POWELL, Idaho – The sign posted at U.S. Forest Service Trail 49 on the third day of the new year was nearly enough to prove their story true. Jerry Johnson Hot Springs had burned in the fire, they’d ...

Officials with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho are asking people to refrain from trying to dig out a new pool at the popular Jerry Johnson hot springs near Lolo Pass until they can determine how to ...

LOLO PASS, Idaho — Sometime in the last week, perhaps as recently as Saturday, floodwaters washed away the main soaking pool at the popular Jerry Johnson hot springs in Idaho.

Jerry Johnson Hot Springs had burned in the fire, they’d told me, their eyes full of sorrow and disbelief. The hot pots were gone. Nothing, they said, was left. The Forest Service sign telling of the ...