Glenns Ferry, Idaho (Boise, Twin Falls, Mountain Home: for sale, real estate, apartment complexes)

[wilkermoo]

Can anybody give me some an idea of what it is like to live in Glenns Ferry, ID. Is this a small town? Is there much to do there? Is there a lot of stores or would you have to travel outside the area if you needed something like a Target or Walmart or Costco?
My husbands company has offered him a position and I just found out that it is now going to be near Glenns Ferry, they had orignially thought Washington. I am not finding much about the area at all. I pulled up homes for sale at realtor.com and I only got 4 listings.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[my3arabs]

I live aobut 55 miles from Glenn's Ferry. It is very very small. I am pretty sure that you would have to travel to Mountain Home or Twin Falls to get any of the stores that you mentioned.

Here in Buhl, we are just 20 miles west of Twin and we have all of those stores. Mountain Home has the WalMart but I haven't been into down town for a long time, just through it on the interstate.

My ex and my husband now had to stay there for a long time building the interstate through there in '94. It really hasn't changed much since then. If you like a very small town then that is the place to be.

Most of the lil towns between Twin Falls and Boise are pretty depressed without very many of the stores that the larger cities have. Mountain Home has been growing like crazy and thanks to the Air Base there there is more to do than Glenns Ferry.

I would move there in a heart beat but I love the small small towns of ID and the fishing on the river etc...

[wilkermoo]

my3arabs, thank you for the information. I like small towns, but it sounds like Glenns Ferry might be smaller than I would like. Is the town of Buhl close enough to Glenns Ferry to commute? What do you think of living in Buhl, is it a family oriented kind of town? Is there affordable housing and homes with land (2-3 acres)

Thanks again!

[my3arabs]

There is affordable land here for sure,haha. The commute would be too far for me. It is 50.8 miles from Buhl to Glenns Ferry. You would be better off and much closer in Mountain Home it is only 27.1 miles away. Plus Mt. Home is really growing so I am sure that they have more sotres now than when I last spent any time in town.

I don't know a whole lot about Mt. Home, just that it is real windy there and can get very hot in the summer. And of course the Air Base is there too.

[my3arabs]

I'm sorry but I forgot to say that the mileage is pretty much right on. I have the PC Miler program that we use in the trucking industry. So if you need any more miles let me know, hahaha.

[aelwero]

I grew up in Glenns Ferry. From what you are saying in your post there, I would HIGHLY recommend mountain home! There are three stores that I remember, but it's been a while so the names have probably changed. One was an IGA, the Supermarket in town, (about 1/3 the size of you typical albertsons), the other was a "general store" type of place right in the middle of town. The third is a little country store that sells home-made fudge (vanilla-huckleberry fudge... you should drive there just for that... wow). Oh yeah, and there was a hardware store downtown I forgot about... right, that pretty much sums it up. There's a cafe/motel on the main street, used to be called Hanson's, but I remember them changing the name o that place more often than they changed the frier oil, so it probably isn't hanson's. there were a few bars, a little burger joint out by the school called the "stop sign" and the fair/rodeo grounds. There's a state park out at 3 island crossing, and a city park, which my cousin tells me now has a public pool. you got a smattering of churches here and there, the biggest being the LDS up the hill a ways. There are maybe 4 apartment complexes in town and a creek. My grandmother tells me that they currently have no city law enforcement an dthat they fall under county coverage. That pretty much sums it up... all of it... There are no major "chain" type stores and no shopping except for groceries. There are no traffic lights that I remember either, other than one or two out by the school. The roads are paved and the sidewalks are kept up pretty well by the residents. It's a really quiet place to live where eveybody knows everybody, and if you don't mind sitting on the porch, it'd probably be a perfect place to retire, and I imagine you'll catch me sitting on a porch up there somewhere within the next 15 years or so, once I get done with doin this Army thing I got going. It's pretty much the perfect place for me, but if you'd be interested in anything I haven't mentioned in this post, you'll find it 28 miles west in Mountain Home.

[aelwero]

Haven't been up that way in a little over 5 years, and then was only a very short visit, but it was basically the same place it always was, and you're more than welcome to post any questions about it, what I can't answer from memory I can ask around for ya. I've still got a bit of family up that way

[bbird]

If you are looking for a place that you can raise your kids, GF would be great. It's true that you have to drive for major stores, shopping etc. but Mt. Home is about 20 minutes away, TF is less than an hour and Jerome 40 minutes.

I grew up there too. The athletic and school system is pretty good. very small, but sometimes that is a plus.

As for real estate, there is several companies in GF. lots of properties.
google, glenns ferry and see what it's all about.

[crazydazy1]

I have lived in GF my whole life.. We dont have a major store. The closest is Mountain Home. They have Wal-mart, Pauls,Albertsons mny dollar stores and dollar trees. I found GF rather boring. Everyone knows eveyone. Not good cops. Yeah Its my home town but still love it.

[citygirlatheart]

re: moving to Glenns Ferry
I grew up there and would not reccomend it unless you like really small towns. or if you like to run to the grocery store everyday (you'll just find the basics there) or like to go to Walmart often (nothing there). It's 27 miles to Mountain Home and 60 miles to Boise. Your husband could maybe commute from Mountain home if he doesn't mind driving a half hour each way. I would recommend visiting before you sign on the dotted line!