Tofino, British Columbia, is rugged and wild. As the most western point on Vancouver Island accessible by road and the terminus of Highway 4, Tofino beckons surfers, storm watchers, and culinary fanatics from around the world to its low-key paradise. Its identity is uniquely metropolitan-meets-coastal-village. As the crowds of summer thin, check out this itinerary […]
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Guide to regional breweries in the Inland Northwest, including Spokane, south & central Washington, NE Wash., N Idaho, and NE Oregon.
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Begin your First Friday itinerary planning online at the Downtown Spokane Partnership’s (DSP) website, downtownspokane.org/first-Friday. Each month is different, depending on participating venues and the new or continuing art exhibits they’re hosting. Select events and venues according to featured routes that are organized by theme, including gallery, kid-friendly, stage, and tasting room, among others. Select
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Our annual gift guide leans heavily towards things and experiences you can buy here locally from a real person at a real shop. We include gift ideas for the gear geeks that are inevitably on your list, as well as a wide range of cool and unique items for the less outdoorsy people you’ll no
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Harold Balazs has worked in Spokane for 70 years, creating whimsical, intriguing, and often confounding works of art. They range from large-scale public displays to private commissions in the form of giant doors, tiny address numbers, enamel murals, scores of liturgical art for area churches, plus the more traditional jewelry, watercolors, and enamels. It’s safe
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If you already have a “lake place” – your own or your parents,’ your friend’s grandparents or cousins, or your Uncle Bob’s – then you likely already have your favorite lake. But for the rest of us, any of the dozens of Inland Northwest lakes can be ours for the loving. To feel the cold
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I arrived at the trailhead to St. Leon Hot Springs, in British Columbia’s Arrow Lakes Valley – unsigned and accessed by a rough logging road, like many such Canadian destinations – just as a local painter and her guests were leaving. Soliciting suggestions for camping nearby, I ruled out their previous night’s accommodations, wherein they
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When was the last time a landscape spoke to you? Were you marveling at the fields of balsamroot in Riverside State Park? Holding your breath as you pedaled over a trestle on the Hiawatha Trail? Gazing out over Lake Pend Oreille from the top of Scotchman Peak? Or were you standing in front of a
When Roast House Coffee commits to a cause, they go all in. Community involvement and engaging in significant causes sit at the top of Roast House’s to-do list, and they’re never crossed out. Free The Snake coffee benefits Save Our Wild Salmon, and it’s aimed at helping restore the lower Snake River canyons to bring
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In the professional rodeo activities the duty of shielding the bull rider currently comes on the bullfighter as the rodeo clown once again centers around entertaining the crowd. There’s much debate between historians on if the first rodeo basically occurred. Boys of outdated typically competed against each other for boasting rights about who was simply
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