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![Boise](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Boise%2C_Idaho.jpg)

# Boise

Boise is the capital and most populous city in the U.S.

[Plan a trip to Boise](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Boise) [From Portland](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Portland&to=Boise)

## Every way there

- Portland → Boise 3 km · quickest by road, 9 min · $0.5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/portland-to-boise) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Portland&to=Boise)
- Spokane → Boise 460 km · quickest by air, 3h 25m · $150–230 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/spokane-to-boise) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Spokane&to=Boise)
- Salt Lake City → Boise 476 km · quickest by road, 5h 50m · $44–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/salt-lake-city-to-boise) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Salt+Lake+City&to=Boise)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Boise, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Boise](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/boise)

What Boise has

- Y Scheduled flights Boise (BOI), 6 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

43.616°, -116.202°

state of Idaho. It is the county seat of Ada County. The population of the city was 235,685 at the 2020 census. The Boise metropolitan area, located in the Treasure Valley, includes five counties of Idaho with an estimated population of 846,000, the most populous metropolitan area in Idaho and 95th-most populous in the United States.

How locals move

## Getting around Boise the local way

- Go next northeast from Boise via State Highway 21, Idaho City makes for a good day trip from Boise.

From [Wikivoyage: Boise](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Boise), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise%2C_Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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