Local Color / June 11, 2026
A 28-Foot Potato Once Toured America. Now It’s a Boise Area Hotel.
The Big Idaho Potato Hotel started life as a promotional stunt for the Idaho Potato Commission and has been an overnight stay since 2019.
BOISE, ID—Before it became a place to sleep, the Big Idaho Potato spent seven years on a flatbed truck, hauling Idaho’s agricultural pride across all 48 contiguous states. The 28-foot Russet Burbank replica—built from steel, plaster, concrete, and expanding foam—launched in 2012 as a traveling advertisement for the Idaho Potato Commission.
The math on its fictional yield: 20,217 servings of tater. In 2019, builder Kristie Wolfe converted it into a one-of-a-kind short-term rental, and it has been accepting guests ever since.
It is, by most reasonable measures, the most famous potato in the world that you can also sleep inside.
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