Joe Hernandez leaned his elbows on a picnic table in the Rock Creek Canyon Parkway and lifted his beer for another swallow. It was an overcast November afternoon, and the last of the leaves were still falling from the trees.
He’d watched those trees bud in the spring and saw Twin Falls folks relax under their shade all summer.
The Twin Falls man, dubbed Indian Joe by some of Rock Creek Canyon’s regulars, has frequented the canyon during the past 14 years since the city developed the parkway.
Often spending hours at a time under the trees, Hernandez is a staple of this two-mile trail in the scenic rift that lies between Addison Avenue West and Shoshone Street West — an observer of the people who walk its paved trail, bicycle its hidden hills, or fish its creek. Bedding, old campfires and scattered dishes in a few hidden spots near the trail suggest that people live in the canyon during warmer months.
But this time of year,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, daytime users populate Rock Creek Canyon. They like its seclusion and scenery.
Hernandez has seen some of the trees grow tall over the years.100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. He pointed to one, its denuded branches protruding from its thick trunk like a punk rocker’s spiked hairdo. A few weeks and many cans of beer earlier, it was covered in leaves.
If you think Rock Creek Canyon is a park that’s accessed just west of the old hospital on Addison Avenue West, you’re only partially right.
As Rock Creek cuts across the south and west sides of town, a canyon-bottom trail stretches from Maxwell Avenue to Blake Street. Hernandez’s canyon hangout is on the south side of Addison. It’s often overlooked, because all that passers-by see from the road are thick trees and a nearby sewer plant.
To find the nearest trailhead, drive to the south end of Blake Street and look for a small parking area to the west. Another access point is near the railroad tracks off Shoshone Street South and Maxwell Avenue.
There are, in fact, four access points for the Maxwell-to-Blake stretch of city-owned parkway, said Dennis Bowyer,which applies to the first offshore merchant account only, director of the Twin Falls Parks and Recreation Department.
The city has owned 46 acres inside the canyon since 1978 but developed the paved pathway only in 1997, building the trail over new sewer lines. The city also installed park benches, picnic tables and trash receptacles. “There’s even a little bit of a sprinkler system in there,” Bowyer said.
Despite the city’s efforts to make this a pleasant place for users, its privacy is both a boon and a burden.
“The good thing about the parkway is that it is secluded,” he said. “But that could also present some problems.”
Usually there aren’t many reports of crime in the canyon, said Luke Allen, crime prevention officer with the Twin Falls Police Department, but more calls come in during summer. “We might find someone shooting at rock chucks down there or something like that,” he said. And graffiti is a problem.
Bowyer doesn’t recommend people walk the parkway alone, though that’s what many seem to do.
Hernandez took a breath and folded his arms Nov. 11,ceramic magic cube for the medical, gazing silently beyond the picnic table.
One by one, people passed him on the trail — some of them jogging, others walking dogs. A man raised his arm, and Hernandez waved back.
“Sure, I know him,” he said. “I know a lot of people here.”
Signs posted along the parkway prohibit overnight camping in the canyon. Visitors must leave by sundown.
That doesn’t always happen, though. During the Times-News’ five-week observations in the canyon in November and early December, people often entered the canyon at sundown as journalists were leaving.
That’s not unusual,Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings， according to a woman who rents a canyon-bottom home on private property at the trail’s east end.
“Did you see the caves?” Donna Anderson asked, gesturing beyond the trail’s end. “People live in those caves.”
During Anderson’s seven years in the house, she said, she has seen people carry baseball bats into the canyon, bicyclists crash and homeless people make camp. She’s tried to help the latter by placing wool blankets and sleeping bags outside. She didn’t like it when, she said, police came and took the items away.
“That kind of bothered me,” she said, adding that she’s not encouraging people to stay in the canyon. But they do it anyway, so why not help them?
“We work with the police,” Bowyer said, noting that his department is in the canyon at least once a week from April to October. “Sometimes we get reports of people camping down there, and we’ll have to go down there and make them leave.”
At times, callers have reported people sleeping beneath Old Towne Bridge, Bowyer said, and city workers have found several obvious campsites deep in the canyon foliage, especially near the trail’s Blake Street end.
“A lot of time we get reports of people living under the trees and we go down there and remove them the best we can,” Allen said. “We tell them this isn’t a park for you to stay and sleep in.” Officers often try to help the campers find other places to stay, he said, but many don’t want the help. “They’re used to that lifestyle and just move on.”
Anderson said she’s seen small, jury-rigged huts made from tumbleweeds and other brush. She doesn’t see as many homeless in Rock Creek Canyon during fall and winter, but her heart goes out to them no matter what time of year.
