Idaho is one of America’s most rural states with 83,000 square miles of land. Of that, 40% or 7 million acres are heavily covered with trees, making Idaho the most heavily forested of the Rocky Mountain States.

Few places in America, and nowhere outside of Alaska, provide a Wilderness experience to match the sheer magnitude of the Frank Church Wilderness of No Return, the second largest unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System in the Lower 48 (second in size only to California's Death Valley Wilderness).

Idaho has more than 2,000 lakes, 239,000 acres of reservoirs and 16,000 miles of streams.

Idaho boasts the deepest river gorge in North America and a waterfall taller than Niagara Falls.

With over 3,100 whitewater river miles, Idaho lays claim to being the whitewater capital of the world.

Idaho has the oldest ski resort in the U.S. – Sun Valley 1936 – and the newest at Tamarack Resort 2004. And Brundage Mountain in McCall has Idaho’s largest cat skiing terrain with 2,000 acres of backcountry terrain.

Over a dozen magazines have put Boise on their “best cities” list. In fact Forbes in April 2007 ranked Boise as the #3 best metropolitan area to do business or start a career. With a population of just under 200,000 and growing Boise’s economic climate is one of the healthiest in the nation.