Waterfalls in Twin Falls

We left Nampa filled with rodeo memories - the Snake River Stampede is a winner in our book.  We had hoped for interesting scenery on our way to Twin Falls by avoiding the Interstate.  That worked in Northern Idaho with the mountains and rivers but Southern Idaho?  We thought the "loneliest highway in the world in Nevada" was boring last year...  

There were agricultural scenes between barren plains and some views of mesas and buttes straight out of 1950 western movies...but the haze ruined any chance of a photo.  We did see miles and miles of wind farms.

Arrived in Twin Falls and found our campground a bit better than the one in Nampa - still has quite a few "long stays" but amenities are better and the huge poplar tree at our spot is lovely.   We set up and went to view Shoshone Falls.  We were not prepared for the enormity of these falls.   They are in a canyon - the rocks look like they were being prepared for a giant's stone house: rectangular boulders stacked neatly everywhere along with blobs of stones that look to me like melted elephant legs.  There are places where time has washed down rubble and hollowed out huge amphitheater shapes. The falls are actually deeper than Niagara Falls and look to me like they were possibly wider before a hydroelectric dam was installed on one side in the early 1900s.

The above photos are from the entry road - there are several tiny waterfalls on the way in. 

Had to be sure to remember that Evel Knivel attempted to jump at the falls - unsuccessfully.  He was a ways down from the actual falls too.

We made our way to the Visitors Center after the falls and saw another marvel in the area: this one is manmade:  the Perrine Bridge.  It is a beautiful structure  and the Visitors Center has an overlook to get a grand view.

 

There is a statue of  Mr. Perrine and a brief bio near the overlook.

He was definitely a forward thinker.

Twin Falls has one more forward thinker whose name I cannot recall, but here is a photo of his gleaming factory.  

Twin Falls will be a Rest Stop - will stay three nights and then head towards Cheyenne.  Rest for me means sleeping late; for Roscoe it means three days of golf!