There are tons of places that take hard work and a good sense of direction to
find in Idaho. Places that require four-wheel-drive, hiking, and backpacks.
But sometimes you just want to keep it simple getting to where you are going.
This is Massacre Rocks State Park, 990 acres right off interstate 86 in between
Twin Falls and Pocatello. At Massacre rocks you can hang out in a stunning
landscape along the Snake River without having to worry about getting lost in
Idaho's backcountry. It's pretty ironic seeing as this area was one of the more
difficult parts of the Oregon Trail. Today, motorists fly past Massacre Rocks
in air-conditioned cars with movies playing to keep whining kids quiet in
the backseat. Not giving any thought to the families in covered wagons who
struggled across this historic ground in order to settle West. You know after reading
some of those signs and hearing about people and ox dying from dust and
mosquitoes and I'm walking down here worried about how I didn't put on sunblock.
I'll tell you what, I think you should swim across the canyon and just see how
difficult it really is. And I'll film the whole thing and then we can make that a
little piece of the segment. Like, here I am proving how difficult it is to get
across this canyon. I'm still swimming. What is that a Russian accent? What are
you trying there? I thought I was talking the same as I was always
talking but maybe it's the coffee got me all jacked up. I heard an accent.
Massacre rocks name actually got attributed when some entrepreneurs were
here and they thought well we need to have people stop so we'll we'll name
it something and they named it after the 1862 attack and that's why it's called
Massacre Rocks. We've got hiking and bicycling and we
have two disc golf courses. Fishing here, smallmouth bass, people like to come and
boulder here. Don't go too high that's the main thing.
Well we're insured right? Bouldering is just like six feet off the ground so that's
far enough. the bouldering is down there dude geeze!
Get down! Okay we've been driving and hiking all over this park and you're like I want
to climb that rock I'm gonna climb that rock and I was like that's not a bouldering rock. This is a bouldering rock.
You can tell cuz it looks like a giant boulder and there's all these white
stains on here which are chalk marks. Now, I don't have my climbing shoes or my
chalk. Normally you'd have a nice big pad here so you could fall on your butt
and not get hurt, but I'm gonna try this route here. So you start down here on your butt and...
Okay I'm gonna start a little bit higher. Alright okay that's okay I got it no no
I've done this before. Okay well if I had my climbing shoes I could do it.
Gosh there's just a lot of things to do here. Little cabins right? You can stay here?
You can rent cabins we've got 21 campsites and two cabins on the upper
loop and the same on the lower loop. I feel like somebody definitely could
have lived here back in the day. Now there's not enough room for a family so
this had to either be your bachelor pad or you know your first starter house. Snake!
Anyways before I was giving my educational lecture here. There's a nice
opening right here so if you had a fire it would definitely keep the heat in
while letting the smoke out. Yes I am a survivalist Chad alright, I don't even need a tent.
I feel like they could have named it retreat Rock I don't see why I had to
name it Massacre Rocks? I tell people get here and they're like wow this is
a gem. Yeah I like it. Alright folks first time playing frisbee
golf or disc golf. What do you call it frisbee golf, disc golf?
Either one. Okay and this is my first goal and I can't wait to hear the chains go clink.
Okay first off he called it a goal. I did? I don't know what... I called it a hole.
not a goal you just misheard me. I feel like he said this is my first goal.
I said hole. Our audio engineer says we'll check on that. Hey you know
goal, hole, what matters is I got it in the chain link thing. Hang on, excuse me one
second while I beat you. Well it took us about as long to play one hole as it did
for the settlers to cross the Snake River. I've no comeback for that. You don't.
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