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Sun Valley Cited for Best New Tourist Attraction
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018
 

BY KAREN BOSSICK

What’s the best new tourist attraction in Idaho?

Love Exploring, a website featuring travel inspiration tips and deals, says it’s the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve.

“Last November a huge wedge of central Idaho was designated as America’s first International Dark Sky Reserve. The 1,400-square-mile area around the Sawtooth Mountains…takes in towns such as Ketchum, Sun Valley and Stanley. The clear skies in this wilderness area makes it one of the best places in the USA to see the Milky Way. And, during daylight, you can enjoy hiking, horse riding and backpacking from 23 trailheads in the area,” the article says.

The Dark Sky park takes its place alongside Alabama’s new Legacy Museum, which explores slavery and lynching and the Jim Crow South on the site of one of America’s most prominent slave markets in Montgomery.

Alaska’s new attraction is the luxurious dome Borealis Basecamp near Fairbanks and Arizona’s, the Zipline at Grand Canyon West.

Arkansas boosts the Unexpected Project Trail, a week-long modern art festival in Fort Smith that culminates in permanent murals in a modern art trail.

Delaware offers bumper cars on ice—battery-powered bumper cars that slide around the Centre Ice Rink at the Delaware State Fairgrounds. Kansas offers 30 life-size animatronic dinosaurs roaming Wichita’s Field Station Dinosaurs Theme Park where you can play miniature dino-themed golf.

Oregon offers a Goatel Retreat Center in the Willamette Valley with goat yoga and goat happy hours. Tennessee sports the new August Moon Drive-In—the first indoor cinema experience to replicate a mid-60s drive-in with meal service, fireflies modified classic cars and a simulated starry sky in a 40,000-square-foot dome that boasts America’s largest non-IMAX cinema screen.

Utah boasts the St. Regis Deer Valley Bobsled where you can hurtle down a bobsled run at 70 miles an hour. And Seattle, Wash., just opened a Nordic Museum in a 57,000-square-foot facility that  boasts a linear fjord effect.

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