Eastern Idaho Driving Tour

Eastern Idaho is the perfect place to take a driving tour on your vacation in the West. It's filled with incredible mountain vistas and green valleys. You'll see national parks and the wilderness of forest preserves. Bring the whole family for a scenic drive and nature adventure in eastern Idaho.

A beautiful driving tour through eastern Idaho will have everyone trying to catch their breath from the beauty they observe. Spring and fall are the best times to come to Idaho to see these wonderful sights.

The Mesa Falls Scenic Byway provides a driving tour through the forests and meadows near Yellowstone National Park. It's a 28-mile tour that takes about an hour. This byway visits two waterfalls that thunder through a narrow chasm of the Henrys Fork River. You'll see wildlife everywhere, including moose, deer and elk. As you drive from Ashton east on route 47, watch for Big Bend Ridge, which is the western side of a volcano that erupted over a million years ago. You'll be winding through the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. You can also try a driving tour on the Bear Lake - Caribou Scenic Byway, only 55 miles east of Pocatello, or the Teton Scenic Byway 50 miles east of Idaho Falls.