For Outdoor Enthusiasts
From the category archives:
Despite all the rain we had over the holiday weekend , Gillmore Campground at Farragut State Park is one of my favorite places to stay. The camp hosts here do such a wonderful job keeping this place clean from the bathrooms to the individual campsites. The only drawback for Farragut is the check-in process. You [...]
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Kit Price Campground is one of several campgrounds resting along the banks of the Coeur D'Alene River in the Coeur D' Alene National Forest of North Idaho. The reason I like this campground is because the campsites are spread out reasonably well from each other. Access to Kit Price is easy and the fishing along the river is great, however [...]
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Indian Creek Campground is located in Priest Lake State Park and is a very nice campground. The campground is mostly wooded with private sites. There are wonderful tenting spaces and some tenting spaces are located along a bubbling creek. There is a great long sandy beach area (volleyball nets, etc) & boat launch. Boat moorage [...]
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Our family could not have asked for a better weekend or a better campground to wrap up the 2008 camping season. Nestled along the south side of the Pend Orielle River in the Northern panhandle of Idaho sits a gem of a campground. We’ve tried to camp here earlier in the year, but the campground was full. [...]
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Emerald Creek Campground: Rating 5 My family enjoys the hunt for gem stones and precious metals. Last year the family went to Gem Mountain in Montana and found some beautiful sapphires. This year we decided to go to the Emerald Creek garnet area. Emerald Creek is located about 25 miles south of Saint Maries, Idaho. [...]
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UPDATE 4/22/2009: Idaho State Parks has contracted with www.reserveamerica.com. UPDATE 01/04/2009: The Idaho Parks website is reporting that the online reservation feature is temporarily halted due to complaints and system performance issues. The number to call to make a reservation at any Idaho State Park is: 1-208-630-5050. Over the Independence Day holiday we decided to take a [...]
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Happy Fathers Day Weekend! North Idaho Campgrounds Open The camping season got off to a late start this year for four North Idaho campgrounds. Kit Price, Devil’s Elbow, Big Hank and Berlin Flats all open this weekend for the 2008 camping season. The campgrounds opened late due to a record snowpack in the area. Montana [...]
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Osprey Campground, Priest Lake Idaho Let the 2008 camping season begin! Memorial Day Weekend 2008 can only be described as beautiful. The family packed into the Studebaker and pulled the trusty ole tent trailer to Osprey Campground sited on the western banks of Priest Lake in the Northern panhandle of Idaho. Located in the Kaniksu [...]
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This past weekend, the family packed into the family roadster and hauled the good ole tent trailer for a quick getaway to Heyburn State Park in Northern Idaho. This park is located 9 miles east of a town named Plummer. Prior to the park’s inception the area was a place the Coeur D’Alene Indian tribe [...]
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Washington State Health Officials issued a limited consumption advisory early this week. The advisory is for certain classes of fish caught along the Spokane River and Lake Roosevelt because they contain a higher than normal level of mercury. Here are the areas of the Spokane River affected by this advisory: Idaho Border to Upriver Dam: [...]
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