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Ketchum, a year-round recreation area, is a gateway to the Sawtooth
Recreation Area, and to the internationally renowned ski resort, Sun
Valley.
The main road to Sun Valley passes through Ketchum. It has grown right
alongside its glamorous neighbor to provide summer and winter amenities for
vacationers. Most notably the River Run access to Bald Mountain lies within
walking distance of downtown Ketchum
While township was transformed by
having Sun Valley located adjacent to it; Ketchum has retained its own
Western pioneer charm, particularly along Main Street. Here modern art
galleries, boutiques and restaurants are mixed with the original brick
buildings.
History
Historically, Ketchum has swung
through a series of fortunes. After the Bannock Wars, and under the impetus
of the silver and lead mining boom it was founded in 1880. The town of
Ketchum was soon one of the richest mining districts in the Northwest. At
the Ore Wagon Museum you can see the high, narrow Lewis Ore Wagons that were
used to haul the tens of millions of dollars’ worth of silver and lead
from the outlying mines to the Wood River Valley smelters. In the annual
Wagon Days parade held on Labor Day weekend, you can see these wagons
trundling through the streets of Ketchum.
At the end of the mining boom a
decade later, Ketchum’s economic energy shifted with just as much gusto
to sheep-ranching. Basque sheepherders found fine summer grazing in the
Sawtooth, Boulder and Pioneer Mountains. By 1920 Ketchum was the
second-largest sheep and lamb shipping station after Sydney, Australia.
Continuing signs of this once important sheep migration route can still be
found in the annual trailing of the sheep throughout the Wood River Valley
in the fall.
Ketchum’s year round population
had dwindled to about 200, when the township received its latest revival
in the form of Sun Valley, and then developed to play host to a tourist
clientele. This included a lively gambling scene until it was completely
outlawed in 1954.
Name
Named after David
Ketchum, a free spirit whose resume epitomizes the wild west; trapper and
guide, mountaineer, and experienced pack train man.
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