Oliver's Visit - Part Three - Box Canyon...

Yesterday, we went to Box Canyon. Its a beautiful place that you have to walk about 1 1/2 miles from the road to where it starts. Its a natural spring that comes out from the canyon wall and underground that flows at 180,000 gallons per minute. In the last million or so years, in the water's 2 1/2 mile path to the Snake River, it has created a very large and deep canyon through the rock. Here are some pictures we took on the trip...

First, this picture is looking down from the start of the canyon. About 30 feet from what you can see in this picture, there is no canyon - just flat land.


Here is a waterfall that is in the middle of the canyon.

Further along, the water creates this beautiful clear lake.



Here is a picture of the next little canyon over that shows the Snake River and the fish hatchery on the other side that the Box Canyon water feeds. Also, you can see the steep road that we had to use to get out of the canyon.


Going in to the canyon, we had to climb down the canyon wall on a path. We then walked through the entire canyon, stopping at the lake to fly fish. Then, we walked over to the next canyon and walked out. Overall we walked about 6-7 miles, a lot of which was seriously up or down. Oliver loved it and we had big fun. But, I must say it was a little more 'fun' than I was expecting...