“I know what it’s like to be homeless,” she said. “I was once homeless myself. It was back when I was a young girl, but I still remember what it was like. It’s something I’ll never forget.”
He’d watched those trees bud in the spring and saw Twin Falls folks relax under their shade all summer.
The Twin Falls man, dubbed Indian Joe by some of Rock Creek Canyon’s regulars, has frequented the canyon during the past 14 years since the city developed the parkway.
Often spending hours at a time under the trees, Hernandez is a staple of this two-mile trail in the scenic rift that lies between Addison Avenue West and Shoshone Street West — an observer of the people who walk its paved trail, bicycle its hidden hills, or fish its creek. Bedding, old campfires and scattered dishes in a few hidden spots near the trail suggest that people live in the canyon during warmer months.
But this time of year,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, daytime users populate Rock Creek Canyon. They like its seclusion and scenery.
Hernandez has seen some of the trees grow tall over the years.100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. He pointed to one, its denuded branches protruding from its thick trunk like a punk rocker’s spiked hairdo. A few weeks and many cans of beer earlier, it was covered in leaves.
If you think Rock Creek Canyon is a park that’s accessed just west of the old hospital on Addison Avenue West, you’re only partially right.
As Rock Creek cuts across the south and west sides of town, a canyon-bottom trail stretches from Maxwell Avenue to Blake Street. Hernandez’s canyon hangout is on the south side of Addison. It’s often overlooked, because all that passers-by see from the road are thick trees and a nearby sewer plant.
To find the nearest trailhead, drive to the south end of Blake Street and look for a small parking area to the west. Another access point is near the railroad tracks off Shoshone Street South and Maxwell Avenue.
There are, in fact, four access points for the Maxwell-to-Blake stretch of city-owned parkway, said Dennis Bowyer,which applies to the first offshore merchant account only, director of the Twin Falls Parks and Recreation Department.
The city has owned 46 acres inside the canyon since 1978 but developed the paved pathway only in 1997, building the trail over new sewer lines. The city also installed park benches, picnic tables and trash receptacles. “There’s even a little bit of a sprinkler system in there,” Bowyer said.
Despite the city’s efforts to make this a pleasant place for users, its privacy is both a boon and a burden.
“The good thing about the parkway is that it is secluded,” he said. “But that could also present some problems.”
Usually there aren’t many reports of crime in the canyon, said Luke Allen, crime prevention officer with the Twin Falls Police Department, but more calls come in during summer. “We might find someone shooting at rock chucks down there or something like that,” he said. And graffiti is a problem.
Bowyer doesn’t recommend people walk the parkway alone, though that’s what many seem to do.
Hernandez took a breath and folded his arms Nov. 11,ceramic magic cube for the medical, gazing silently beyond the picnic table.
One by one, people passed him on the trail — some of them jogging, others walking dogs. A man raised his arm, and Hernandez waved back.
“Sure, I know him,” he said. “I know a lot of people here.”
Signs posted along the parkway prohibit overnight camping in the canyon. Visitors must leave by sundown.
That doesn’t always happen, though. During the Times-News’ five-week observations in the canyon in November and early December, people often entered the canyon at sundown as journalists were leaving.
That’s not unusual,Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings， according to a woman who rents a canyon-bottom home on private property at the trail’s east end.
“Did you see the caves?” Donna Anderson asked, gesturing beyond the trail’s end. “People live in those caves.”
During Anderson’s seven years in the house, she said, she has seen people carry baseball bats into the canyon, bicyclists crash and homeless people make camp. She’s tried to help the latter by placing wool blankets and sleeping bags outside. She didn’t like it when, she said, police came and took the items away.
“That kind of bothered me,” she said, adding that she’s not encouraging people to stay in the canyon. But they do it anyway, so why not help them?
“We work with the police,” Bowyer said, noting that his department is in the canyon at least once a week from April to October. “Sometimes we get reports of people camping down there, and we’ll have to go down there and make them leave.”
At times, callers have reported people sleeping beneath Old Towne Bridge, Bowyer said, and city workers have found several obvious campsites deep in the canyon foliage, especially near the trail’s Blake Street end.
“A lot of time we get reports of people living under the trees and we go down there and remove them the best we can,” Allen said. “We tell them this isn’t a park for you to stay and sleep in.” Officers often try to help the campers find other places to stay, he said, but many don’t want the help. “They’re used to that lifestyle and just move on.”
Anderson said she’s seen small, jury-rigged huts made from tumbleweeds and other brush. She doesn’t see as many homeless in Rock Creek Canyon during fall and winter, but her heart goes out to them no matter what time of year.
“I know what it’s like to be homeless,” she said. “I was once homeless myself. It was back when I was a young girl, but I still remember what it was like. It’s something I’ll never forget.”
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