Taking The Road(s) Less Traveled North to McCall - Boise Weekly
The next time someone asks how far it is from Boise to McCall, I'll say 311 miles. Adjacent to scenic Idaho Highway 55, backcountry routes between Eagle and New Meadows are a special place to get lost. Karp was seated on his rod-modded BMW Dakar 650, Nolan on his BMW F800GS and I was aboard my trusty Kawasaki KLR 650 (a custom build by Happy Trails Products in Boise). I've ridden this bike on three continents, but it's nowhere more at home than in Idaho's weird places. When I was a kid, McCall was my happy place. Now that I'm old and grouchy, I don't go to McCall to go to McCall anymore. Karp, Nolan and I went into some remote places you shouldn't attempt to get to unless you are a savvy Idaho outdoorsperson and a skilled motorcycle rider—four-wheeled vehicles can't even get many of the places we went—so I will not reveal routes... But I will share some of the waypoints on our trip: Garden Valley, Yellowpine, somewhere near the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, Warren and McCall. Leaving Boise on one of the two dirt routes heading north, we had 160 miles of less-traveled road and two track before reaching camp for the night. Source: www.boiseweekly.com
