
Atlas Obscura
Silver Creek Preserve in Bellevue, Idaho
In the high desert near Picabo, Idaho, a cold, wildlife-filled stream winds through wetlands and grasslands, fed not primarily by mountain runoff but by water emerging from the ground. Water from the surrounding hills and nearby Big Wood River percolates underground through an aquifer before being forced back toward the surface near the Picabo Hills. Numerous springs feed seven large tributarie…
Water emerges from the ground near here.