{"id":11583,"date":"2026-02-09T08:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11583"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:26:29","slug":"public-lands-idahos-great-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=11583","title":{"rendered":"Public Lands – Idaho’s Great Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And within it lies something just as remarkable: the Great Rift \u2014 a chain of deep volcanic cracks and fissures stretching across the landscape.
\nAccording to the Bureau of Land Management, it\u2019s considered one of the largest and most recently formed volcanic rift systems on land in the continental United States.
\n\u201cAt 635 square miles, it is considered to be the largest, deepest, and most recent volcanic rift system in the continental United States,\u201d the agency notes. \u201cMany of Idaho\u2019s most fascinating geological features lie along this potential wilderness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Idaho\u2019s Great Rift is one of only a few known volcanic rift systems of its kind on Earth. Another, far more expansive rift, stretches from Ethiopia to Mozambique in eastern Africa.
\n\u201cThe Great Rift System is a volcanic rift zone that consists of eruptive fissures, cinder cones and other volcanic vents, non-eruptive fissures, and faults confined to a narrow belt,\u201d the National Park Service\u2019s website notes. \u201cMost of the recent volcanic activity on the Snake River Plain is located along volcanic rift zones, which trend roughly perpendicular to the axis of the Snake River Plain.\u201d
\nThe Great Rift begins at Craters of the Moon \u2014 the northernmost lava field. The rift cuts down over 50 miles southeast from the Pioneer Mountains, landing at the Wapi Lava Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And within it lies something just as remarkable: the Great Rift \u2014 a chain of deep volcanic cracks and fissures stretching across the landscape. According to the Bureau of Land Management, it\u2019s considered one of the largest and most recently formed volcanic rift systems on land in the continental United States. \u201cAt 635 square miles, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11585,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions\/11585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}