Cover photo courtesy of Rex Schultz By Jon Jonckers Across Spokane County, so many regional parks and trailheads underwent dramatic upgrades and improvements that it’s impossible to pick a favorite in 2025. Beginning last May, Liberty Lake Regional Park received an expanded and paved parking lot with 88 regular and three accessible parking spaces, new […]
By Jon Jonckers Cover photo courtesy of Jon Jonckers In the heart of downtown Spokane below the Monroe Street Bridge, tucked against the roaring Spokane Falls, is a stunning urban escape that offers both scenic beauty and historical significance. Originally established in the early 1970s as part of the Monroe Street Dam redevelopment in preparation
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Riverside State Park, Washington’s second-largest state park, makes outdoor adventures available to a wide range of visitors in the park’s nearly 10,000 acres of natural areas along the Spokane and Little Spokane rivers. With trailheads and facilities close to downtown Spokane, the park offers camping, hiking, mountain biking, running, bird-watching, swimming, fishing, ORV riding and
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Cover photo courtesy of Riverside State Park Foundation New to this fall’s recreation line-up, “The GRIND,” a gravel circuit race, is coming to Riverside State Park. The start and finish are at the Seven Mile Airstrip, home of the successful 24-Hour MTB and Wednesday night MTB races. This race is a collective brainstorming effort from
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Cover photo courtesy of The Boulevard Race The Boulevard Race returns to Spokane for its third year on Sept. 21, bringing runners and walkers together in the fight against cancer. The four-mile event winds through the heart of downtown’s University District. Participants will take in tree-lined streets, the sweeping Gateway Bridge and views of the
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By Amy McCaffree Cover photo courtesy of Laura Carey During an early morning run on July 16, 2025, local runner Sarah Clark Doxey, 48, was struck by a vehicle along the shoulder of South Perry Avenue on Spokane’s South Hill, east of Manito Golf Course. She later died at the hospital. She is survived by
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Lithium-ion batteries power many of the devices we use daily (from electric scooters and bikes to tools and portable electronics), but improper disposal of these batteries can pose serious fire and safety hazards. “Fires caused by lithium-ion batteries are very difficult to extinguish and pose significant additional risks to firefighters,” says Lance Dahl, Fire Marshal
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By Bradley Bleck Cover photo courtesy of Bradley Bleck When it comes to bicycling safety in Spokane, the often negative perception is far from the reality. That negative perception is often fueled by a fear that many drivers are unwilling to share the road. The fact of the matter is that in Spokane and the
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By Justin Short Cover photo courtesy of Justin Short The Great Spokane Shop Ride (GSSR) is a sort of hair scramble event in which riders gather on the second Saturday in April (the 12th this year) at the Riverfront Park clock tower to receive a stamp card, and at the stroke of 10 a.m. they
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By Paul Delaney Cover photo courtesy of Paul Delaney Mother Nature seems to want to protect as best as possible a picturesque canyon south of Spokane that contains Latah Creek. The stream’s banks are largely private property criss-crossed by barbed wire. Access from above is also limited. That leaves the creek itself as the only
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