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Celebrate Trails Day Rolls into Wallace, Idaho April 25 

Cover photo courtesy of Shallan Knowles Welcome in the spring biking season in North Idaho’s scenic Silver Valley with Celebrate Trails Day on April 25. The event in Historic Wallace, Idaho, is part of the nationwide celebration led by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy to honor the incredible trail systems that connect our communities. Other event partners include the Friends of the Coeur d’Alene Trails, Route of the Hiawatha and Idaho State

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Extreme Skijor Turns Wallace Into an Urban Winter Arena 

Cover photo by Nate Mattson courtesy of Ski Wallace Each February, Wallace, Idaho, remakes itself into something no one expects: a snow-filled, high-velocity, urban slopestyle battleground. The quiet historic streets transform into a two-block terrain park lined with lights, cheering crowds, an ice bar, and enough adrenaline to power the town’s neon signs for a

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2024 Wallace Huckleberry Festival and 5k Fun Run Aug 17-18

One of the coolest, family-friendly mountain town festivals in the Northwest, the Wallace Huckleberry Festival offers a wide range of activities in celebration of the venerable huckleberry! The festival includes something for just about everyone, with live music, food and other vendors, kids huckleberry contests, a magic show, a 5k fun run, a huckleberry pancake

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2023 Wallace Huckleberry Festival & 5k Run Aug 19-20

The Wallace Huckleberry Festival is an annual tradition in Idaho’s Silver Valley that combines a 5k race, food and craft vendors, live music, kids’ activities and huckleberries all in one of the coolest historic towns in the Northwest! The festival makes a great adventure/culture combo day trip or weekend getaway from Spokane or just about

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Aerial view of downtown Wallace, Idaho, featuring historic red-brick buildings in the downtown business area, surrounded by forested hills.

Mountain Town Evolution & the Emerging Food Scene in Wallace, Idaho

Everyone knows at least one thing about Wallace, Idaho: that’s where Dante’s Peak was filmed; it’s located at the Center of the Universe; and during the Great Fire of 1910, Ed Pulaski saved nearly all his men after ordering them into an abandoned mineshaft to wait out the fire. While local Wallace folks remain deeply

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2022 Wallace Huckleberry Festival & 5k Run Aug 19-20

The Wallace Huckleberry Festival brings together so many things we love: a 5k race, food and craft vendors, live music, kids’ activities and huckleberries all in one of the coolest historic towns in the Northwest! Wallace Huckleberry Festival 5K Fun Run 2022 The race starts in the center of the universe in downtown Wallace at

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Two cyclists riding over one of the train trestles on the Route of the Hiawatha rail-trail.

Find Adventure & Solitude On These Spring Rides Out Of Wallace, Idaho

Photo Credit: Idaho Tourism The spring months are a special time to visit the Silver Valley and Wallace, Idaho, with a bike or quiver of bikes in tow. Crowds are unheard of this time of year, and there are a variety of ride types with varying distances, trail and road surfaces, and elevation gain to

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