Ride to Stanley, Idaho

Today we took a ride on two scenic by ways out to Stanley Idaho. Stanley Idaho is located in the sawtooth mountains. Population 117. The first scenic byway was peaks to craters on US 93 disconnects craters of the moon national monument to the mountains. Along the way we passed the McKay Reservoir. We also passed many mountains with lots of snow on the peaks. This part of the ride was pretty straight not very many twisties.

We turned onto Utah 75 and followed the salmon River by way over to Stanley Idaho. This was the best part of the ride lots of twisties. The snow cap mountains were gorgeous. In this area, we saw the sawtooth mountains, which had a lot more snow on them.

Once we made it to Stanley, we turned down a little side road to get to redfish Lake Lodge. They had an outdoor grill and we could sit on some picnic tables by their little beach and watch the water with the mountains in the background. The water was crystal clear and almost a turquoise kind of color that was just beautiful. On this portion of the ride, we also saw a ton of big eagle nests I think they were Osprey nest since we were close to the water and the river the whole time it was pretty neat. This was probably one of our longest rides at 287 miles.Read more