AREA HISTORY

Council, Idaho, is a small farming, ranching, and logging community nestled in a valley at the base of the Cuddy Mountain Range approximately 124 miles northwest of Boise, Idaho, on US Highway 95. The community was founded in 1900 following the construction of the Pacific and Idaho Northern Railways to the mining and logging fields to the north.

You are immediately in timber country once you leave Council to the north, west, or east. Pioneers began calling the area Council Valley due to the large meetings of Native Americans. These gatherings were considered councils or counseling groups.

In 1882 the railroad was constructed; it brought people and supplies up from Weiser and helped develop the small communities known as Upper Valley in Washington and Adams Counties.

16 Mill Creek Ranch of the Upper Country | Council, Idaho