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Star Valley Hiking and Backpacking
On the north side of Star Valley is hikers dream, for almost eighty miles you will find the Salt River and Wyoming Ranges running north to south making a for some great hiking on the south end of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Split by the beautiful Greys River they are the least-visited of the Yellowstone region’s mountains. Another hikers nirvana is the Snake River Range an exceptionally beautiful range that also abuts Alpine Wyoming. It runs from northwest to southeast encompassing an area between Victor Idaho, Swan Valley Idaho, Hoback Wyoming and Alpine Wyoming. It is bordered on the southwest by the Snake River and Palisades Reservoir. Teton Pass is the north border, in all reality, an extension of the Grand Tetons. Locals call this area the Palisades backcountry and many trailheads are popular with the weekend crowds out of Idaho Falls and Rexburg’s BYU. There are much greater limits on motorized travel here and part of it lies in the Palisades Wilderness Study Area. Large canyons stretch from southwest to northeast with large streams in the bottoms. Pine, Rainey, Palisades, Big Elk and Indian Creeks are the largest with many smaller ones mainly draining into the Snake River. The Webster Range on the west side of Star Valley has an elevation of 8,675 feet. Here is the Sage Creek Roadless area. The Caribou Range lies in Caribou County just west Star Valley. Caribou Peak is the highest mountain at 9,803 ft. Caribou City roadless area is one of three large roadless areas in the Caribou Range, which parallels the Idaho/Wyoming border. Stump Peak is the most southerly of the three roadless areas in the Caribou Range. Bear Creek roadless area is the most northerly of the three large Caribou Range roadless areas. Poker Peak roadless area is a much smaller roadless area than the three above; it is separated from the Bear Creek roadless area by a dirt road. These ranges have just about everything that the famous ranges to the north do but some things they don’t, solitude. But if you choose to hike with the crouds the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone aren’t too far away.
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