Inland NW links
Miscellaneous
- Avian Balloon
http://www.avianballoon.com/
- Manufacturing hot air balloons since 1974; also local balloon rides
- Bing Crosby Theater
http://www.mettheater.com/
- The former State Theater, my old favorite for date movies, more recently called Metropolitan Performing Arts Center or "The Met" locally; was renamed early in 2007, but while the site is being maintained as to upcoming events, strangely it still references the old name (25 October 2007)
- Center Target Sports (Post Falls ID) http://www.centertargetsports.com/
- Indoor firing ranges, guns for sale or rent, firearms training courses
- Eagles Ice-Arena
http://www.eaglesicearena.com/
- Local ice skating venue since 1974, hockey and figure skating
- Flow Adventures
http://www.flow-adventures.com/
- Salmon River and Spokane River rafting trips, kayak instruction
- Full Spectrum Kayak Tours (Sandpoint ID)
http://www.kayaking.net/
- Lake Pend Oreille and Priest Lake
- The Glover Mansion
http://www.glovermansion.com/
- Available for weddings, receptions, meetings, other events
- Hillyard Skatepark
http://www.hillyardskatepark.com/
- Mt. Spokane State Park
http://www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Mount+Spokane
- 13,919 acres surrounding 5,883-foot Mt. Spokane northeast of the city; aee also
Friends of Mt. Spokane State Park site,
Wikipedia article, and the link for the ski & snowboard park below.
- Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
http://www.northwestmuseum.org/
- Pangaea River Rafting (Superior MT)
http://www.leaveboringbehind.com/
- Clark Fork, Spokane, Blackfoot rivers; Superior is on I-90 between Lookout Pass and Missoula.
- Pedal Pushers Bike Rental & Repair (Harrison ID) http://bikenorthidaho.com/
- On the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes (see trail link below). Also has recumbent bicycles for rent including one recumbent tandem, mountain bike sales, and offers shuttle service for the Trail. New location added May 2005 in Heyburn State Park on the west side of Coeur d'Alene Lake.
- Riverfront Park
http://www.spokaneriverfrontpark.com/
- Large park in the city center, surrounding the falls, including a newly refurbished cable car ride, and a couple of suspension footbridges that are a bit frightening during spring runoff; legacy of world's fair
Expo 74. (Downtown Spokane's style before 1974 could pretty well be described as industrial grim.) Outdoor music events, IMAX theater, fireworks on July 4th and New Year's Eve.
- Riverside State Park
http://www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Riverside
- 10,000 acres on both sides of the Spokane River downstream from the city center; camping, hiking, interpretive centers; see also the
Riverside State Park Foundation page.
- Rockin' B Ranch
http://www.rockinbranch.com/
- Cowboy dinner theater is what I guess I'd call this; seems to be mostly for families with kids. South side of I-90 at exit 299 (State Line).
- Roller Valley Skate Center
http://www.rollervalley.com/
- Sharp Shooting (Spokane)
http://www.sharpshooting.net/
- State-of-the-art indoor shooting range: classes, rentals, sales
- The Shop
http://theshop.bz/
- Hot spot in the
South Perry neighborhood.
Flash-dependent site which plays music when you load the homepage; best on broadband and not at work.
- Silverwood Theme Park
http://www.silverwoodthemepark.com/
- About 15 miles north of Coeur d'Alene; three roller coasters, including a wooden one that dives underground
- Spokane Convention Center & Opera House
http://www.spokanecenter.com/
- We're now supposed to call the Opera House the "INB Performing Arts Center"
- Spokane County Fair & Expo Center
http://www.spokanecounty.org/fair/
- Interstate fair every year
- Spokane Raceway Park
http://www.spokaneracewaypark.com/
- AHRA and AARA drag and stock car racing
- Spokane Soccer Center
http://www.nwsoccercenters.com/html/sp/
- Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena
http://www.spokanearena.com/
- 12,500 seats: events including Spokane Chiefs hockey, Spokane Shock af2 arena football, basketball, concerts, and the 2007 US Figure Skating Championships
- St. John's Cathedral (Episcopal)
http://www.stjohns-cathedral.org/
- Stone cathedral on the edge of the South Hill bluff overlooking downtown, visible from much of North Spokane; large pipe organ and 49-bell tower carillon. Also sometimes serves as a music venue.
- Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge
http://www.fws.gov/turnbull/
- 16,000 acres near Cheney WA, including 3,000 acres of wetland habitat
- The Warehouse Athletics Facility
http://www.warehouseathletics.com/
- Gonzaga district
- Wild Walls
http://www.wildwalls.com/
- A climbing walls establishment, downtown
- Wildwaters Water Park
http://www.wildwaterswaterpark.com/
- Waterslide park, near junction of I-90 and US95 in Coeur d'Alene
- Wiley E. Waters (Post Falls ID)
http://www.riverrafting.net/
- White water river rafting on the Clark Fork River (Montana/Idaho)
- Wonderland Golf & Games
http://www.wonderlandusa.com/
- Miniature golf, go-karts, climbing, arcade
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- Centennial Trail
http://www.spokanecentennialtrail.org/
- Excellent paved bike trail along the Spokane River, about 50 miles, from Nine Mile Falls through downtown Spokane to the Coeur d'Alene lakefront (refer to map on main
Inland NW page). A footbridge was completed in 2004 across the Spokane River which will connect the westernmost section in Riverside State Park with the rest of the trail.
- Route of the Hiawatha Mountain Bike Trail
http://www.skilookout.com/hiaw/
- A spectacular 15-mile former rail line high in the Bitterroot mountains, with tunnels and tall trestles, which was the route of a named passenger train; it's been converted to compacted-gravel mountain-bike trail,¹ with safety railings on the trestles. A shuttle bus is available; helmets and lights are required (the tunnels are unlit and one of them is 1.6 miles long). There are also
friendsofcdatrails.org,
US Forest Service and
Wallace ID
home pages for the trail.
- Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes
http://friendsofcdatrails.org/CdA_Trail/index.html
- A beautiful 70-mile paved rail trail, down the historic Silver Valley² and alongside and across Coeur d'Alene Lake, managed in partnership by the
Coeur d'Alene Tribe and the
Idaho Dept. of Parks & Recreation. There are 2% maximum grades at the east and west ends, with 1,100 feet elevation change in the Silver Valley at the east end, but most of the western half of the trail is essentially flat. There's an illustrated brochure and map for the trail available at many area bike shops. Other home pages for this trail:
Wallace ID,
Idaho Parks & Recreation.
- 49 Degrees North
http://www.ski49n.com/
- At Chewelah Peak in Stevens County, which borders Spokane County on the north.
- Lookout Pass Ski Resort
http://www.skilookout.com/
- Lookout Pass is where I-90 crosses the Idaho-Montana border, east of Coeur d'Alene
- Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park
http://www.mtspokane.com/
- Maybe not the most inspiring ski hill in the world, but close enough to ski after work on a week night
- Schweitzer Ski Resort
http://www.schweitzer.com/
- Near Sandpoint in Bonner County, which borders Kootenai County on the north
- Silver Mountain Ski Resort
http://www.silvermt.com/
- Silver Mountain is east of Coeur d'Alene, in Shoshone County
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