Key Landmarks & Attractions

  • City of Clayton

    The City of Clayton is a small community located in a narrow mountain canyon drained by Kinnikinic Creek.

  • City of Salmon

    Salmon is the largest city on the byway and sits in a grand valley surrounded by mountain peaks.

  • Craters of the Moon National Monument

    Visit the landscape of the moon without leaving the earth. Located just west of Idaho Falls, on the edge of YTT

  • Ernest Hemingway Memorial

    The memorial is just a few miles up Sun Valley Road from downtown Ketchum, Idaho.

  • Galena Summit

    Galena Overlook offers views of the glacially carved Sawtooth Mountains and Sawtooth Valley.

  • Historic Challis

    Historic Challis was established in 1875 as a stop-over and freight drop, before a road was built into the newly discovered mines in the Yankee Fork Mining District.

  • Land of the Yankee Fork Interpretive Center

    The Land of the Yankee Fork Interpretive Center commemorates Idaho’s frontier mining history.

  • Redfish Lake

    The 10,000-foot Mount Heyburn and lovely Grand Mogul peaks beautifully frame Redfish Lake, serving as a gateway to the Sawtooth Wilderness.

  • Shoshone Ice Caves

    Among the many fascinating geologic formations found in this southern section of the byway are the Shoshone Ice Caves.

  • Stanley Museum

    The Stanley Museum—at one time a ranger station—is owned by the Sawtooth NRA and operated by the Sawtooth Interpretive and Historical Association.

  • Sunbeam Hot Springs & Sunbeam Dam Interpretive Site

    A pullout on the river side of SH-75 leads to a stone stairway and bathhouse built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1937.

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