Great location for an overnight stay between SLC and Yellowstone. Took a free tour of the Paris, Idaho Tabernacle, ate in Paris at the cutest antique store with homemade soup, sandwiches and pizza at a bargain price, then saw sandhill cranes and whitefaced ibis as we drove past the bird sanctuary on our way into Montepelier. Super 8 was sold out of the rooms we needed so we had reserved two nonsmoking rooms at Cloverleaf. We were pleasantly surprised to spend 25% less than we would have acrossed the street and we got a hot breakfast as well. I ate the waffles, grandpa had hot oatmeal, grandma had hot cocoa and minimuffins, the kids loved the biscuits and gravy, and my husband ate cereal and toast. I liked the guava-(passionfruit?) juice and liked having three juice choices. It was also nice to have filtered water.

We took the kids to the nearby playgrounds. Both were less than a block away. One NW at the Elementary the other NE behind the museum. We all enjoyed the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers museum and hope to have the time to go through the Oregon Trails museum on the next trip. There is also an Artic Circle with playplace two doors down from the Clover Creek Inn..

Our room had been updated with a new bed and a cute comforter and decorator pillows. We were able to park outside our door which we found convenient to Grandpa's handicap room. We met the owners who were a cute couple with baby. It turned out that their parents knew ours and got to talk about the old days. I liked it that there was a TV in the breakfast room. I would definately stay there again.

We met a young couple who were preparing for the Idaho bike trek (can't remember its official title) and drove highway 34 through Strawberry canyon at their urging. It was beautiful to take that scenic trip North through Grace, Idaho. We stopped at the Carabou County Fair and returned there later in the week for the rodeo. It was a wonderful trip. Breakfast at the Emmet hotel and museum across from the geyser in Idaho Springs and a few hours in Historic Chesterfield with milkshakes in an old time sodafountain in Bannock made for our best sidetrips ever on our third year in a row trip to Yellowstone. Idaho scenic roads rock!!!