Fireworks light up the sky as the giant potato is lowered to celebrate the arrival of 2022 at the Idaho Potato Drop in downtown Boise by the state Capitol. Sarah A. Miller smiller@idahostatesman ...

Blackfoot, now home to the Idaho Potato Museum, benefited from rich volcanic soil and an irrigated river valley, making it the perfect place to grow enormous crops of potatoes. During World War II ...

The Idaho Potato Drop is an unusual way of observing New Year’s Eve in Boise, Idaho. This celebration consists of a huge fiberglass potato that is dropped at midnight of the new year.

Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Boise to see the infamous Idaho Potato descend from the sky to ring in 2025.