12 IDAHO PICTURES - MAGIC VALLEY

This Gallery is     Shoshone Falls, the Snake River Gorge, Balanced Rock, Thousand Springs and Malad Gorge State Park are all sights at Twin Falls, Idaho...an area often called Magic Valley.  The name "Magic Valley" is a reference to the construction of Milner Dam and a series of irrigation canal systems in the Snake River Plain during the first decade of the 20th Century. In a short time these projects "magically" transformed what had been considered a nearly uninhabitable area into some of the most productive farmland in the Pacific Northwest.
        Shoshone Falls, born of the Snake River,  is often called the "Niagara of the West"! Shoshone Falls is 212 feet  high and flows over a rim 900 feet  wide.   Though the growing season sees this incredible falls diverted to agriculture,  the lovely Shoshone Falls State Park still provides colorful Idaho landscape pictures and imaginative water features at every season of the year.