Visitor Blog

Outside Magazine, in its August issue, named Boise, Idaho the winner for best overall town in the West.  The article talks about the city, its great recreational opportunities and the popular Northend Neighborhood.   Read the full article here. 

One of America’s most celebrated publications is celebrating Boise a vacation destination, naming it one of the most underrated cities in the West.
 
Featured along side other great cities such as Honolulu, Portland and Flagstaff, Boise gets credit for its vibrant downtown, Greenbelt riverside walking/biking path, and nearby wine country.
 
The list was compiled by Sunset Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Katie Tamony ,who describes Boise as “…like Denver, but smaller and easier to get around.”

Read more here.

This Mother Nature Network Destination of the Week story tells you how to eat, sleep, walk, see, float and go green in Boise.

Read the full article here.

Read eHow contributor Krista Sheehan's three suggestions for great sushi near downtown Boise.

Learn more here. 

Rally car racing in Idaho?! You bet.

On July 16-17, 2010 driver and co-driver teams in 40 cars will be competing for Idaho’s Rally Crown. The two competitive days will be jam packed and should deliver an unforgettable experience. The Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau will help to host Stage Control Crews and other key players in the event structure to further help to lift the overall quality of the rally.

The Idaho Rally is becoming one of the longest stage rallies in North America with over 150 stage miles of world class dirt roads.

This year, the headquarters for the event will be in Boise,  where Expo Idaho will serve both as the main service area and provide a spectator-friendly venue for a new super special stage.

Learn more here.

Get a jump start on spring at the 7th annual Easter EGGstravaganza at Zoo Boise on March 27th from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Join the Easter Bunny for fun activities including Egg Scrambles, photo ops, face painting, Easter Egg toss, Fun Jumps, animal enrichment activities and, of course, the zoo.

Admission is $6.50 for adults, $3.75 for children (4-11), $4.00 for senior (62& over) and free for children (3 & under). Friends of Zoo Boise Annual Pass holders may enter for free (with pass and photo id) and have a special entrance gate.

Learn more here.

The Ironman 70.3 Boise will rely on more than 1,000 event volunteers to ensure a successful, safe and exciting event.

Click here to find the information you need to get involved.

Gioacchino Rossini’s comic opera Cinderella (La cenerentola) will receive its first professional performances in Boise since 1979 on Friday, Feb. 26 (7:30 pm) and Sunday, Feb. 28 (2:30 pm), 2010, at the Egyptian Theatre.

The opera, last performed in Idaho in 1979 by the touring Western Opera Theater, will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Ballet Idaho Artistic Director Peter Anastos will make his Opera Idaho directing debut. Boise Baroque and former Opera Idaho and Boise Philharmonic conductor Daniel Stern will conduct. The opera tells the classic fairy tell, but with a twist … there are no glass slippers, rather bracelets, and the fairy godmother is a fairy godfather … but, it all adds up to an uproariously funny opera.

Details here.

Stuck in a meeting, but "need" to know the snow situation at Bogus Basin? Good news! The ski resort (just 40 minutes from Downtown Boise) has rolled a mobile web site.

The mobile site lets you check grooming reports, web cams and event schedules from your iPhone or other mobile device.

See it for yourself here.

After receiving more than 25" of snow in just a matter of days, Bogus Basin, the ski resort just 40 minutes from downtown Boise, is set to open today.

While the entire mountain won't be open just yet, the recent snow fall means there will be plenty of fresh powder. Get out and enjoy it!

The University of Idaho Vandals (7-5) from the Western Athletic Conference and Bowling Green State University Falcons (7-5) from the Mid-American Conference have accepted invitations to compete in the 2009 Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl. The game is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 30 at 2:30 p.m. MST in 34,000 seat Bronco Stadium and will be televised nationally on ESPN. It will be the first match-up of the two teams that have turned around their programs. Idaho will be making its first bowl appearance since the 1998 Humanitarian Bowl while Bowling Green will be competing in its second bowl in three years after consecutive berths in 2003 and 2004.

Purchase your tickets to the 2009 Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl by clicking any of the links on the Humanitarian Bowl home page or by calling 208-424-4737.

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Idaho and potatoes have been conjoined for years.  So much so that their matrimony has become a cliché in our lexicon. The fact that New York restaurants proudly promote Idaho potatoes is not surprising. We do potatoes well and it’s made Idaho famous.
 
Idaho is also known for its wine. I know it sounds like an unlikely pairing much like “anticipated serendipity” but don’t be surprised if and ampersand is added just after “Famous Potatoes.”
 
The reason? Southern Idaho offers ideal growing conditions for vinifera grape varieties due to its high-elevation vineyards, well-drained volcanic ash soils and northerly latitude, which fosters a long growing season. The region’s cold winters allow the vines a restful dormancy, while the warm days and cool nights of summer yield grapes with perfectly balanced sugars and acids.

Idaho is a burgeoning wine region and it just might make us famous.

Looking for a taste all that Boise is? Watch this short video we produced last year featuring popular local musicians.

It's time to start thinking about those Christmas lists, and the Linen Building Sunday Market is the best place to find one-of-a-kind gifts for all of your friends and family. The November Sunday Market runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15.

The Sunday Market creators will be stocked with all sorts of unique, locally-made gifts: arts and crafts, jewelry, food, even handprint art and portrait photography to give Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa a memento they'll cherish for years.