The Insiders' Guide to Boise and Sun Valley Back to Shopping Shopping Tips Parking in downtown Boise is not difficult unless you insist on parking directly in front of the place you are visiting. The city has 18,000 public and private parking spaces.
Metered parking is free on evenings and weekends.
Old Boise has its own free parking lot, just south of Main Street on 6th Street. Combine a museum visit with books going back in time by visiting Nampa's historical district. Two of the Treasure Valley's best used bookstores, Twice Sold Tales and The Yesteryear Shoppe, are near each other on 1st Street. Just around the corner is the Oregon Short Line Depot, built in 1902, which is full of pictures, objects, exhibits, furniture, machinery and other items that go back to the settlement of the Treasure Valley. You might try a book on tape to set the little devil's mind on fire.