🔥🧊 Fire & Ice in Southeast Idaho | Winter Travel

🔥🧊 Fire & Ice in Southeast Idaho | Winter Travel

Opposites attract. That’s also true in winter.

Warm up playing snow sports in the freezing outdoors. Toast in warm hot springs as the snow gently falls. Top off ice fishing or a polar bear float next to a wood burning stove in a yurt, lodge, or cabin.

Experience the extremes of hot and cold for yourself this winter in Southeast Idaho.

Visit our Winter Page ❄️

idahohighcountry.org/winter

Skiing & Snow Sports

Find your thrill and snowy escape in Southeast Idaho. Ski & Snowboard 54 runs over 1100 acres and 2200 vertical feet of challenging upper slopes and an extensive bunny hill. Snowshoe & Cross-Country Ski one of our 50 trails. Snowmobile over 600 miles of groomed trails. Warming lodges available at some of the sites.

Hot Springs

Several Hot Springs are sprinkled throughout Southeast Idaho to relax the body and the mind. There’s something special about sitting in warm waters with the steam rising and snowflakes falling to melt on top. Hot pools are naturally heated to a comfortable temperature between 100-112 degrees Fahrenheit at each location.

Ice Fishing

Bear Lake and our many reservoirs offer great Ice Fishing. Temperatures typically reach their lowest at the coldest days in January. Bear Lake even has Bonneville Cisco, a species found nowhere else on earth! More locations in Southeast Idaho have trout, salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, and more.

Winter Events

For the ultimate fire and ice experience, check out the Fire & Ice Winterfest in Lava Hot Springs on February 6 & 7, 2026. Events range from fire dancers, torch light skiing, and fireworks to a freezing polar bear float, curling, and running of the bulls down main street to the hot pools.

More crazy fun winter events include Marsh Valley Skijoring where skiers are pulled by horse and rider; Bear Lake Monster Winterfest with a polar plunge, 5K run/walk, cardboard boat regatta, chili cookoff, s’mores and fireworks; and Candlelight Ski & Snowshoe at East Mink Creek Nordic Center for a night ski along a candlelit trail topped off with hot chocolate and warming up around the campfire.

Yurts & More Retreats

Sleep right in the middle of the great outdoors. Make your stay memorable at a yurt in Portneuf Range Yurt System, East Fork Mink Creek Nordic Center, Maple Grove Hot Springs, and Downata Hot Springs.

You can also find cabins with wood-burning stoves and more Cozy Retreats in Southeast Idaho right next to snowy recreation and hot springs or a short drive away.

Southeast Idaho High Country Tourism
PO Box 669
Lava Hot Springs, ID 83246
1-888-201-1063
[email protected]

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