BRUNEAU, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation and Bruneau Dunes State Park are ecstatic to announce that the park is now a designated dark sky park. The park was given certification by ...

BRUNEAU, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation announced Friday that Bruneau Dunes State Park has received the formal designation from Dark Sky International as an International Dark ...

BRUNEAU, Idaho — It may look like an empty desert, but Bruneau Dunes State Park has 400-foot-tall windswept sand, wide-open skies, and 4800 acres of nature with countless adventures and opportunities ...

Bruneau Dunes State Park continues to ascend. Located south of Mountain Home in Owyhee County — just over an hour southeast from downtown Boise — the park has been certified as an International Dark ...

BRUNEAU DUNES STATE PARK — Dunes Lake, located at Bruneau Dunes State Park has historically been a popular spring and summer fishery for largemouth bass and bluegill. Recent efforts to reestablish ...

Across the globe, only 125 parks in 22 countries have been designated International Dark Sky Parks since the program launched in 2001. These places commit to implement and maintain good outdoor ...

Bruneau Dunes State Park has similarities to Mars. Here, scientists set up a simulated NASA spacecraft to prepare for a future space exploration mission — as part of a conference held at Boise State ...

BRUNEAU — Without water pumped from the Snake River every winter, Bruneau Dunes State Park wouldn’t have the two lakes that attract waterfowl, coyotes and pronghorn and draw families for picnics, ...

The weather’s cooling down and one of the best hiking areas in fall is Bruneau Dunes State Park, south of Mountain Home. The dunes can be magical in the early morning on a crisp day in October and ...

Even in the doldrums of winter, when the nights stretch on and the days slip away in the blink of an eye, there's no reason to call it quits early. Those long, dark hours are your ticket to seeing ...

Image Credit: Charles Knowles, CC BY 2.0/Wiki Commons. Across the globe, only 125 parks in 22 countries have been designated International Dark Sky Parks since the program launched in 2001. These ...