Idaho
219 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Frank Church and the River of No Return
- Lewis and Clark Cross the Bitterroots
- Potatoes, Irrigation, and the Making of the Snake River Plain
- Silver, Gold, and the Coeur d'Alene Mining Wars
- Sun Valley, A Resort in the Sagebrush
- The Land Before the State
- The Mormon Corridor, Southeast Idaho's Quiet Kingdom
- The Nez Perce War, Flight of Eighteen Seventy-Seven
- The Nimiipuu, People of the Land
- The Oregon Trail, Ruts Across the Snake River Plain
- The Shoshone-Bannock and the Snake River Plain
- The Snake River, the Dams, and the Salmon
Near Boise
- Boise Airport: From WPA Runway to B-17 Training Field
- Boise Chinatown: Chinden, the Anti-Chinese Convention, and Who Built This City
- Julia Davis Park: A Husband's Promise, a City's Heart
- Julius M. Kleiner and a Silicon Valley Gift
- Meridian: From Dairy Town to Idaho's Fastest City
- Micron Technology: A Chip Company Born in a Dental Office Basement
- Minidoka: Idaho's Wartime Incarceration Camp
- Nampa, Idaho: Railroad Town on the High Desert
- Oregon Trail Crossing, Boise Valley
- Sally Reed and Reed versus Reed
- Snake River Birds of Prey: The Richest Raptor Canyon on Earth
- Table Rock: Sacred Ground, Building Stone, City Landmark
- The Basque Block: Sheepherders, Boarding Houses, and the Oldest Language in Europe
- The Basque Boarding House Women: The Unnamed Architecture of Community
- The Boise B on Table Rock
- The Boise Basin Gold Rush: The Largest Strike Since California
- The Boise Basque Block: The Largest Community Outside Spain
- The Boise Depot: Spanish Towers and a Hundred-Year Wait for the Mainline
- The Egyptian Theatre: King Tut's Tomb Comes to Grove Street
- The First Geothermal City: America's Original Hot Water District
- The Haywood Trial: Clarence Darrow, Big Bill, and the Trial of the Century
- The Idaho State Capitol: Geothermal Heat and Georgia Marble
- The Old Idaho Penitentiary: A Hundred Years of Hard Time
- The Oregon Trail Reserve: Where the Ruts Are Still There
- The Shoshone and the Boise Valley: Arrival, Removal, Return
- Warm Springs Avenue: The Street That Ran on Hot Water
- Where the City Began: Fort Boise and the July Fourth Founding
- Wildland Firefighters Monument: Fourteen Crosses on Storm King
- Wildland Firefighters National Monument
Near Driggs
Near Ketchum
- From Woolly City to Ski Town: Ketchum's Long Transformation
- Hailey, Bellevue, and the Boom Towns of the Wood River Valley
- Hemingway's Last Chapter: Ketchum, 1959 to 1961
- Ketchum and the Wood River Valley: Miners, Sheepherders, and Movie Stars
- Leadville, Renamed: The Trapper Who Gave His Name to a Town
- The Philadelphia Smelter: Silver, Lead, and Some of the First Electric Lights in Idaho
- Woolly City: Ketchum as the Largest Sheep-Shipping Center in the West
Near Mccall
- McCall Winter Carnival: A Hundred Years on the Snow
- McCall: Payette Lake's Logging Town Turned Mountain Resort
- New Meadows: Junction of Two High Desert Valleys
- Shore Lodge, Ponderosa Pines, and McCall's Second Life
- The McCall Smokejumper Base: Parachuting Into Wilderness Fire
- The Sheepeaters and the Nez Perce of the Payette Valley
- Thomas McCall and the Town He Built from a Horse Trade
Near Sandpoint
- Bonner County: How a Railroad Stop Became the Seat of Its Own County
- Farragut: Two Hundred Ninety-Three Thousand Sailors Come to Idaho
- Kootenai, Idaho: Mud Slough to Railroad Stop
- Priest River: The Last Log Drive
- Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille: The Deepest Lake You've Never Heard Of
