Spokane River Centennial State Park Trail — Friday, Jul. 29, 2016

Eastern Washington > Spokane Area/Coeur d'Alene

This was an amazing 3 day Bike trip that took us from Spokane Washington to Taft Montana. Since this is WTA I'll focus on the Washington part of this trail. This is a multi use "Rails to Trails" path. We started at Mirabeau Meadows Park (Take exit 289 from Interstate 90). and ended at the Coeur D’ Alene Public Library in downtown Coeur D’ Alene. The beginning and end of this trail was beautiful, the middle was ehh. some of it was along I-90, all was hot and very exposed. There were multiple stops for water along the way, near the end you were biking on city streets and pretty hilly. I'll admit that my pretty bad case of dehydration is skewing my opinion but I didn't like this trail for the majority of it. Once you got out of the city (Couer D' Alene), and into a more trail type environment it was beautiful, along the Spokane River then Lake Couer D' Alene and the College Campus. We "kamped" at the KOA and it was fine, if you like that kind of camping. You can camp at the Bowl and Pitcher State Park but then a lot of the beginning of the trail is on city streets. For this length the GPS read 28 miles and we didn't make an average of 10 miles per hour, more like 6 but the bigger stronger boys were closer to 10. As for the rest of the trip, WOW, the Trail of the Couer D' Alenes was amazing, we started at Heyburn State Park in Idaho and road 50 miles to Kellog, camped at "By the Way" and then for the 3rd day road the Trail of the Hiawatha. Beautiful!