Soda Springs
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brwhiz
N 42° 39.469 W 111° 37.561
12T E 448692 N 4723007
This is one of two Idaho Historical Markers in a turnout at the western edge of Soda Springs on US Highway 30/Idaho Highway 34.
Waymark Code: WMJNZY
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 12/10/2013
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Soda Springs
In this area a group of springs famous to Oregon Trail travelers, most of whom stopped to try the "acid taste and effervessing gasses" of the waters.
Earlier, fur traders often--less elegantly--called the place "Beer Springs" after one spring whose water tasted "like lager beer...only flat." Another, Steamboat Spring, made sounds "exactly resembling...a high pressure steam engine. Both springs are now drowned in the modern reservoir, but others still can be tasted.