Well today I was feeling better so we decided to take a tour around Lake Coeur d Alene to Harrison, St Maries and then to Worley and the Friday night seafood buffet at the casino. Bring on the king crab legs. We had the top of the jeep it was a beautiful sunny day and the GPS was loaded with Geo Caches. There were a bunch of easy ones all the way around the route. About half way around the lake is the town of Harrison. It is a historical little town that had some neat little stores and a very nice art gallery. They were preparing for a homemade brewing competition but we were there too early in the day, they were just setting up for the weekend. While I was looking for a geocache I discovered the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes. This is a 72 mile paved bike path that can be ridden in three sections:
Plummer to Harrison: 15.3 mile ride downhill to Heyburn State Park on Lake Coeur d'Alene, across the Chatcolet Bridge and along the lake shore to Harrison, population 267
Harrison to Enaville: 31.8 miles of flat terrain from the Lake along the Coeur d'Alene River through the isolated Chain Lakes region to Enaville on the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River
Enaville to Mullan: 24.3 miles gradually climbing through a series of small towns that make up the famous Silver Valley, until Wallace, when the grade increases to a maximum of 3% as the trail follows the South Fork uphill to Mullan
There are interpretative sites all along the trail informing people about the history of the area, along with warnings about mine waste being present nearby.
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