Bucket List
Below is a sampling of the most memorable and iconic Sun Valley experiences to check off your list!
- Hop in a helicopter and head out to get some of the lightest powder in the Rocky Mountains while Heli Skiing with Sun Valley Heliski Guides
- Wake up with the sun for an early morning hike out Adams Gulch
- Conquer the whitewater and raft the Payette or Salmon Rivers
- Play ‘Nanook of the Sawtooths’ and stay in a yurt
- Mountain bike on Fisher Creek at dusk or Corral Creek at sunrise
- Take in a moonlit ski or snowshoe and a savory dinner at Galena
- Participate in world-class Nordic skiing and enter the Boulder Mountain Tour
- Don a costume and tele-ski in style at the Hawaiian Nationals
- Take up ice hockey with free equipment at Christina Potter's Ice Rink
- Experience the stoke of heli-skiing with 50,000 untracked vertical in one day
- Take a picnic to the Sun Valley Pavilion and enjoy a Summer Symphony evening
- Go for a swim in the cool, clear waters of Redfish Lake
- Take the long way; hike up Bald Mountain and ride the chairlift down
- Get vertical and climb a peak in the Boulder, Sawtooth, White Cloud or Pioneer mountain ranges
- Get a bird’s-eye view and take a tandem paraglide flight off of Baldy
- Get your backcountry groove on and ski the Cross at Galena Pass
- Catch the otherworldly beauty of the spring flowers at Craters of the Moon
- Witness a natural wonder and fly fish during the brown or green drake hatch at Silver Creek
- Pretend you are an outlaw or the sheriff at one of the area's ghost towns like Custer or Bonanza
- Head to the Stanley basin and enjoy some quality beach time at Redfish, Stanley, Alturas, or Pettit Lakes
- Work on your short game on the world-class putting course at the Sun Valley Golf Clubhouse
- Find your own masterpiece in the local art galleries during a Friday night gallery walk
- Put on some skates and carve figure eights at Sun Valley’s year-round ice arena
- Get literary and check out the local stomping grounds and resting place of Ernest Hemingway
- Put your ego to the test and golf the nine-hole course at White Clouds
- Soak in Frenchman’s Bend hot springs in a snowstorm
- Go for some classic “star”-gazing of the celebrity photos in the Sun Valley Lodge
- Get some ten-pin glory and bowl at the Sun Valley Lodge
- Reenact your favorite scene from the Sound of Music and dance through alpine meadows of wildflowers
- Ride the gondola for views and a cocktail at Averell’s at the Roundhouse
- Celebrate history and watch the “Big Hitch” turn the corner during the Wagon Days parade
- Spot the black sheep among the thousands of wooly walkers during the Trailing of the Sheep parade
- Live the mountain bike culture and spend your week at the Ride Sun Valley Festival
- Take a guided mountain bike tour of some of Sun Valley’s world-class singletrack trails
- Grab some friends and inner tube the Big Wood River once the water is down
- Find your game with Leroy's ice cream and a round of ping pong in the Ketchum Town Square
- Take the boat across Redfish Lake and discover the place locals call “Shangri La”
- Travel back in time and tour the Ketchum Sun Valley Ski and History Museum
- Immerse yourself in the world of mini-golf and enter the Ketchum Wide Open
- Truly discover the spirit of the holiday and attend all the Sun Valley Christmas activities
- Saddle up and head ‘em out on a trail ride in the local mountains
- Get vertical with a guided rock climbing excursion to one of the various local crags
- Feel the glow of a great day skiing with the quality après Sun Valley is famous for
