SELKIRK LOOP SELKIRK LOOP - International Selkirk Loop
SELKIRK LOOP SELKIRK LOOP - International Selkirk Loop
SELKIRK LOOP SELKIRK LOOP - International Selkirk Loop
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Flowery Trail-Little Pend Oreille Super Side Trip<br />
WaShInGton<br />
Kanum City Park<br />
– host to several<br />
major events<br />
during the spring<br />
and summer<br />
months. Colville<br />
has its own 18hole<br />
public golf<br />
course, Dominion<br />
Meadows.<br />
Nearby Lake<br />
Roosevelt, accessed<br />
by a short<br />
Great Horned Owl (tim Cady) drive farther west<br />
at Kettle Falls, is the<br />
area’s largest water sports playground. Heading<br />
south on Highway 395 toward Chewelah, visitors<br />
travel through a lovely wide valley of mixed<br />
cultivated fields and coniferous forests.<br />
Chewelah has approximately 2,400<br />
residents, and displays a pleasant blend of the<br />
past and future. As far back as the early 1870s,<br />
Chewelah established itself as an agricultural and<br />
later a commercial center with the opening of<br />
manganese mines during World War I. With its<br />
FeSTIvaLS and evenTS<br />
CheWelah<br />
February Lions Club Cork & Keg Tasting<br />
Chewelah Arts Guild Annual Art Festival<br />
PACA EVENT–local Performing Arts event<br />
March Alice in Wonderland, StageTime Theatre<br />
School Production<br />
May Downtown Chewelah Car Show<br />
Park Avenue Players Theater Production<br />
Nostalgia Days Antique/Classic Cars &<br />
Quilt Show<br />
June Chewelah Arts Guild Art in the Garden Tour<br />
Mistequa Motorcycle Show<br />
July Chataqua Arts & Crafts Festival<br />
Chataqua Challenge Fun Run 5K & 10K<br />
August James Dean Days Car Show, Chewelah Park<br />
September Spokane Symphony performance,<br />
Chewelah Peak Learning Center<br />
October Snowmobile Grass Drags<br />
Tour De Rock Bike Ride, 49 Degrees North<br />
Lions Club Bike Tour<br />
November Park Avenue Players Theater Production<br />
49 Degrees North opens Thanksgiving<br />
weekend<br />
December Festival of Lights - Santa Social - Tree of<br />
Sharing<br />
Stagetime Theater School Production<br />
Chewelah Chamber<br />
(509) 935-8595 • www.chewelah.org<br />
moderate climate, dry land and irrigated farming,<br />
ranching and dairies were mainstays.<br />
Chataqua, a four-day arts festival, is<br />
one of Chewelah’s major events, always the second<br />
weekend in July. Held on eight-plus acres<br />
at Chewelah City Park, Chataqua features craft<br />
exhibits, free entertainment, food and a traveling<br />
carnival. There is also a fine historical museum,<br />
antique car museum and casino to<br />
explore. Chewelah is home to the only 27 hole<br />
golf course in Eastern Washington, Chewelah<br />
Golf & Country Club.<br />
Turn east onto the Flowery Trail Road from<br />
Chewelah and travel 10 miles to the top of the<br />
pass at 4,046 feet where 49 Degrees North<br />
and Chewelah Peak Learning Center offer a<br />
stay-and-play family oriented ski hill with miles of<br />
groomed trails. Snowmobiling and cross-country<br />
skiing adventures provide plenty of additional cold<br />
weather action. In the warm weather months, take<br />
advantage of the area’s scenic back roads and<br />
trails for bike tours, mountain biking and hiking.<br />
This route rejoins to the main <strong>Selkirk</strong> <strong>Loop</strong><br />
route at Usk. Turn south onto Highway 20 south<br />
toward Newport.<br />
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