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Custer Motorway Adventure Road

Salmon - Challis National Forest

Mailing Address
1206 S. Challis St.
Salmon, ID 83467

  • Phone: (208) 756-5100
Nearest City: Challis
Location: Central Idaho, between Challis and Sunbeam
Directions: From Challis, turn W at MP 246.6 , turn W onto Main St; go 1 mi; Main St becomes Garden Ck Rd; go W 4.4 mi; R at fork to FR 070; drive 30 mi; L on FR 013 (Yankee Fk Rd) to Hwy 75 at Sunbeam (MP 202.4)

Information

The Custer Motorway Adventure Road is a 46-mile back country tour which follows an historic wagon road from Challis to the gold mining towns of Custer and Bonanza over an 8,800-foot mountain pass. It is great choice for birders, who will see Spruce Grouse, Great Gray, Boreal, and Northern Saw-whet Owls, Townsend’s Solitaire, American Pipit, and Pine Grosbeak. Species found in mid-elevation conifer forests include Blue Grouse, and the Northern Goshawk.

Season: Summer , Fall
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