Nothing welcomes in the cycling season like riding your bike for 24 hours in an event that is something like Burning Man meets Bike Fair (replacing the illicit drugs of the former with the electrolyte mixtures of the latter). For the long Memorial Weekend, Riverside State Park turns into a veritable village of cyclists and […]
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Expand your outdoor education and skills know-how this June with Wednesdays in the Woods. Organized by Riverside State Park Foundation in collaboration with Washington State Parks, this popular program continues its momentum after last summer’s post-pandemic return. The 2023 list of free, family-friendly evening events include similar topics and speakers as in past years; however,
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(Sponsored post) A Spokane Memorial Weekend tradition, the 24 Hours of Riverside mountain bike race and mass mountain biker campout at Riverside State Park continues its renaissance Saturday and Sunday May 27-28, 2023. After a change of hands and COVID pause, new race organizers Patrick Bulger and Eric Ewing are psyched to keep the evolution
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Shortly after the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enhanced several portions of Riverside State Park, the 7 Mile Airfield was used as a practice field during WWII for American pilots who would later be landing and taking off on atolls in the Pacific. The retired airfield is about a kilometer wide and two kilometers long, and
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Free, family-friendly events every Wednesday evening in June 2022 at Riverside State Park’s Bowl & Pitcher area.
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All photos by Lucas Arnold For 20 years, the 24-hour mountain bike race at Riverside State Park was a Spokane mountain bike institution each spring. Then came the word that the 2019 event would be the end of an era. Long-time organizers Round and Round Productions had ridden the wave of 24-hour racing through the
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The Spokane region’s oldest and most recognized trail run, the Spokane River Run on the trails at Riverside State Park, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year on April 24, 2022! Whether you run it every year, haven’t signed up in a few years, or have always wanted to be a part of this awesome
Inland NW trail and conservation news for Nov.-Dec. 2021, including Sno-Park Permits, trail improvement updates, and Library Snowshoes.
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Welcome to The Trailhead, where we share important information about trails and outdoor recreation around the Inland NW. July-August 2021
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On Saturday, June 19, 2021, no entry fee to visit Washington State Parks, water-access sites, and other state-managed public lands.
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