The city is named after John Hailey,[5] a two-time Congressional delegate from the Idaho Territory.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.65 square miles (9.45 km2), all of it land.

Winters are cold and snowy: there are an average of forty-four days each year which fail to top 32 °F or 0 °C, whilst 199 nights fall below freezing and nineteen nights between November and March will fall to or below 0 °F or −17.8 °C.

Precipitation falls primarily as snow in winter and as thunderstorms in late spring.

The county is in the catchment area, but not the taxation zone, for College of Southern Idaho.

Other mountains in Hailey are Carbonate, Red Devil Peak (6594 ft.), and Della (6729 ft.).

The Friedman Memorial Airport provides direct flights to Salt Lake City, and Seattle most year round.

Direct flights to Los Angeles, Denver, San Francisco and Chicago are available seasonally.

His children Leon and Lucile Friedman donated the land for the airport to the city in 1931.

[20] Hailey is the home to Sun Valley Magazine, a quarterly publication focusing on fine dining, real estate and local events.

Hailey has two local newspapers: The Idaho Mountain Express and The Weekly Sun.

The Idaho Mountain Express is located in Ketchum and is published every Wednesday and Friday.

Snowboard Magazine was founded in Hailey, Idaho in the year 2004 by local resident Mark Sullivan.

The magazine quickly grew to the 3rd largest snowboarding publication in the world before being sold to Storm Mountain Publishing in 2007.

KHLY at 1440 AM is Hailey’s only AM radio station and repeated in Sun Valley at 103.7 FM.

Plum TV ultimately went bankrupt and their Hailey and Ketchum LPTV (low power television) licenses were surrendered back to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

At noon, a mock old west shoot out takes place in the centre of town.

After the parade, spectators gather at Hop Porter Park for food and music.