Boise Little Theatre
For 60 years Boise Little Theater has produced plays in all genres: contemporary and classical, comedy, drama and musicals. It also produces children's theater as part of its regular season and co-produces a summer youth theater workshop with Boise's Department of Parks and Recreation. BLT is an all volunteer non-profit organization with an unwavering dedication to amateur theatrical quality. It is one of the longest running community theaters in America.

Boise Peak Fitness
For This is the largest rock climbing gym in the Northwest, with 6,000 feet of total climbing wall space, which features sculptured foam providing real rock shapes. Facility has 13,000 square feet of indoor climbing terrain on two levels, 50 top ropes and lead routes to choose from, and over 150 climbing routes. Two towers reach to ceiling height of 43 feet, plus three arches, huge bouldering cave, cardio and weight training equipment, and weights. Spacious locker room with showers. Climbing pro-shop.

Boise Peak Fitness has long routes (up to 43') to build endurance, several training classes to help you improve technique, and routes are changed on a regular basis to provide new challenges. Rock climbing is an ideal activity for birthday parties for kids and other special occasions. Boise Peak Fitness offers a variety of parties and group events, each one guaranteed to be a memorable and fun experience.

Boise Philharmonic
World class conductors and artists grace the stage for the Boise Philharmonic audience, which performs classical theatre and musicals, as they showcase their passion for music and the musical drama of the orchestra. They currently are in a search for a new musical director, and each concert for the 2008 season will have a different conductor-candidate.

As Idaho's largest and oldest performing arts organization, the Boise Philharmonic performs for over 50,000 people annually. Each concert is performed in Boise and Nampa, the Morrison Center on Saturday nights (Boise), and the Swayne Auditorium on Friday nights (Nampa), as well as other venues around the state. The 70-member professional orchestra traces its roots to earlier than 1885 with the formation of the Boise City Orchestra.

Capitol Racing at Les Boise
Enjoy live Horse Racing at Les Bois Park, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Enjoy the many improvements in the Turf Club, Clubhouse, Grandstand, barn area and track. Along with great racing, enjoy an expanded menu and new souvenir shop. For more live horse racing information and reservations, please visit their web site.

Fast Lane Indoor Kart Racing
Fast Lane is a paved indoor kart circuit located in Boise, Idaho. Race with your friends or family!

Idaho Basque Museum
Located in downtown Boise, Idaho, the Basque Museum & Cultural Center provides a look into the heritage of the Basque communities of Idaho and surrounding areas. Boise, Idaho has long been a central location where Basque immigrants first congregated after coming to the United States from the Spanish Basque Region. As immigrants established their lives here, Basques became well known for their hard work and perseverance.

The Basque Museum & Cultural Center provides a look into the rich and colorful history of the Basques by exhibits, collections, and tours. As a cultural center, it's a gathering place for events and educational opportunities - in which people of all backgrounds can participate in Basque activities.

Idaho Botanical Garden
The Garden is a living museum, dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of gardening, horticulture and conservation, through plant collections and education programs within an aesthetic landscape.

The Garden leases 33 acres from the State of Idaho, of which 13.5 acres are currently under cultivation. Seventeen acres of state endowment lands, not for cultivation, are used for nature hikes and environmental education. The Idaho Botanical Garden is a private, non-profit corporation existing without state or federal funding. The Garden is completely dependent on tax-deductible contributions from community-minded citizens, corporations, foundations, and site leasing. Fourteen gardens have been designed and cultivated since 1984.

Idaho Historical Museum
The Museum is located in Julia Davis Park, just off Capitol Boulevard. Free parking is available at the front of the building.

Idaho IceWorld
Idaho IceWorld is Idaho's premier indoor family ice skating and entertainment center. It offers adult and youth hockey leagues, figure skating programs, lessons, and public skate sessions. It is located just off I-84 at the Gowen Road Exit next to the Boise Factory Outlet Mall.
Amenities include two NHL regulation size ice rinks, a large banquet/event facility, a catering kitchen, an arcade, restaurants, and much more.

Cutting Edge Sports, Idaho IceWorld's official pro shop, carries a complete line of figure skating and ice hockey equipment.

Idaho Stampede
The Idaho Stampede are a basketball team that play in the NBA Development League. Based in the Boise, Idaho area, they play at the Qwest Arena, as of 2005.
The Idaho Stampede are the official NBA affiliate to the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle SuperSonics. They tip-off their 10th Anniversary season, and second in the NBA Development League, in November. Season tickets for the reigning Western Division Champions during the 2007-08 season start at only $195 per seat or just over five dollars per game and include the 2008 NBA D-League Showcase.

Majestic Movie Theatre
The Majestic Cinemas in Meridian Idaho is the Treasure Valley's newest state-of-the-art movie theater with 18 movie screens with select theaters showing the highest quality 2k digital movies. It features DLP Dolby digital cinema, stadium seating, and rocking chairs. You may buy tickets on-line, too. Birthday party packages for kids are also available for $15 per guest. These include: a private party room for one hour either before or after the movie; movie admission (your choice of a current movie for your group); reserved seating in the theater; a soda, a popcorn and a candy for each guest (hot dogs are available at $2); and, a party coordinator to help while in the party room. Morning parties and classic movies are available at an additional charge. Minimum of ten guests per party, with a $25 non-refundable deposit required to hold date. Contact theater manager at (208) 893-5028 to make arrangements or for more details.

