The house is situated on the Snake River with excellent views of the river and wonderful morning and evening light. It is well furnished with tasteful furniture, comfortable beds, and the kitchen has the essentials. However, our first step into the house revealed an obviously uncleaned kitchen counter, littered with food residue. The floor was sticky, and most rooms had cobwebs, debris, and dead flies scattered about. Once we did some cleaning, we could enjoy the house, but aren't happy about paying a hefty cleaning fee.

The other disturbing thing about our visit was the frequent nuisance of the noxious odor from area feedlots and dairies. These large scale concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are ruining an area that has much to recommend it - lovely state parks, a national monument, thousands of springs (now almost entirely robbed of their natural flows), steep canyon walls, and the meandering Snake River. I worry because the water quality in the area has rising nitrogen levels from both the animal waste and fertilizers, as well as pesticides, pathogens, and pharmaceuticals (think of all the antibiotics given to cattle and then excreted onto the ground then seeping into the groundwater) according to DEQ reports. The headache produced by the odor is enough to insure that I will not return.