When you’re traveling, you love grabbing a window seat on the plane so that you can enjoy the views below. Chances are that if you do that enough, you’ll see one of these mysterious concrete arrows. There are dozens of them seemingly scattered around the United States, including in Idaho.
The one closet to Boise is about two miles south of Micron. Keep going another twenty miles and you’ll another past the Stage Stop. At over 50 feet long, they’re quite the sight. They’re old. They’re weathered. Nature has tried to reclaim a few of them. With many of these arrows located in remote deserts in the west, it’s only natural to wonder “Where did they come from?”
The arrows first appeared in the mid-1920s, long before pilots had access to technology like GPS or satellite to help them navigate their way across the United States. They had to rely on the ability to spot landmarks from the sky to make their way to their final destination. That was easy enough to do during the day, but after nightfall? Flying was nearly impossible…