Lowman, Idaho

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Lowman is a small rural community in the central part of the U.S. state of Idaho, nestled along the banks of the South Fork of the Payette River in Boise County.

The town is situated at the junction of Highway 21, eighty miles from Boise and what will formerly be known as the Banks-Lowman highway; the name of this stretch of road will be known as Highway 2512A.

The "Highway to Heaven" trail, stretching more than 150 miles from Idaho's capital of Boise, is the only mountain passage in the West that begins from a major city. The trail winds from 8th Street in Boise across gentle pine slopes leading to Idaho City, then switches back to Lowman and on toward the Sawtooths.

This small community is also settled in geothermal heaven. Natural hot springs surface right in town, and in many other places in the surrounding mountains. The surrounding Boise National Forest and nearby Sawtooth Wilderness offer countless recreational opportunities such as snowmobiling, horseback trail riding, motorcycle trail riding, 4x4 trails, hiking, camping, fishing, natural hotspring hot-tubbing, gold panning and prospecting, rock & gem collecting, rock-climbing, spelunking, and, of course, photography.

The community was named for a homesteader, Nathaniel Winfield Lowman, from Polk County, Iowa.