STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
Check out the blue camas during the Sawtooth Botanical Garden’s 19th year of Wildflower Walks.
Botanists, naturalists and birders will lead a hike to the Camas Prairie from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, June 8.
the tour will start at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden, four miles south of Ketchum. Participants will caravan by car to the trailhead. Children under 14 are welcome with an adult, but dogs are asked to stay home and take a nap.
Participants should wear tennis shoes or hiking shoes and bring rain gear, sun protection, water and lunch.
The hike is free, but donations for the garden will be gratefully accepted.
Other upcoming walks:
June 15—Craters of the Moon
June 22—Boulder View north of Ketchum
June 29—Greenhorn Gulch
July 6—Taylor Creek
July 13—Murdock Creek behind the SNRA headquarters
Locations are subject to change depending on where the flowers are blooming. But all walks will originate at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden.
To learn more, call 208-726-9358 or visit www.sbgarden.org.