Playing in the snow is a natural for a winter Idaho vacation. With most of the state covered by mountain ranges and snow on the ground for months in many areas, snow activities are easy to find. Idaho boasts a number of premier ski areas, perhaps topped by legendary Sun Valley. Thousands of miles of snowmobile and cross-country ski trails are scattered throughout the state. Thousands of other areas exist for more informal areas to play in the snow.
Areas for tubing, sledding, and other methods of getting from hill tops to hill bottoms are found in countless locations in or near every community and in mountain and public land areas. Our latest excursion was to an unnamed area on Grimes Creek to tube and sled. To reach this area we headed up Hwy 21 towards Idaho City. At the Grimes Creek junction, we turned left to follow Grimes Creek about four miles to a nice open hill. In areas like this, one makes their own sliding runs depending on skill of the riders.
Our assortment of sliding instruments consisted of a tobagon, a snow tube, and a boogy board. All worked well on the approximately 20 inch deep snow. As the pictures show, how far or fast one slides is not as important as just being there.
Don't be overly concerned about having to have "just right" clothing especially for younger kids. A visit to a local thrift store finished outfitting our grandkids in very satisfactory, low cost, snow outfits.
Our Grimes Creek destination was less than 45 minutes from Boise. Our total trip was made in an aftrnoon and gave us all the snow time we wanted for the day. We passed several other areas closer to Boise that were being used by other families having a great day. Add this to your Idaho things to do list, you will be happy you did.
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