- Sandpoint: Lumber Town on the Deepest Lake
- Sandpoint: Where the Selkirks Come Down to the Water
- Schweitzer: The Swiss Hermit's Mountain Becomes a Ski Resort
- The Festival at Sandpoint: Classical Music in a Town of Five Thousand
- The Kalispel People and David Thompson's Trading Post
Near Sun Valley
- Sun Valley 1936: The Railroad That Invented American Skiing
- Sun Valley Serenade: The Film That Sold the Mountain to America
- Sun Valley: Bald Mountain, Dollar Mountain, and the Village That Harriman Built
- The Austrian Who Found Sun Valley
- The Celebrities Who Made Sun Valley Famous
- The Chairlift Was Invented for Bananas
- The War in the Lodge: When Sun Valley Became a Navy Hospital
Near Twin Falls
- College of Southern Idaho and Refugee Resettlement
- Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Jump
- Evel Knievel's Snake River Jump, 1974
- Herrett Center for Arts and Science
- Ira Perrine and the Twin Falls Townsite
- Jerome: The Carey Act Colony
- Milner Dam
- Rock Creek Stage Station
- Shoshone Falls
- Shoshone Falls: The Niagara of the West
- Shoshone Falls: The Niagara of the West
- Snake River Canyon
- The Carey Act and the Magic Valley
- The Idaho Potato: An Irrigation Empire Hidden in Plain Sight
- The Perrine Bridge and BASE Jumping
- The Shoshone-Bannock and the Oregon Trail
- Twin Falls: Canyon Country
Along the way
- Arco, Idaho: The World's First Nuclear-Powered Town
- Arco: The First Town Lit by Nuclear Power
- Aryan Nations: The Compound, the Keenans, and the Lawsuit That Ended It
- Battle of Cottonwood: Buying Time for the Families
- Bear Lake Pioneer Country
- Bear River Massacre Site
- Boise Basin Gold Rush: The Strike That Built a Capital
- Bonners Ferry: Born of a Gold Rush and a Wide River
- Bonners Ferry: The Crossing That Stuck
- Bonneville County and Eastern Idaho's Growth
- Bunker Hill: Lead in the Children's Blood
- Burke Canyon: The Silver Town Where the Hotel Swallowed the Railroad
- Burley and the Minidoka Project: Water That Made a Desert Bloom
- BYU-Idaho: From Frontier Academy to Flood Relief to University
- C. A. Bottolfsen, Idaho's Comeback Governor
- C. C. Van Arsdol and the Lewiston Grade
- Caldwell, Idaho
- Caldwell: Railroad Town at the Edge of the Desert
- Camas Meadows Battle Site
- Cataldo Mission: Idaho's Oldest Building
- Challis: Supply Depot of the Salmon River Mines
- Coeur d'Alene Casino: Tribal Sovereignty on the Highway
- Coeur d'Alene: Heart of the Awl, Heart of the Silver Country
- College of Idaho
- College of Idaho: Idaho's First Private College
- Cottonwood, Idaho: Stagecoach Stop and Nez Perce Ground
- Council, Idaho: The Weiser River Valley's County Seat
- Craters of the Moon
- Craters of the Moon: Idaho's Lava Sea, Where Astronauts Trained for the Moon
- Eagle Rock Ferry and the Railroad Bridge
- EBR-I: The Four Lightbulbs That Started the Atomic Age
- EBR-One: The Light That Changed Everything
- EBR-One: Where Nuclear Power Lit a Light Bulb
- Ed Pulaski and the Fire That Changed Everything
- Emile Grandjean: The Danish Forester of the Sawtooths
- Fort Henry, First American Post West of the Divide
- Fort Lapwai and the Nez Perce
- Fort Lapwai and the Nez Perce Reckoning
- Founding of Shelley
- Frank Church Wilderness: The Largest Roadless Land in the Lower Forty-Eight
- Frank Church: The Senator Who Saved the River and Exposed the CIA
- Fruitland: The Big Apple of Idaho
- Genesee, Idaho: Palouse Wheat Town
- Glenns Ferry: The Most Dangerous Crossing
- Grangeville: Gateway to the Nez Perce War
