The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
OAKLEY, CAsSIA COUNTY, IDAHO
Craters Of Moon Accessible
To 1925 Park Tourists
By Touss2int Dubois in The
Idaho Sunday Statesman

The Craters of the Moon, national
monument, has by now become ia
miliar to the people of southern
Idaho. Too. they are beginning to
rea.ize the benefit that will come to
the individual. the towns, and the
state when the gateways are thrown
open to travel in the spring and the
wide advertisers, will visit this regi-
on on their way to or from Yellow
stone National park. 1t will be pos-s
sible, under the new highway system
for the 1925 season tourists to visit
yellowstone via the Craters of the
Moon.
There are to be two highways into
this monument for tourists going ID
Yellowstone and also two improved
highways for tourists who enter cyl
lowstone first and wish to see the
Craters of the Moon on their way
west These passages form two en-
frances and exits leading directly
through the craters to West Yellow
Idaho from the northwest and west
reach Boise on the old Oregon trail. |
From there they have two highways
over which to reach the Craters of
the Moon, national monument Leav- !
ing Mountain Home one road turns
northeast to HALEY and the other !
continues southeast to Minidoa. The /
distance from HALEY to the north |
entrance of the Craters monument is |
about As miles. This road continues
into Arco and is in good condition.
Between HALEY and Carey the road
is surfaced, and from Carey to Arco
it is good country road with no
dangerous grades and fairly smooth.
Six miles west of Minidoka the
proposed road from Minidoka to Ar
co by the Craters of the Moon, COM
mences. At the present time there is
no road directly to the south en-
trance of the monument. The high
way engineers deem it feasible to
connect the proposed road to the
southern part of the craters with the
Minidoka-Arco road. This win be
completed in time for the spring
tourists. The distance from Minidoka
to the Craters monument south en-
trance as proposed is about AZ miles 1
either of these two roads. through |.
HALEY or through Minidoka. win
take the Yellowstone park tourist 5
.l,,1uoh fbo .ou- x.,~I k~...
From Arco there is again a choice d
Of two highways, the most advisable
being the improved thoroughfare X
from Arcoto Blackfoot, where the
Yellowstone highway is picked up. U
running from Blackfoot northeast to
West Yellowstone This Blackfoot- e
Arco highroad is being put into good
condition from Arco to the Big p
Butte. The stretch between the Big .
Butte and Tabor is at the present II
ime under construction by the state
highway department. The Black ca
DOT chamber of commerce.. which is az
aking active interest in the Craters IL
# the Moon project, will cooperate pl
few miles where improvement is =.
ecessary. The whole highway will di
e in first class condition for sum
ner travel. The distance from Arco
o Blackfoot is approximately 50 :.
niles and from Blackfoot to West ~
'ellowstone about 110 miles
The second road from Arco is
ountry road running northeast be- -
ween Arco and West Yellowstone
trough Dubois and Trude. The two
'estern entrances to the Craters of
le Moon can thus continue directly
} the Yellowstone National park
trough Arco without going around
leextreme southeastern part of the
ate, as is now the case, and the =
'urists from Yellowstone may like -
Use go west directly by way of Ar
} and the Craters of the Moon. All
these thoroughfares mentioned
e Idaho state highways under the -'N ~
per cent system, that is, the high
sys eligible to receive federal aid.
Il ofthis system is passabIe during
e tourist season.
With the road question settled so
tisfactoriiy and soon our embryo o..
traction is fast beginning to take -,
size and shape and is growing in ~
real live park. / can look into
e future and anticipate that Idaho
ii some day be proud of her twis-
4
l offspring and will eventually
Id that her ugly ouckling" has Mis-
rned into swan ma
gro
j. w. Simmons accompanied by p.