Landscape

"The Sawtooth National Forest has two very different landscapes. Along Idaho's southern boundary with Utah and Nevada, the Forest is composed of gentle mountains rising up from rolling landscape. In the heart of Idaho, the second portion of the Sawtooth, sometimes called the "Swiss Alps of Idaho," is dominated by the Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA). Here visitors find a land of glacier carved valleys, more than 967 miles of cold rushing streams, a thousand gem-like lakes, lush mountain meadows, and jagged peaked mountains. This is the land seen in advertisements for snowmobiles to bottled water. But the photographs simply do not do it justice. A brief trip to Sawtooth National Forest has most visitors planning a longer stay - soon." -USFS 2014 (www.forestcamping.com)