- Hagerman Fossil Beds
- Hayden Lake: Where the Aryan Nations Lost
- Heyburn: Born From Federal Water
- Homedale, Idaho: Named from a Hat
- Huetter, Idaho: Idaho's Smallest City
- Idaho Falls and the Reactor Nobody Sees From the Highway
- Idaho State University: Born from a Legislative Gamble
- Idaho State University: From Academy to Bengals
- Kellogg: The Jackass That Founded a Town, and the Smelter That Poisoned It
- Lewis and Clark and a Guide Named Toby
- Lewiston: Idaho's First City and Stolen Capital
- Lewiston: Ragtown to First Capital
- Mackay: Copper Town in the Lost River Valley
- Malad City: Wales in Idaho
- Marsing, Idaho: The Town the Railroad Called Erb
- Massacre Rocks and the Bear River Massacre: The Story That Goes Deeper
- Mesa Falls and the Henrys Fork: The Fly Fisherman's Cathedral
- Mormon Settlement and the Renaming to Idaho Falls
- Mountain Home: Desert Air Base on the High Plain
- Museum of Idaho
- Nez Perce 1877: The Flight That Passed Through This Corridor
- Nyssa: Sugar Beets and a Wartime Labor Camp
- Palisades Dam
- Pat Hollow Crash Site
- Payette: A Fur Trapper's Name on the Map
- Plummer: Heart of the Coeur d'Alene Reservation
- Potatoes and the Upper Snake River Plain
- Potlatch, Idaho: The Lumber Company Town
- Red Rock Pass and the Bonneville Flood
- Redfish Lake: The Sockeye That Should Not Exist
- Riggins: From Gouge Eye to Whitewater Capital
- Sacajawea: The Biography the Monuments Buried
- Salmon: Near the Birthplace of Sacagawea
- Sawtooth National Recreation Area: The Wilderness That Almost Became a Mine
- Schitsu'umsh: The Lake They Won Back in Court
- Shoshone-Bannock Homeland and the Snake River
- Shoshone: Cold Beer on the Lava Plain
- SL-One: America's Only Fatal Reactor Accident
- Smelterville, Idaho
- Spencer, Idaho: Opal Capital of America
- Spokane to Coeur d'Alene: The Inland Northwest Corridor
- Stephen Ambrose and Lolo Pass
- Tautphaus Park and Civic Idaho Falls
- The Atomic City Corridor
- The Bannock War of 1878: The Last Resistance on the Snake River Plain
- The Bunker Hill Superfund: Twenty-One Square Miles of America's Largest Industrial Cleanup
- The Church Committee: How an Idaho Senator Exposed the CIA's Assassination Plots
- The Coeur d'Alene Tribe and the Superfund Lake
- The College of Idaho: A Missionary's Wager on the Boise Valley
- The First Flag West of the Divide
- The Flight of the Nez Perce: Eleven Hundred Miles Toward Canada
- The Idaho Falls L D S Hospital and Nursing School
- The Idaho Falls Temple
- The Idaho Potato Museum
- The K27 Memorial
- The Lemhi Shoshone Exile: Sacajawea's People, Expelled from Her Homeland
- The Lolo Trail: The Road That Nearly Killed the Corps of Discovery
- The Loon Lake B Twenty-Three Crash
- The Menan Buttes
- The Miners of Silver Valley
- The Nez Perce Flight: One Thousand One Hundred Seventy Miles
- The Pioneer Fire of 2016
- The Second Bank of Montpelier
- The SL-1 Reactor: America's Only Fatal Nuclear Accident
- The SL-One Reactor Accident
- The Snake River and the Falls
- The Steamboat Era on Lake Coeur d'Alene
- The Sunshine Mine Fire: The Worst Day in Hard-Rock Mining
- The Sunshine Mine: Ninety-One Men Who Did Not Come Home
- The Teton Dam Disaster of 1976
- Thousand Springs: The Lost Rivers Come Home
- University of Idaho: Born Before the State
- Wallace: Silver Capital of the World
- Weiser: Fiddling Capital of the World
- White Bird Canyon: The Shot That Started a War
- White Bird: Where the Nez Perce War Began
- Wilder, Idaho: Named by a Magazine Editor