4K City Walks: Boise Idaho virtual treadmill walking tour

We visited Boise Idaho for our latest 4K virtual treadmill walking tour. We start out in the hotel district and walk up towards the capitol building into a nearby residential area with large houses and then back through the restaurant district. Boise is a bustling hip city with lots of places to stay hotels motels and AirBnBs. There are lots of great restaurants breweries and coffee shops. There are bird and Lime scooters all over the place. We had a great time in this modern vibrant city. For Boise State University Campus walk: Joan Gallardo from Velencia put this map of the walk together with some key places an moments. Thanks Joan! Here are some facts from Wikipedia: Boise is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho the population of Boise at the 2010 Census was 205671 the 99th largest in the United States. Its estimated population in 2016 was 223154.5 Downtown Boise in the fall of 2013 The Boise-Nampa metropolitan area also known as the Treasure Valley includes five counties with a combined population of 709845 the most populous metropolitan area in Idaho. It contains the states three largest cities Boise Nampa and Meridian. Boise is the 80th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States Accounts differ regarding the origin of the name. One account credits Capt. B.L.E. Bonneville of the U.S. Army as its source. After trekking for weeks through dry and rough terrain his exploration party reached an overlook with a view of the Boise River Valley. The place where they stood is called Bonneville Point located on the Oregon Trail east of the city. According to the story a French-speaking guide overwhelmed by the sight of the verdant river yelled Les bois! Les bois! The woods! The woods!and the name stuck. The name may instead derive from earlier mountain men who named the river that flows through it. In the 1820s French Canadian fur trappersset trap lines in the vicinity. Set in a high-desert area the tree-lined valley of the Boise River became a distinct landmark an oasis dominated by cottonwood trees. They called this La rivière boisée which means the wooded river. Main Street in 1911 The area was called Boise long before the establishment of Fort Boise by the federal government. The original Fort Boise was 40 miles 64 km west near Parma down the Boise River near its confluence with the Snake River at the Oregon border. This private sector defense was erected by the Hudsons Bay Company in the 1830s. It was abandoned in the 1850s but massacres along the Oregon Trail prompted the U.S. Army to re-establish a fort in the area in 1863 during the U.S. Civil War. The new location was selected because it was near the intersection of the Oregon Trail with a major road connecting the Boise Basin Idaho City and the Owyhee Silver City mining areas both of which were booming. During the mid-1860s Idaho City was the largest city in the Northwest and as a staging area Fort Boise grew rapidly Boise was incorporated as a city 156 years ago in 1863. The first capital of the Idaho Territory was Lewiston in north central Idaho which in 1863 was the largest community exceeding the populations of Olympia and Seattle Washington Territory and Portland Oregon combined. The original territory was larger than Texas. But following the creation of Montana Territory Boise was made the territorial capital of a much reduced Idaho in a controversial decision which overturned a district court ruling by a one-vote majority in the territorial supreme court along geographic lines in 1866. Virtual treadmill walk video - virtualtreadmill virtualwalk citywalks These videos are great for treadmill walking scenery. Getting good health at the gym while traveling to different and special virtual locations. hotel motel,

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