Hell’s Half Acre Interpretive Trail
Blackfoot / Hell's Half Acre, Idaho
Activity
Hiking / Geology
Distance
1 mi round trip
Elevation gain
~100 ft
Route
Interpretive loop
The adventure
Step off I-15 and onto the developed interpretive lava trail. Hell's Half Acre is only a few thousand years old.
Park at the Blackfoot Rest Area, enter the nearby interpretive trail, complete the developed lava walk and return to parking. Wildflowers brighten pockets of black lava. Rattlesnakes and raptors use the flow.
ONCE YOU’RE THERE Use the Blackfoot Rest Area exit in your direction of travel. The interpretive trails begin close to the parking area; follow the signed route and return to the same rest-area complex.
LOCAL INTEL Stay on the developed route around fissured lava.
FEES, PERMITS & ACCESS No mandatory entrance, parking, access, permit, reservation, or similar fee is required to complete this Adventure as routed.
What to expect
- Step off I-15 and onto the developed interpretive lava trail.
- Use the Blackfoot Rest Area exit in your direction of travel. The interpretive trails begin close to the parking area; follow the signed route and return to the same rest-area complex.
Good to know
- YOUNG LAVA
- Hell's Half Acre is only a few thousand years old.
- SPRING COLOR
- Wildflowers brighten pockets of black lava.
- WILDLIFE
- Rattlesnakes and raptors use the flow.
- CRACKS + TUBES
- Stay on the developed route around fissured lava.
- LEARN TWO LAVA WORDS
- Leave able to explain a'a and pahoehoe.
- Fee
- Free — no required entrance or parking fee.
- Entrance fee
- No mandatory entrance, parking, access, permit, reservation, or similar fee is required to complete this Adventure as routed.
- Dogs
- unknown.
Photos
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