Don’t Stop In This Idaho Town If You Need Flowers (Opinion)
I was coming home from a trip to Yellowstone National Park on Sunday and had to make two stops in southeastern Idaho, so my wife could lay flowers on the gravesites of relatives. One planned detour was in Ashton, and the other in Archer.
Flowers are a must when visiting the gravesites of deceased loved ones. My wife had never been to the final resting places of her grandmother and aunt on her dad's side, so we planned to make two stops on the way back from Island Park.
We figured it wouldn't be too hard to find some flowers near the first location we were stopping at, Pineview Cemetery, in Ashton, Idaho, which has a population of roughly 1,000 people, according to landprodata. It turns out we were dead wrong.
There Are No Places To Buy Flowers In Ashton, Idaho
We were unable to find flowers anywhere in Ashton. Even the clerk at a market told us the best thing to do was to drive to the next town (St. Anthony), which was 10 minutes away.
Ashton has a funeral home, but nowhere to buy flowers. They do have a farmer's market on Fridays, but we were passing through on Sunday.
We got creative and were able to rustle up some flowers for our visit to Pineview Cemetery; I can't divulge how we got them.
Our next stop was Archer, 38 miles southwest of Ashton. My wife's aunt was laid to rest at the small farming community's burial spot, Sutton Cemetery. We arrived with a single orange-colored flower we got while in St. Anthony, and again, a store clerk we asked there could only come up with one place in town that sold them, and she wasn't really sure they had them.
Long story short (too late, I know), we managed to find both gravesites and adorn them with flowers before heading back to Twin Falls on Sunday evening.
The moral of my story? Southeastern Idaho could use a few more flower shops.
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