The peak was renamed after the U.S. Department of the Interior removed derogatory slurs from the names of nearly 650 geographic features in the United States. Idaho Statesman file photo Where ...

For generations, names for many Idaho geographical features have used “squaw ... is the best known of the Treasure Valley landmarks carrying the name. Visible from Boise, Nampa and Caldwell ...

The Biden administration’s Department of the Interior on Thursday announced the replacement names for nearly 650 geographical features that ... replace the names of landmarks on federal lands ...

IDAHO SPRINGS ... with shame over what some of those landmarks are called. A new state board mulling proposals to rename more than two dozen natural features has made addressing derogatory ...

Or, take an overnight trip out to Island Park: 90 miles (145 kilometers) northeast of Idaho Falls, the park has similar terrain and geographical phenomena to Yellowstone, its next-door neighbor.