ACTIVITIES - ROAD BIKING ROAD BIKING LINKS Bicycle Alliance of Washington North Division Bicycle Shop Spokane Mountaineers REI InlandNWOutdoors Spokane Bicycle Club Baddlands Bicycle Club Rocket Velo Club WOW - Women on Wheels Spokane Outdoors Website Friends of the Coeur d'Alene Trails

Bike to Work Spokane! May 12-16, 2008
Work to eat. Eat to live. Live to bike. Bike to work. Sponsored by http://www.biketoworkspokane.org

There are active advocates working to make our city even more bicycle friendly through the City’s Bicycle Advisory Board, the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, and groups such as Inland Northwest Trails.

ROAD BIKE AREAS

The Spokane area offers the best in roadbiking. You can live in the heart of our city and ride from home, visiting quiet roads in minutes. See the draft version of the area’s road bike map: View front PDF Map View back PDF Map

We have low traffic rural roads surrounding the city that lead to pine forests, rolling wheat fields and small towns. Spokane has a four season climate, with humidity so low in the summers that our weather forecasters don’t bother to report it!

Paved Trails around Spokane include the nearly 50 mile Centennial Trail that parallels the Spokane River from Northwest of the city, through downtown’s Riverfront Park and over the state border where it becomes the Idaho Centennial Trail. Great for families with kids too.

The Columbia Plateau Trail travels 130 miles from East Pasco to Fish Lake (near Spokane), through the channeled scablands and pine forests of eastern Washington. Only certain sections of these trails are currently paved or graveled. Future phased-development plans call for additional surface improvements and the addition of primitive campsites. Advocates are hard at work in Spokane to have the portion from Fish Lake to Spokane’s central Highbridge Park completed.

The Trail of the Coeur d'Alenesis a beautiful paved trail following railroad right-of-way from Mullan near the Montana border, to Plummer on the prairie near the Washington border. There are 72 miles of paved paths through the mountains, the historic Silver Valley, along the river and past a series of lakes, along the shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, over the Chatcolet Bridge to Heyburn State Park, and then climbs to the Palouse prairie.