Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Boise
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Boise? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Winter Garden aGlow at Idaho Botanical Garden, Bigfoot & Marie Dorian Statues at Old Fort Boise Replica, Cowboy Muffler Man and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Boise they'd never find on their own.
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Winter Garden aGlow at Idaho Botanical Garden
Each winter the Idaho Botanical Garden, set on the grounds of the old state penitentiary, strings more than 8…
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Bigfoot & Marie Dorian Statues at Old Fort Boise Replica
On the lawn beside a wooden replica of Old Fort Boise stand two cement figures, dedicated in 1974 by Idaho's…
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Cowboy Muffler Man
A 22-foot fiberglass giant looms over an RV park just off Interstate 84, one of the surviving 'Muffler Men' c…
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Big Idaho Potato Hotel
A six-ton, 28-foot-long steel-and-plaster russet that spent years touring the country on a truck for the Idah…
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Boise Castle Home
On the eastern edge of Boise, near the Old Idaho Penitentiary, sits a full-blown private castle that owner Ti…
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Balanced Rock
A 40-ton, roughly 48-foot-tall slab of volcanic rock sits impossibly atop a pedestal only about three feet by…
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Little City of Rocks
This BLM wilderness study area is packed with hoodoos, mushroom caps, spires and natural arches eroded out of…
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Bonneville Point
On this bluff east of Boise you can still see deep parallel grooves carved into the earth by Oregon Trail wag…