Salmon River Road

Today John and I will be driving along the Salmon River leaving from North Fork, Idaho and following the river until it enters the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. It will be about a 45 mile drive with about 27 miles on gravel. Join us as we travel along into the Salmon River Canyon. We've spotted an eagle nest over here in this section of the river. Looks like mom is taking care of a little one while dad sits nearby looking for some more food. Looking across the river to the green slopes we see a small herd of elk. This country had a huge wildfire last year. Just burned off thousands and thousands of acres in here. I don't know if they show up in the GoPro but there's a small herd of elk right straight ahead. Well we've reached the end of the pavement. Now we probably have I'm guessing 25 to well maybe 20 or 25 miles of dirt road before we get to the end. We're now at the area that used to be the small community of Shoop right on the river. The Shoop store. Several years ago this store was still open and people could buy gas pumped out of these two old gas pumps. Just saw a sign back there said it's 27 miles to Corn Creek. So I guess that means it's actually about a 30 miles of dirt road here. One way. Go in and back out. These people have a trolley I guess to get across the river. This is the middle park of the Salmon joining the main stream of the Salmon River. We heard a bird call that sounded like a pheasant and looked up on a rock and here was this chukar partridge that flew down to get a Service has an office here and there's a Corn Creek campground here. You can also take a jet boat ride from here into the wilderness. The Salmon River is also known as the river of no return because in the early days boats could navigate down the river but could not get back up through the fast water and the large rapids. One of the side streams flowing into the Salmon River. Time to start our journey out of this canyon. Back that 45 miles that we came in. It's been an enjoyable day. We hope you've enjoyed the ride along with us.