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Old red barn along Ruby Valley Road north of Ruby Lake NWR.

We drove along Clover Valley Road, a scenic alternative to 93, to Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The East Humboldt Range loomed ahead. Lots of farms and ranches in this valley.

We have driven the Doublespring Pass Road but must have missed this one. Next time. Thanks for the idea.

We camped the next night at Angel Creek Campground southwest of Wells, NV. Beautiful campground with views of Chimney Rock. Aspens had color.

Naf, Idaho near the Utah border. We were on our way to NE Utah to explore the Transcontinental RR that once passed through there. We took a few gravel and paved roads and drove on an abandoned railroad bed. It was getting dark so we found a spot away from the dump trucks carrying gravel to ...

Campsite #62 at the far end of City of Rocks in Idaho. We had the place to ourselves. Lots of house and car sized boulders plus across the road was a great view of the valley below. It was very quiet with dark skies. There were some emigrant inscriptions on some of the boulders as this is a...

We wanted to explore Centennial Valley but the Red Rock Pass Road was sloppy mud according to a camper who barely made it out. Also, the host said that their winter weather was a month early. We returned to Arco, fueled up, then headed south on the Arco to Minidoka Road. It started out...

We fueled up in Arco then headed northeasterly to camp at Stoddard Creek Campground for the night. It was really foggy and kinda scary with a semi riding our tail and nowhere to pull over. He finally honked then passed as we slowed waaay down. We discovered this cool mini canyon made by Beaver...

We encountered lots of rain then snow was predicted so headed south to camp at Joe T Fallini campground at the McKay Reservoir. We don’t usually camp at paved campgrounds but didn’t want to get caught on gravel roads in the snow. Not as adventurous as we used to be. We did go a few backroads and...

Along Lime Creek Road in search of agates and jaspers. We had planned to drive the Custer Motorway to visit the ghost town of Custer but the road turned to that clay gravel stuff so we turned around to head south to look for agates around Challis. No one came by and traffic was sparse on 93.

Morgan Creek Canyon can get sloppy sliding after and during rain. Thankfully, the rocks didn’t come tumbling down. We are in our way to Challis to fuel up and get groceries.

Morgan Creek campground now along Morgan Creek Road after the 7578’ Morgan Creek Summit. Again, no one there but more traffic, mainly area ranchers. Free. Very beautiful area.

Panther Creek along the Panther Creek Road heading south to Challis. We had the road to ourselves so just so drove slowly looking for photo ops and animals.

Along the Salmon River. There was a petroglyph panel and semi ghost town of Shoup which we stopped to view. But this was pretty much the scenery along the river.

Spring Creek Campground along the Salmon River back in Idaho. The scenery could have been spectacular except for a wildfire that raged through the canyon. We ran into little traffic as the rafting season was pretty much over. The road was wide and graveled.

Spring Gulch campground just before Sula, MT. We drove down 203/269 from Florence to Hamilton stopping at the Daly Mansion. 93 through the Bitteroot Valley is congested so we took the quieter backroads.

We took a backroad that would lead us from the Lolo Pass Visitor Center to Montana just past Lewis and Clark campground. Lots of creeks and I don’t know which one this was. The roads were 373 and 451, both decent gravel roads. We encountered one other vehicle.

We stopped at the deVoto Memorial Cedar Grove to wander among giants. It is on both sides of the highway.

The Lochsa River along the Lolo Pass Highway. We camped by the Clearwater at Wild Goose campground then along the Lochsa at Whitehorse. We wanted to camp along the Selway but it was closed due to a rockslide. Campgrounds were half full.

Dent. Ridge across the Dworshak Reservoir. We drove the Elk River Backcountry Byway which was through clear cuts. We were not impressed. The bridge is the tallest in Idaho.

Campsite view at Elk Creek Reservoir near Elk River, Idaho. We had the small campground to ourselves as it was for shorter RVs and tenters.

Camp site at McCroskey state park in Idaho. We could see into the Palouse of Washington and the forested hillsides of Idaho on the ridge. No one came through except a dirt biker. Very quiet and peaceful. Free.

Road less travelled into Mary Minerva McCroskey state park in Idaho.

Dispersed camping along Osborn Bay Lake south of Electric City, WA

Diablo Lake overlook North Cascades Hwy. You can see the smoke from the current fire.