Payette River Scenic Byway — Boise to McCall

Highway 55 is Idaho’s great near-town ride: the road hugs the Payette River through Class III-IV whitewater canyons — rafters all summer, steelhead runs in fall — past the Banks junction where the North Fork climbs, through the long farm flats of Long Valley at Cascade and Donnelly, to the lakeside resort town of McCall under the 9,000-foot Salmon River mountains. Wide sweepers in the canyon, straights in the valley, and Boise’s weekend crowd to outrun.