If you'd like to combine dinner with your Warm Springs ride, reserve a place at the Winter's Feast, served inside a Mongolian yurt along the sleigh route. As mentioned above, Trail Creek was the old haunt of Hemingway, as well as Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Ava Gardner. Wildlife viewing One mention of viewing wildlife, and the Sun Valley locals quickly refer you to Silver Creek Preserve, located about 30 miles south of Ketchum. Managed and owned by The Nature Conservancy, the preserve stands as one of the few, and best, remaining high desert cold-spring ecosystems in the West. Thousands of ducks also refuge here in the winter, along with dozens of Trumpeter swans and the occasional Sandhill crane.
Several trails run through the preserve.
Before heading out on one of them, you first need to sign in at the visitor center. Then turn right at the Silver Creek Preserve sign, about five miles from the intersection on the right side of the highway. The information center is another mile down the dirt road. The original owner of the Sun Valley Resort, Averell Harriman, thought big. He would settle for nothing less than the best ski resort in the world, offering skiers amenities they could find nowhere else.