Table Rock Road Fire

Sparked by illegal fireworks the blaze burned and blackened the sagebrush covered landscape.

Table rock road fire.

Sitting on the western lip of it is a usfs fire lookout station that is staffed through the fire season late june september. The road getting to table rock is very bumpy and it takes a long time to get to the parking area. A grass fire that burned about a half acre along table rock road near wildhorse lane late monday afternoon was human caused according to boise fire department investigators but they can t say. It s been a year since last june s table rock fire in the boise foothills destroyed 2 500 acres of wildlife habitat.

The pit toilet was disgusting and didn t even have toilet paper. Table rock is an outstanding geologic feature of columbia river basalt at 6 250 feet on the eastern edge of the mill creek watershed. The hike itself was very pretty though and i m glad we did it but if i were in the area again i would choose a different hike. Firefighters say the table rock fire was caused by someone lighting fireworks.

The table rock fire scorched 2 600 acres of the boise foothills and threatened hundreds of homes sending fire crews scrambling to contain the flames that raced up one hillside and down the next. Over the last 12 months a group of people and agencies have worked to restore the area. Resident taylor kemp said he. A brush fire approaching 2 500 acres near table rock has destroyed a home and another structure in the boise foothills.