Spokane River Kickoff Kicks
Shame on you if you missed the Spokane River Kickoff at Corbin Park in Post Falls this past weekend.
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Firday Night Floats on the Spokane River
Want to get involved with the Northwest Whitewater Association? If you have class III skills and a boat meet up with them this Friday. They are also selling Idaho boat stickers. See below: Friday Night Floats Continue This Week: The long-standing tradition of weekly floats on the lower Spokane River begins again, weather & water
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A Modest Proposal: A Spokane River Greenway District
Picture yourself IN a boat on a river—a drift boat, on the Spokane River. As you round the bend, you realize the gate at your take-out spot is locked. A cyclist rolling down the trail stops to portage her bike around a fallen tree. You remember making the same portage a week ago. What’s happening
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Where’s the Spokane River Trout?
A red band trout. A frequent contributor to OTM and an avid fly fisher remarked to me recently that the trout fishing is the Spokane River is a lot worse than last year. What could be the reason? Where could he go to find out answers? I posed that question to our resident water expert
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Year Of The River: Your Guide to Getting Out and Having Fun on the Spokane River in a Year of Great Water Flow
SPOKANE WAS NOT UNLIKE hundreds of other cities and towns at the time that discovered the rivers that ran through them were a tremendous source of waterpower. Now, despite the efforts to harness the river-which Avista Utilities and its predecessor Washington Water Power did a thorough job of by placing a half-dozen dams along its
Don’t Forget the Spokane River
Paul Green is one of the folks who wrote in to give us an addition to our current “”21 Things” cover story. He’s got a great point: Your list of 21 things was fun to read. There are a few excellent adventures that should be added to the list, however, I do not want more
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Family Rafting on the Spokane River
Family Rafting on the Spokane River Terry Bain IF YOU’RE ANYTHING like me, you look at Spokane River downtown and think, “Oh, nice river.” You take out-of-town visitors to Riverfront or Riverside State Park, and they take pictures. How often do you actually interact with the river? Most of us probably spend a scant few
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Keeping Spokane’s River Path Thriving
Cover photo courtesy of Lisa Laughlin How does a river city turn natural beauty into everyday well-being? In Spokane, the answer is the Centennial Trail, a paved corridor that links neighborhoods, parks and river views. The route now stretches about 63 miles. It runs roughly 40 miles in Washington, from the Idaho border through Spokane
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Wednesdays in the Woods: Free Summer Events at Riverside State Park, Spokane WA
June marks the return of the popular Wednesdays in the Woods events at Riverside State Park in Spokane, Washington, hosted by the Riverside State Park Foundation. These free public events offer family-friendly educational presentations on local wildlife, Spokane hiking trails, and outdoor recreation in Washington’s largest state park. The event series kicks off June 4
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24 Hours of Riverside 2025: Spokane’s Ultimate Mountain Bike Race & Party
(Photos courtesy of 24 Hours of Riverside) The dirt, the dust, the adrenaline, and the sheer madness of pushing pedals through the night—it can only mean one thing: 24 Hours of Riverside is back! Spokane’s most legendary mountain bike event returns to Riverside State Park on Memorial Day weekend, May 24-25, 2025, bringing together solo
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