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Colville National Forest

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Colville National Forest
765 South Main Street
Colville, 99114

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Camping
Northeast Washington is a camping paradise
and it is all inside the Colville National Forest. You can take your pick of camping experiences from an array of settings from dry ponderosa pine forests to high-country subalpine fir. Set up your tent at a dispersed site along the crystal-clear streams in the Kettle Range or the beautiful Salmo-Priest Wilderness Area. If you are in the mood for a less rustic experience, stay at one of the Collvile national forests 28 developed campgrounds.

Where ever you stay, remember that you are responsible for helping care for the land and facilities. Most non-fee campgrounds do not have garbage service, so please pack it out. Be sure to take your own water to campsites where water is not available.

Pend Oreille Valley CampgroundsPOV campgrounds will be opening (full service with fees being charged) on May 20 except for Pioneer Park which will open on May 13. If people are looking for a place to camp now, West Sullivan Campground, Noisy Creek Group and Sullivan Lake Group sites are open. No services are available at any of these. Garbage needs to be packed out. If fire ring installation is complete at Mill Pond and Browns Lake before the opening of fishing season (April 30), both of those campgrounds will open up on that date, but will have no services. Panhandle Campground Boat Launch is currently open. Noisy Creek and East Sullivan boat ramps are open, but due to the low water level in the lake are not currently useable.

Camping fees are increasing this year to $12.00 per night for a single with the exception of Browns Lake which will be $10.00 per night, $24.00 per night for a double and $6.00 per extra vehicle. Day use charges will remain the same at $3.00 per vehicle or $30.00 for a season pass. The season passes are sold by our concessionaire and are good at all area campgrounds they operate. Besides the POV, those areas are Little Pend Oreille Sam Owens (Sandpoint Ranger District) Priest Lake RD and Coeur d Alene River RD.

Bead Lake Boat Launch is scheduled to open on April 15 and fees will be charged starting on that date. Fees have remained the same-$5.00 per day to launch (regardless if you park in the launch area or not) or to park at the site. Season passes are available for $30.00.

Trails
Biking

This years Fall Mt.Bike Fest at Swan Lake was the 10th. It marked the 8th year that we have been in partnership with the City of Spokanes Parks and Recreation Outdoor Program. There were 69 participants in the two days of activities. There were 10 staff and volunteers that worked, instructed, supervised, photographed, directed and lead . . .

Adult Ride Tech. Clinic (Mike Aho)

Advanced Ride Tech. Clinic( Naomi Keilwitz)

Canoe/Kayak Tech. (Megan Rolland)

Kids Poker Ride (all)

Trail Side Repair Class (Scott Charbonneau)

Kids Crafts (Sarah Aho)

Adult Obstacle Course (all)

Kids Obstacle Course (all)

Evening Nature Hunt (Susie Thiele)

Womens Only Ride ( Sarah Aho, Naomi Keilwitz)

Adult Poker Ride ( all)

Organization/Administration (Susie Thiele)

Donations for prizes were donated by many bike shops, outdoor equipment retailers and merchants in Spokane, Colville, Republic and Curlew. Donations were generous and everyone was a winner. The weather only failed for a couple hours Sunday morning, raining on the "womens only" ride (go figure)...then stopping before the adult poker ride.

Numbers of participants were down from the previous year...due to weather forecasts. 80% of the participants come from the Spokane area.Curlew JCCC Forestry crew provided the fire wood for the camps and cleared the ride routs for the event.

Spokane Parks and Rec. provided the tandem bikes, trailers, kayaks and canoes.Fun was had by all.

History of the Area

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Colville National Forest An overlooked treasure The Colville National Forest disproves the widely held notion that Washington State lies flat east of the Cascade Mountains. These million acres
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offers numerous hiking opportunities in the Colville National Forest, Juniper Dunes Wilderness, Salmo-Priest Wilderness and
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...l protects Colville National Forest land, Seattle watershed The final part of a land deal intended to protect trout habitat
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at Risk Twin Sisters and Hoodoo Roadless Areas, Colville National Forest (WA). The proposed Deadman timber sale, ostensibly
Hoodoo Roadless Areas, Colville National Forest Gentle forested
...ville National Forest (509) 684-7190 Map # Sno-Park Directions Spaces 21 Empire Lakes / Swan Lake 23 Flodelle Campground 19 mi E of Colville via Hwy 20 50 28 Chewelah 29 Kings Lake From Spokane
...9 University of Washington Herbarium Foray Colville National Forest, Washington The 1999 Foray sponsored by the UW
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