Celebration Park
The Celebration Park is an archaeological park in the west of the United States in southwest Idaho . It is the state's first archaeological park and borders the Snake River near Melba and Walters Ferry in Canyon County . The park offers camping, restrooms, drinking water, picnics, guided tours, as well as fishing and access to hiking trails on the Snake River for a small daily fee. The park is about 690 m above sea level.
Attractions
The park features petroglyphs , rock carvings of the Native Americans , about 12,000 years old . The area was inhabited by Paiute and Shoshonen in earlier times during the winter .
The park's railway bridge across the Snake River was built in 1897 to transport gold and silver ore from Silver City to Nampa for smelting . It has been renovated and can be visited. It is the largest historical structure in the state. The 450 ton steel structure is 21 m high and stretches 150 m over the river. Abandoned in 1947, the bridge was saved from demolition in the 1970s, and was purchased and restored by Canyon County in 1989.
There are also large amounts of melon gravel in the park, a rubble that was deposited there by the Bonneville Flood .
Web pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Celebration Park in idahoocta.org; accessed on August 25, 2019.
- ↑ Celebration Park , at blm.gov, accessed August 27, 2019.
Coordinates: 43 ° 7 ′ 56 " N , 116 ° 31 ′ 22.8" E