Grangeville downtown & Border Days

Grangeville grew in the 1870s–80s as the Camas Prairie’s service centre, platted among the prairie’s homesteads and named for the local grange; the county seat moved here in the 1880s, and the 1900s brick downtown blocks survive on the main street. Border Days — the town’s Fourth-of-July celebration — has run since 1900s–1910s and claims to be Idaho’s oldest rodeo and celebration, drawing the prairie’s families home each summer. The town’s Bicentennial museum interprets the prairie, the Nez Perce war sites and the canyon country, and Grangeville is now the standard gateway to the Hells Canyon overlook road through the Seven Devils. Border Days has run its Fourth-of-July programme — parade, rodeo, the street dances — since the early 1900s and claims to be Idaho’s oldest such celebration; the town’s Bicentennial museum interprets the prairie, the Nez Perce war sites and the canyon country, and Grangeville is now the standard gateway to the Hells Canyon overlook road through the Seven Devils.