Take a chance on a small town vacation

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A five-hour drive west in Idaho’s Sun Valley wilderness you’ll find epic outdoor adventures you can have all to yourself. Mountain bike and horseback ride among gorgeous peaks and meadows similar to Yellowstone’s. Here on the legendary Middle Fork of the Salmon River, one of the country’s first protected National Wild and Scenic Rivers, go rafting with stops at safari-style camps with Far and Away Adventures. Or, like Ernest Hemingway, fly fish local rivers and creeks for Idaho’s prized brown or rainbow trout. Geothermal features are prevalent in Sun Valley, too, except here you can soak in one instead of just framing a shot from a busy boardwalk.