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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Flowery Trail - Little Pend Oreille NWR Super Side Trip

Traveling further west we drove to the town of Tiger, Washington, and took Highway WA20 to US 395 to Flowery Trail Road. Our first stop was at a beautiful National Forest Campground in Colville National Forest for lunch. The place was deserted so we took one of the premo campsites for lunch.
Little Pend Oreille Lakes
Crystal Falls
named for their appearance in winter,
is just east of the NWR.
Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge is named for the river that flows through its northern expanse. We spent a couple hours driving the 10 mile gravel tour road through this 40,000 acre refuge. This is the only mountainous, mixed-conifer forest refuge in the NWR system, outside of Alaska. This place is way out there, there is no cell phone service.
Barn remains from the 1890's Homestead
that once occupied a portion of the Refuge.
Auto Tour Overlook at Lake McDowell
We stopped at the Keller House Museum
In Colville, WA, but it was closed for the day.

3 comments:

Teri said...

I don't think we ever got up to Little Pend Oreille (a good excuse to go back!). Looks like they got a lot of snow this year. Everything is so pretty and green. How are you liking your Brig duties?

Virginia said...

We are really enjoying working at the Brig. We work 3 1/2 days a week, Wednesday afternoon til Saturday evening. We have the other half of the week off so we can explore. The other couple who are brig hosts are very nice and we are enjoying sharing Brig duties with them. The summer weather her in North Idaho is phenominal.

Teri said...

My favorite volunteer was Tyson! (Kim and Dave's dog) Is he there this year?
I'm glad you are enjoying your experience. It is a beautiful area.