Ritter Island

Ritter Island

Purchased by Salt Lake City business woman, Minnie Miller, in 1918, Ritter Island was known in the early days as a demonstration dairy farm.  Millie's vision was to raise world-class Guernsey cattle, which she succeeded in doing.  Recognized as the finest Guernsey's in the world, her cattle were featured numerous times in agricultural and popular magazines of the day.  Now, Ritter Island is a state park within the Thousand Springs State Park Complex allowing visitors onto her famous island to wander through the grounds past Millie's lava stone house, her vineyard and through her dairy barns of the 1920's complete with all her fixtures and tools.  This well-preserved piece of Idaho history sits along the Snake River and is surrounded by natural springs and waterfalls bursting from the basalt lava canyon.

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