with breeze, bright sunshine from cloudless skies. Above all, just like the weather, the people seemed buoyant and uplifting. After getting onto the Lyft to downtown rental car store (so that I didn’t have to pay exorbitant airport surcharges), the gentleman driver greeted me with a professional tone to “take me there as safely and quickly as possible”. The youngling at rental store admired my “beautiful” Maryland license and compared it to his “dull and boring” Idaho one, and wished me good luck on my conquest of Mt. Borah while providing suggestions on other hiking trails nearby. These made me a nice and refreshing start of my trip despite weariness from hours of flying.<\/p>\n The tourism promotion website seemed to have two spots marked along Malad River, one was “Malad River Gorge Dam”, and the other was “Malad Gorge Walking Bridge”, I visited the former spot first.<\/p>\n The Gorge Dam was located 0.6mi from US30 through an unpaved road. Besides a few office buildings, there didn\u2019t seem to be any recreational facility, and the following ripples were all the scenery it could offer.<\/p>\n But since it was located in a straight gorge, I could launch my drone without worrying about signal blockage, and took an aerial tour of it.<\/p>\n <\/br>Spillage<\/br>I wasn\u2019t too sure why this aqueduct would spill over back to the river.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n After that, I drove to Malad Gorge Walking Bridge. The bridge was located right alongside Interstate 84, but the nearest exit was 0.8mi away. It’s technically part of Thousand Springs State Park, so there’s a 5-dollar per vehicle entrance fee, honor system in place.<\/p>\n To the West of walking bridge, Malad River wound its way in some magnificent gorges.<\/p>\n <\/br>Malad River Gorge<\/p><\/div>\n
\nBefore my visit, the only waterfall in the region that I knew was Shoshone Falls, dubbed “Niagara of the West” (spoiler: it’s not nearly as impressive). Then I came across the region’s tourism website (visitsouthidaho.com\/waterfalls\/<\/a>), and found out there were a lot<\/i> of waterfalls in the region. So I picked a few along the way and packed my afternoon itinerary.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Highway and Country Road<\/br>As I drove towards Malad River Gorge Dam.<\/p><\/div>\nMalad River<\/span><\/h3>\n
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