Eleven Mile Barn

By 1880, improvements to the Toll Road allowed a stage line to operate from Bonanza City to Challis. Several stations along the road served drivers and passengers, and Eleven Mile Barn was a stop where drivers could hitch up fresh horses and passengers could rest before continuing north over Mill Creek Summit or south to the Yankee Fork Mines. The daily stage run cost passengers $5.00 for a one-way trip, took 8-9 hours, and included three changes of fresh horses at Eleven Mile Barn, Toll Gate, and Slab Barn on Pine Summit. During the winter months, difficult travel conditions often forced travelers to make overnight stops on their way to and from Challis. In May 1880, the Yankee Ford Herald reported that passengers leaving Bonanza at 4 o'clock in the morning would reach Challis the same day about noon and arrive in Blackfoot at 8 p.m. the next day in time to take the south bound train.

Idaho · United States