You don’t have to stray far from Willow Creek Road before the world goes quiet.
From the top of one of the more than a dozen ridges of what was once a ranch, you can catch views of Bogus Basin, birds of prey circling overhead, and views of hills beyond hills clear to Oregon. It’s nearly silent, with only the occasional sound of a plane passing overhead or the wind ruffling the sagebrush.
This could be a hill deep in Idaho’s miles of high desert wilderness, except for the downtown Boise skyline visible in the far distance…