With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama added wilderness protection Friday to more than a quarter-million acres in Idaho. He signed the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak ...

On a recent backpacking trip to Sawtooth Lake, a friend and I encountered dozens of other hikers, several other backpackers and a couple of trail runners. When we got to Sawtooth Lake right around ...

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Fast Fact: Sawtooth Wilderness, according to the EPA, has some of the cleanest air in the lower 48 states. The Sawtooth Wilderness is a world of jagged peaks—hundreds of them, with 50 measuring over ...

BOISE, Idaho – About 20 backcountry campers in the Sawtooth Wilderness had to be evacuated because of a central Idaho wildfire that several hundred firefighters are trying to snuff out before it gets ...

STANLEY, Idaho — The Bench Lake Fire continues to burn in the Sawtooth wilderness near Stanley. As of Thursday evening, it had burned 2,037 acres and was 8% contained. Firefighters are set up at an ...

My son and I arrived at the turn for Alpine Lake high in the Sawtooth Wilderness at the same time as a couple. We all debated: Take the short, downhill walk to Alpine Lake now, or do it on the way ...

STANLEY • Happy anniversary, wilderness! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act by taking a hike in a wilderness area, naturally. An easy place to start is the Sawtooth Wilderness near ...

Nothing quite beats the feeling of waking up to a calm, quiet, high-mountain lake, like this scene at dawn on a trip in 2021 to Sawtooth Lake in the Sawtooth Wilderness in the Sawtooth National ...