Garden Valley

Garden Valley is a small community in Boise County, Idaho, in the mountains along the South Fork Payette River. The database lists aquamarine as the specimen here, and there is a real, documented Garden Valley Mining District in the mindat locality database — but the aquamarine sourcing is thin, tracing back mainly to an early-1900s reference tying beryl to nearby Centerville, also in Boise County, rather than to Garden Valley itself. Boise County has a genuine history of gem-quality mineral production (most famously star garnet country isn't far off, and pegmatite deposits do occur regionally), so an aquamarine occurrence here is plausible, but it isn't independently confirmed by a current, site-specific source.

UNVERIFIED — no specific access point is documented. Garden Valley is reached via ID-55 and Banks-Lowman Road, along the South Fork Payette River in Boise County.

UNVERIFIED. No method or current access status is documented for this specific locality.

Land status is unverified — confirm ownership and permission before visiting. Boise County around Garden Valley is a mix of Boise National Forest (USFS) land and private/patented mining claims, common in historic Idaho mining districts — standard USFS personal-use collecting rules would apply on national forest land, but private claims are closed to collecting without the claim holder's permission.