Snake River Canyon Scenic Byway
Snake River Canyon Scenic Byway is a State Scenic Byway in Idaho. Within Idaho it covers roughly 50 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Snake River Canyon Scenic Byway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Snake River Canyon Scenic Byway winds more than 50 miles through southwestern Idaho's agricultural heartland, starting on Idaho 45 at Walters Ferry. It threads a chain of rural roads — Map Rock Road, Chicken Dinner Road, Lowell Road, and others — to a bridge crossing the Snake River into Nyssa, Oregon. A group of local citizens created the byway in 2009 specifically to document and preserve the region's farming heritage, making it one of only five agriculturally themed scenic byways in the country and the only one in Idaho. The drive passes orchards, wineries, and irrigated farmland framed by the Snake River Canyon itself, along with Old Fort Boise, a reconstruction of a 19th-century fur-trading post, and Map Rock, home to Idaho's only archaeological park and a boulder covered in Native American petroglyphs. Road names like Chicken Dinner Road hint at the byway's grounded, working-landscape character rather than a manicured tourist route.
- 50+ miles through southwest Idaho farmland
- Created in 2009 to preserve agricultural heritage
- One of only 5 agricultural scenic byways in the US
- Old Fort Boise reconstruction
- Map Rock petroglyphs, Idaho's only archaeological park
- Walters Ferry to the Oregon border
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.
Where to Stay along Snake River Canyon Scenic Byway
1 campground or RV park sits within about 5 miles of Snake River Canyon Scenic Byway.
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