One Day, Four Scenic Roads

Today’s travels daisy-chained four Scenic Byways together. First, we finished the Sawtooth Scenic Byway at Stanley. Once we turned south from Stanley, we were on the Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway. Not a huge amount of ponderosa pine, but that may have been the beetle, or the Lowman Fire in the 1990s.

Once we hit Lowman we headed east on the Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway. We didn’t see any animals, really, but it was lovely, along a deep gorge for much of the way, and past a former CCC camp.

At Banks we headed north on the Payette Scenic Byway, alongside fantastically rushing waters. Absolutely jaw dropping, but hard by a busy road. Kind of an unsettling combination.