Following is our experience when we rode this trail August 2003:

What a delight to find a 73-mile newly laid asphalt trail that almost spans the Idaho Panhandle. The trail begins at Mullan, near the Montana border in the Bitter Root Mountains, and travels through the Silver Valley ending at the Hn'ya)pqi'nn Trailhead near Plummer on Idaho Highway 95. (Believe it or not, that's the correct spelling!)

We cannot tell you how much we enjoyed this trail and the surrounding area. We LOVED the town of Wallace, which looks just like it did in the early 1900's and probably will never change.

Future plans include connecting the trail from Mullan to the Route of the Hiawatha rail trail on the Montana border and connecting the west end of the trail to the Washington State John Wayne Pioneer rail trail which travels from Seattle to Tekoa.

See a few of our photos and comments below.

Riding in the foothills of the Bitter Root Mountains near Wallace.

This was near the Cataldo Trailhead.

Riding early in the morning along the Coeur d'Alene River.

The last several miles of trail are along the shore of Lake Coeur d'Alenes. The marina was a pretty spot to take a break.

For further information contact:

Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation
Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park
P.O. Box 30
Cataldo, ID 83810
208-682-3814