I decided to stop for the day in Idaho Falls. I’m not sure about the rest of the city but the area where I landed is lovely.

They get nearly all their electricity from a single hydroelectric station on the Snake River. I find that amazing for a city with a population of nearly 60,000.

This is the generating station. I’m used to seeing dams built across valleys to create lakes from which the turbines are driven. Here, the river has such a tremendous flow that they simply divert it through the turbines as is passes through the city.  What a nice, clean and unobtrusive power plant.

And then they built a lovely park along both sides of the river around the plant.

Of course, Heleigh had to go swimming.

At this point Idaho Falls is the highlight of her trip.

Cheers.