It might be tough to fathom, but eight hours from the ocean, in a beautiful mountain city tucked into the foothills of the Rockies, surf angst exists. It’s not quite the crusty, sometimes-scary angst ...

BOISE, Idaho — If you like floating, kayaking or even surfing on whitewater, or if you like exotic animals, July is the month for you. The Boise Parks and Recreation Department is getting ready to ...

BOISE, Idaho — Rhett Scarbrough fell hard and fast for whitewater kayaking. A natural athlete who played college football at the University of Utah, the 32-year-old Scarbrough took to the river two ...

Contributing editor Megan Michelson is an award-winning journalist who covers travel and the outdoors for a wide range of publications, including Outside, The New York Times, and the San Francisco ...

Surfers and kayakers are returning to the Boise Whitewater Park after months of construction this past winter aimed to improve the phase two adjustable wave feature. Qatar pushes back on reports of ...

An athletic-looking man in sunglasses emerges from a small cement building next to the Boise River in Garden City and walks toward the water. The buttons and levers he just finished pushing and ...

Never mind the potatoes, it’s time to recalibrate what you think you know about Idaho—and specifically its wild, friendly, and vibrant capital, Boise. Shortlisted as one of the best places to live in ...

The Boise Whitewater Park is a great place to people watch. Er, I mean, a great place to observe surfers and kayakers catch and ride a wave — if they can. It's kind of one of those people-watching ...

Work should begin by early November on the second phase of Boise’s Whitewater Park, Boise Parks and Recreation director Doug Holloway said. Crews have to wait until irrigation season ends and the ...

For the second year in a row, Boise will host The Whitewater Awards, billed as the "Oscars of kayaking" at the Egyptian Theatre, while for the seventh year straight, hundreds of the planet's best ...