Recreation Sites & Activities

The Four Rivers Field Office is the backyard of Idaho’s largest city, offering easy access to out-of-town, unspoiled places.

At Bonneville Point, stand in the same spot where Captain Bonneville overlooked the valley he named Les Bois.  Explore high desert flora and discover the 12,000-year-old rock-face petroglyphs made by Native Americans and early settlers at Celebration Park.  Seven miles up Eighth Street from Boise’s North End, the Hulls Gulch National Recreation Trail offers a quiet escape from the city below and a chance to learn about the unique natural history of the Boise Foothills. Original wagonwheel ruts are visible on two segments of the primary Oregon Trail route in southwestern Idaho, North Trail and Sinker Creek.  To experience beautiful scenery and solitude, jump in your car, float a stretch of river, or explore on foot. 

Falcons, eagles, hawks, and owls in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area comprise one of the world's densest concentrations of nesting raptors. The NCA is nature in the rough, but the birds and their environment reward those who meet the area on its own terms with the patience to fit into the natural rhythm of life here. 

The rivers that give the field office its name and two reservoirs in the area offer kayaking, canoeing, rafting and fishing adventures, motorized boating at designated locations, and swimming, picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, and camping on banks and shorelines.