Idaho Hits Tourism Grand Slam

You could say bicycle tourists have a tough life—always fighting traffic, poor road conditions, wind and rain, the scorn of people who think roads were built for motorists only. But Idaho has stepped up to the bar and given cyclists an astonishing reprieve from all of this—and hit a tourism biz home run in the process.

This reprieve comes in the form of the two-year-old Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, a 71-mile strip of glassy smooth asphalt stretching from Mullen to Plummer in Northern Idaho, mostly along the Coeur d’Alene River and Lake and picturesque marshlands and including the half-mile historic Chatcolet Bridge over the South Arm of the Coeur d’Alene Lake.

By Bill Schneider

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