Where I live

Terreton, Idaho is located in Eastern Idaho. To find it on a map 1st find Rexburg then go west toward Salmon on Highway 33. Terreton/Mud Lake (names are interchangeable mostly) is about 45 miles from Rexburg. It is also about 45 miles from Idaho Falls which is South/east on Interstate I-15.

Terreton is the name of the town where the main post office is located, it not an official town, the official town is Mud Lake. The only bank is in Mud Lake. There is only about 2 miles between the 2 places. And Monteview, another area with a post office (and where our farm is) is about 10 more miles. You can tell someone you live "in" Monteview and be 50 miles from the post office lol.

The rest of the businesses in the area are; tire/motorsports store, hardware store/equipment dealer, dentist & doctor office, feed store, 2 gas stations 1 has pizza shop inside , pellet mill (makes hay pellets for feed) 2 bars, 2 cafe-diners, equipment repair shop, autobody shop, auto repair/paint shop, another equipment dealer, daycare, woodfloor manufacture, and a fertilizer dealer. Think that is everybody, opps there is also a greenhouse/florist down the road a bit and another greenhouse in Monteview. There is also the schools, a public library, Mud Lake City building with the ambulance garage , firehouse (they are building a new one) and the District health office-open 1 day per week. 4 churches as well. We have a telephone co-op you buy stock when you get a phone then they pay back dividends after 10 years it is great!!! They also provide out internet service. The office is located in Dubois 60 miles away.

Can you tell the main thing out here is farming. Most farmers here raise alfalfa hay, grain-wheat, oats, or barley, some potatoes and corn. There are also several midsized dairies and a few smaller ones. There is also beef cattle raised on most farms and a few ranchers have quite a few.

Notice no grocery store, there was one but it closed about 9 months ago. The store in Roberts which was about 20 miles recently closed as well, so the closest grocery store is 45 miles. The gas stations do stock milk and snacks but plan ahead for anything else.

We have a very nice view of the Sawtooth mountains to the West. Great sunsets like the one pictured that I took a few years ago. It is a very nice place to live.