Joe Biden will make his first stop as President in the Pacific Northwest next week

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden will be in the Pacif­ic North­west for the first time since becom­ing the nation’s Com­man­der-in-Chief back in Jan­u­ary when he took the oath of office, the White House announced in a media advi­so­ry today.

The Pres­i­dent will be mak­ing a stop in Boise, Ida­ho as part of an west­ern swing that will also include a stop in Den­ver, Colorado.

The Pres­i­den­t’s pri­ma­ry des­ti­na­tion on this trip is Cal­i­for­nia, where he is mak­ing an elec­tion eve appear­ance with Cal­i­for­nia Gov­er­nor Gavin New­som to urge vot­ers to turn out and vote no on the Repub­li­can recall. He will also vis­it fire-scarred com­mu­ni­ties in the Gold­en State to observe dam­age firsthand.

Here’s the notice from the White House:

On Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 13th, the Pres­i­dent will trav­el to Boise, Ida­ho where he will vis­it the Nation­al Inter­a­gency Fire Cen­ter; Sacra­men­to, Cal­i­for­nia to sur­vey wild­fire dam­age; Long Beach, Cal­i­for­nia to par­tic­i­pate in an event with Gov­er­nor Gavin New­som; and Den­ver, Col­orado, where he will par­tic­i­pate in a Build Back Bet­ter event.  The trip will be pooled press. Addi­tion­al details to follow.

The advi­so­ry does­n’t say if Biden will be stay­ing overnight on the Left Coast, but a four stop itin­er­ary will make for a long day regard­less. For­tu­nate­ly, the Air Force knows how to get VIPs from A to B to C to D in an expe­di­tious fashion.

The Pres­i­dent has not yet vis­it­ed Wash­ing­ton or Ore­gon since assum­ing office, although that could change by the time the midterms roll around. Ore­gon will have an impor­tant guber­na­to­r­i­al elec­tion next year, along with a new­ly expand­ed con­gres­sion­al map, while Wash­ing­ton will have a U.S. Sen­ate election.

The Nation­al Inter­a­gency Fire Cen­ter, which the Pres­i­dent is vis­it­ing in Boise, is an impor­tant strate­gic facil­i­ty that hous­es teams of peo­ple work­ing on fire pre­ven­tion, con­tain­ment, and extinguishment.

“NIFC is a place. But it’s far more than a col­lec­tion of build­ings. It is the epit­o­me of inter­a­gency coop­er­a­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion,” the agency explains.

“It’s the ener­gy of near­ly six hun­dred employ­ees, rep­re­sent­ing eight sep­a­rate fed­er­al and state agen­cies, engaged in mul­ti­ple aspects of the same mis­sion: to devel­op nation­al wild­land fire pol­i­cy and lead in its imple­men­ta­tion; and to serve as the logis­ti­cal and sup­port cen­ter for the nation’s wild­land fires and, at times, oth­er nation­al dis­as­ters and emergencies.”

Con­ve­nient­ly, NIFC is sit­u­at­ed right next to the Boise Air­port, which means the Pres­i­dent can fly in on Air Force One and already be with­in a few steps of the place he’s vis­it­ing upon land­ing. No need for a heli­copter ride or road clo­sures in the heart of Boise to accom­mo­date a motorcade.

The Pacif­ic North­west has not had a pres­i­den­tial vis­it since the Oba­ma era, as Don­ald Trump did not set foot in Wash­ing­ton, Ore­gon, or Ida­ho dur­ing his occu­pan­cy of the Oval Office. Trump did, how­ev­er, make sev­er­al stops in Alas­ka and Mon­tana. Most of his trips to Mon­tana were in oppo­si­tion to Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tor Jon Tester’s reelec­tion. Despite Trump’s efforts to defeat Tester, Big Sky vot­ers sent him back to the Sen­ate for anoth­er six-year term in 2018.