Aug 19, 2008
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Welcome to Henry’s Fork Country

In late winter 2007, members of the three chambers of commerce in Fremont County — Island Park, Ashton, and St. Anthony, met for dinner at the Trails Inn in Ashton.

These dedicated people shared ideas for promoting the many wonderful attractions in the county.

Idaho’s tourism division has divided the state into seven travel regions. Fremont County is in the state’s Eastern Idaho region, but the Fremont County chambers wanted to narrow the focus down to the spectacular area within their county’s borders.

What do the communities of Island Park, Ashton, and...  [more]

Welcome to Henry’s Fork Country 
 

What's goin' on?

Click here to view movies on the Island Park News You Tube Channel

Fri- Sun, Aug. 1 - 3
   Island Park Wild Horse Stampede,
annual Crystal Brothers rodeo at Henry's Lake.

Monday, August 4
   Party bridge,
10 a.m. to about 2:30 p.m., Elk Creek Lodge, no host lunch at noon for $8, call ahead to say you're coming - Maxine Saurey...  [more]

What's goin' on? 
 

Free photography workshops begin Aug. 18

Learn from the pros with top-tier cameras

YELLOWSTONE PARK — The National Park Service hosts Canon and American Park Network in presenting free digital photography workshops. Join a photo walk with seasoned professionals who share their experience taking landscape and wildlife photographs using the latest digital technology. By attending a weekend photo walk, you will learn to improve your photo composition skills, and be inspired by the photo professionals who conduct each photo walk.

Weekday programs are...  [more]

Featured Stories Sections
 
Historical Society creates Island Park Banner  
In celebration of our wonderful community, an Island Park Historical Society committee has designed an attractive banner that can be displayed at a cabin or business — inside or outside.

The Island Park Banner, pictured here, is made of...

Henry's Fork T-s at the News shop  
The Island Park News on line store has a new shirt design just in time for the warm weather.

The Henry's Fork Country shirt sports the osprey logo used on the new Henry's Fork County Recreation Guide and...

Surfing Henry's Fork Country: Chambers on line  
Chambers of commerce in Henry's Fork Country all have a strong internet presence.  The Island Park, Ashton, and St. Anthony chambers each have a Web site with lists of chamber members, information about how to join, area events, and links...

Teaching kids to love the outdoors  
By LERINNA COLLINS

Do you remember how your heart raced as you gazed on your first moose? Can you recollect the first time the haunting call of a sandhill crane resonated on the chords of...

Mesa Falls Scenic Byway  
The Mesa Falls Scenic Byway begins where the Teton Scenic Byway reaches its northern end in Ashton, at the junction of U.S. 20 and Idaho 47. From there, the route travels through the town of Warm River toward its main...

ART MUSEUM EXHIBIT HONORS LOCAL ART LEGEND  
IDAHO FALLS – The latest art exhibit at the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho honors local art legend Helen Hoff Aupperle in a retrospective \ spanning six decades. Helen Aupperle: A Force Revisited will be in Idaho Falls through September...

How Island Park got its name   
Some folks believe Island Park got its name from the early phenomena of floating islands on Henry's Lake recorded by the well known photographer, William Henry Jackson. Others believe it was derived from the islands on the winding Snake River....

U. S. Army Winter Training Base - West Yellowstone, Montana  
By TOM HOWELL

PROLOGUE
Since the 1940's, generations of locals and tourists in the Island Park, Idaho area have driven by the old concrete footings and what appears to be two...

Snow machines in the gardens: The history of snowmobiles in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks  
By Michael J. Yochim
From Montana: The Magazine of Western History,  Autumn 2003

Shards Of metal lay on the snow next to the machine, and the acrid smell of gunpowder permeated the air. The snowmobile was seriously...

A brief history of fly fishing  
By Lerrina Collins

Understanding a sport’s history often enhances our appreciation of the sport. Take fly fishing. It is a big draw to our community, contributing many dollars to our coffers each season. Did you...

