jbrodsky

My family and I are thinking about moving to North Idaho after the new year. Possibly the CDA area. What are the trails like up there? Are there plenty of places to jeep?

I also like to shoot... can you shoot on BLM land up there? I'd like to live somewhat close to trails and places to shoot

What other areas besides CDA would you recommend checking out? We're gonna take a trip out there in Sept to look at different areas

thanks!

stagedtrip

I'm in southern idaho, the north is beautiful. There is no where in idaho you can stand (except in a hole) and not see a mountain so lots of places to play. You can shoot on blm land. Idaho is full of open wilderness and sparsely populated.
There is also tons of desert areas to play with the jeep and shoot.

dfw6er

I ran into a couple (husband and wife) about a month ago that just moved to the DFW area from CDA. They lived right on the lake, had a boat, lived for the summers. They absolutely hated the winters, but made the best of them...cross country skiing, etc, as they're both very outdoorsy.
If you're a big outdoors man, you'll love it. I even looked at job opportunities in that area about a year ago, but the wife has nixed anything that might have 6 months of snow as a job location.
Good luck.

stagedtrip

The snow in northern idaho is worse than here

jbrodsky

what part of ID are you in? did you just take that pic this month?

jbrodsky

yeah that's what I thought. I figured I'd better check here though aand make sure before we spend a lot of $$ flying out there and what not

If anyone has suggestions on specific areas to look at or to avoid let me know!

We lived in NY for 5 years so we're no strangers to winter although less snow the better... I realize there is a trade off with wanting to live in an environment like that and dealing with winter.

stagedtrip

No that was in january I think..
This was the pile I plowed up in my driveway

stagedtrip

This was actually an odd winter for this part of idaho, not usually this much snow. Depends on what you are looking for as far as work and what ya wanna do outdoors. You can drive for hours and hours on trails in any of the mountain ranges here. Great hunting and fishing everywhere

jbrodsky

My wife and I will both be working from home so all we'll need is a good internet connection. Outdoors would be looking for hiking trails near by, off roading of course target shooting and hunting bow and rifle

We like forested / mountain areas that's why we were looking at NID more

stagedtrip

That's all of idaho. Northern is definetly more beautiful than it is here, much harsher winter. If ya got the money look at Sun valley/ ketchum area. But anywhere your less than an hour from somewhere to shoot or hike or fish or trail ride