Old Pen and Hagerman

We went to the Old Penitentiary in Boise. This is the old 1860's Territorial prison which closed in 1973. The inmates quarried the stone to their own prison. Part of the old prison is the state arboretum. We left Boise and went to Hagerman. Here at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, they are famous for the Hagerman Horse, a pre-historic relative of the zebra. The fossils in the area are some of the best of recent periods (3-5 million years ago). We also went to the Malad Gorge. We are camped at Thousand Springs. Here, a large underground aquifer drains out the sides of the cliffs from Hagerman to Twin Falls. The area directly across from our camp 7 miles south of Hagerman seems the best showing of the springs.