Meridian Speedway
Meridian Speedway is a 1/4 mile semi-banked, asphalt-paved oval located near Meridian, Idaho for racing of Bandolero cars, Stock cars, and Sprint cars. The facility also has a 1/8 mile low banked dirt oval for Sprints, Go-Karts, and Speedway Cycle racing events.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts
Located on the campus of Boise State University, the Morrison Center is proud to be the resident venue for the following Boise-based Performing Arts Companies: Boise Philharmonic Association, Ballet Idaho, Opera Idaho, and Boise State University's Departments of Music and Theatre. It has hosted such greats as Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Harry Bellefonte, Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, David Copperfield, Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain and Josh Groban's 1st U.S. tour. The hit Broadway show Miss Saigon had a two-week run in the Center, and numerous other Broadway productions have been here as part of the Center's Broadway in Boise series since 1997 that include; Jesus Christ Superstar; Annie; Cats; Chicago; Rent; and most recently the international mega hit Mamma Mia!.

Old Idaho Penitentiary
Idaho Territory was less than ten years old when the territorial prison was built east of Boise in 1870. The penitentiary grew from a single cell house into a complex of several distinctive buildings surrounded by a high sandstone wall. Convicts quarried the stone from the nearby ridges and completed all the later construction.

Over its century of operation, the penitentiary received more than 13,000 convicts, of whom 215 were women. Spurred in part by conditions that sparked a general riot in 1971 and an even more severe riot in 1973, the inmate population was moved to a modern penitentiary south of Boise and the Old Idaho Penitentiary was closed on December 3, 1973. After the Penitentiary closed in 1973, the site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Qwest Arena
Qwest Arena is the most original indoor sports and events arena in the Northwest. Located in the heart of downtown Boise, Qwest Arena is just steps away from shopping, restaurants and local businesses. Qwest Arena has bowl seating for 5,000 people, 39 entertainment suites and additional seating on the arena floor dependant upon event staging. Home of the Idaho Steelheads (hockey), the Boise Burn (football) and the Idaho Stampede (basketball), Qwest Arena hosts a variety of special events including concerts, trade shows, conventions, ice shows and other sporting events.

The Qwest Arena features 39 suites, including 20 Executive Suites located on the 2nd floor of the Grove Hotel and 19 Founder Suites on the 3rd floor that overlook the arena. Each suite is equipped with a closed circuit television, a terrace with balcony seating in the arena and also personalized food and beverage service during live sporting events, concerts and family entertainment.

Taco Bell Arena
Taco Bell Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. It is the home of the Boise State Broncos of the Western Athletic Conference. Current seating capacity is 12,820 for basketball.

Its central location between major markets (Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas) makes Taco Bell Arena the perfect venue to host national events and major concert tours. The city of Boise provides an accessible location for residents from Idaho, Eastern Oregon and Northern Nevada to experience the best in entertainment and cultural events.

Treasure Valley Rollergirls
Women's roller derby is an American-invented contact sport based on formation roller skating around an oval track. Imagine a hockey game, but replace the ice with a roller rink. Swap out the baggy jerseys for fishnet hose and tank tops, and abandon ordinary names in favor of pseudonyms like Tanya Hyde and Demi Gore. What you have is a reasonable facsimile of women's roller derby. The scoring is completely different, but both sports are rowdy, raucous and sometimes punctuated with fights between the players. Unlike professional hockey players, the vast majority of roller derby participants are unpaid. Most actually spend money on the sport -- they purchase their own equipment and pay monthly dues to support their leagues. Teams usually practice several times a week, and injuries are common.

The roller derbies take place on a circuit track. The two teams playing send five players each onto the track - three blockers (defense), one pivot (last line of defense) and one jammer (scorer). Helmet covers are used to display the players' positions: a striped cover is used for pivots, a cover with two stars is used for jammers, and no cover is used for blockers.

Pivots and blockers from both teams start the game by forming a single pack. In a pack, all players face counterclockwise. The pivots line up next to each other, followed by a layer of four blockers, followed by a layer of two blockers. The two jammers, who are not considered to be part of the pack, are positioned 20 feet behind the pack. At this point, no differentiation need be made between the two teams; as long as the pack formation is as described above, it does not matter if the team members are interspersed randomly in the pack.

There are two 20 minute bouts. Each team is trying to stay inside the lines of the track and outscore their opponents.

The Treasure Valley Rollergirls are a not-for-profit league, who give a portion of all ticket sales to local charities. League members also participate in community service. In 2007 they were featured on KTVB Channel 7 in Boise, and on the TV station's web site is a short news video one can watch. Here's the link: KTVB

 

Western Idaho Fair
Expo Idaho is home to the Western Idaho Fair, one of a few Fairs in the Pacific Northwest that can boast about conducting an annual event in three different centuries, with the first Fair in 1897. The Western Idaho Fair still focuses on agriculture and family fun. You can expect to see the finest Idaho livestock and competitive exhibits of any State Fair in the Pacific Northwest. This nine-day affair in late August offers a variety of events, games, rides, live entertainment, food courts, trade shows, a rodeo and much more. Usual annual attendance reaches 260,000. Past Grandstand shows have included entertainers such as the Statler Brothers, Dwight Yoakum, Neal McCoy, Charlie Daniels Band, REO Speedwagon, Josh Turner and Creedence Clearwater Revival, just to name a few. Offering a purely Idaho experience, fairgoers can wander through animal exhibits admiring prize-winning pigs or climb aboard gravity-defying rides.

Throughout the rest of the year, Expo Idaho hosts concerts, home shows, flea markets, roller derby bouts, spa, pool and BBQ shows, sportsman shows, state gymnastics, ski, snowboard and snowmobile shows, Christmas shows, job expos, golf shows, gem shows, horse shows, RV shows, gun shows, new and used car shows, dairy and pygmy goat shows, dog shows, garage sale shows, pet expos, and health and fitness shows.