Ashton: Gateway to Yellowstone’s remote Bechler Area & much more..  
The Ashton area is a wonderful place to live or visit! One of the community’s most outstanding assets is the magnificent views of the Grand Teton Mountain Range rising out of the gently rolling farmland to the southeast.

There...

The Cult of the Secret Huckleberry Patch  
By Elizabeth Laden

Many huckleberry moons ago, during my first summer in this country and when I lived in West Yellowstone, my source of local wisdom was an old timer named Bud McCray.

He...

The amazing white pelican  
By Elizabeth Laden

A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill can hold more than his belican.

 

Community
 Engaging Energetic Employees   
 Amusement park...or national park?   
 Geographics and Demographics   
 Island Park   
 Ashton: Small town America   
 Who is an Island Park-er?   
 Fort Henry Historic Byway   
 Stampede draws 200-plus runners & walkers   

History
 Old time residents on the Buffalo River   
 Storytelling is part of the caldera's charm   
 2007: Island Park turned 60 this year   
 A brief history of Mack's Inn   
 A history of the 7 Bar Ranch   
 Extraordinary Island Park People   
 A history of Warm River   
 A mountain, a developer, & an Indian   
 A history of the Bear Gulch Ski Basin   
 Remembering the Ott Harris Family   
 On the west wall of the St. Anthony Post Office...   
 Flight of the Nez Perce through Leadore & Island Park to West Yellowstone   
 When Bars Were Called Resorts   
 Cows on the Buffalo   
 A Forty Year Look Back    
 Railroad Ranch: The Island Park Land & Cattle Company   
 History of I. P. Bills Island   
 A short history of Aspen Ridge   

Island Park Area Attractions
 Caribou-Targhee National Forest   
 Big Springs & Johnny Sack Cabin   
 Henry’s Lake State Park   
 Henry's Lake Hatchery   
 Harriman State Park   
 Mesa Falls Recreation Area   
 Island Park Reservoir   
 The Flat Ranch   

St. Anthony Area Attractions
 St. Anthony - The county seat & base for great recreation   
 Fremont County Courthouse   
 The Doughboy & Clyde Keefer Memorial Park   
 The Sandbar Swimming Area   
 The Henry's Fork Greenway   
 Skater's Haven   
 St. Anthony Sand Dunes & Egin Lakes Recreation Access   
 Fremont County Golf Course   
 Civil Defense Caves   
 Sand Creek Wildlife Management Area   

National Parks
 What Makes an Old Geyser Faithful?   

Critters
 There's a bear in my campsite   
 Common myths about bears   
 Please help prevent wild bears from becoming garbage bears   
 Hiking in Bear Country   
 The West's fascinating, vanishing pronghorn   
 A healing ceremony for Yellowstone's wild bison   
 Feeding birds...or bears?   

Centennial Valley
 Elk Lake Resort: Remote & rewarding   

Unsolved Crimes & Missing People
 Unsolved Murder of Angie Dodge   
 Unsolved crimes in southeast Idaho   
 In Loving Memory of Angie Raye Dodge   
 Angie Dodge case: Convicted killer, mom of victim seek justice   

Cat Tales by Smokey the Wildcat
 Chapter 1: I almost become a statistic   
 Chapter 2: The Paw   
 Chapter 3: The fox & other furry critters   
 Chapter 4: An avalanche buries me   
 Chapter 5: Pets, purrs, and I’m a ‘boy’   
 Chapter 6: I defend my territory   
 Chapter 7: That darn cat   
 Chapter 8: An important lesson   
 Chapter 9: The woman flunks her walking lesson   
 Chapter 10: I meet my first moose   
 Chapter 11: I get fan mail    
 Chapter 12: My people make winter plans for me   

Henry's Fork Foundation
 Trout Numbers in the Caldera   
 The Caldera Project   
 Looking back at the '03 drought   
 Henry's Fork Foundation looks at successes   
 24 years working for the river   
 Buffalo River fish passage   
 All about winter survival   
 Sediment in the Henry’s Fork   
 Buffalo River fish passage   
 Winter flows and wild trout below Island Park Dam