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Ketchum Main Street

About Ketchum

Ketchum sits in a narrow valley in the mountains of Central Idaho on the banks of the Wood River at its confluence with Trail Creek. It was founded on August 2, 1880 as a remote mining town. In 1936, the Sun Valley Resort was developed just east of Ketchum, it began a transformation to the resort town that Ketchum is today. The streets of the town are lined with shops of every kind as tourists fill the streets.

Idaho Highway 75 serves Ketchum, following the Wood River Valley, and connecting it to Hailey to the south. It passes through Ketchum on a diagonal, heading northwest and southeast, and all the grid of streets is laid out parallel to it. Sun Valley Road intersects it at the center of town and heads northeast into Sun Valley.

Ski slopes cover the sides of the mountain on two sides of Ketchum. Bald Mountain is to the southwest of town, and Dollar Mountain to the east. The pattern of grassy ski slopes passing through the dark green of evergreen trees makes them easy to distinguish from a distance.

The elevation at Ketchum is 5,853 feet, and the population was 3,003 in the year 2000. The town has grown steadily since the 1970s.

For More Information:
See Wikipedia's Ketchum article, the city website at ketchumidaho.org, and the Sun Valley/Ketchum Chamber & Visitors Bureau.

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Street Index

East Avenue Eighth Street Fifth Street First Avenue First Street Fourth Street

Leadville Avenue Main Street River Street Second Avenue Second Street Seventh Street

Sixth Street Spruce Avenue Sun Valley Road Walnut Avenue Washington Avenue