A small picnic shelter (25 person max.) located off of the beach may be reserved by calling 20.Ĭheckout time is 12PM. Amenities include drinking water, flush toilets and showers. 36 are standard non-electric, with two walk-to sites. Springy Point Campground offers 38 shady campsites near the water. The city of Sandpoint is just a short trip across the water and offers a marina, parks, shopping and plenty of sightseeing opportunities. I will let you know tomorrow.Springy Point Campground is situated amid firs, cedars and pines overlooking the Pend Oreille River with views of the Cabinet and Selkirk Mountains. I think dinner that will work out just fine. Well, we perused the camp store with its meager supplies and have come up with a menu for this. Figuring out how to get food and how much to carry is always an issue, and that we are headed into Grizzly country is another we need to fit all of our smelly items into our Urs Sack, bear bag, as some of the more remote campsites do not have beer boxes - why not? We are not opposed to storing food in the bathroom we have done this before, but still. The only problem is that we did not anticipate this and did not plan to have food for this stay. We have water, a pool, fire pit, nice people and a lake to swim in sounds pretty good. Well, here we are decision made, and we will live with it. We did have an “oh shit” moment this morning when we thought it was going to take us 71 days to get to our final destination, but then I realized I did not subtract the days we already did…dah! This all started because we decided to take this layover, and wondered if we were ready for one and whether we could afford it considering that there might be places we might like better, or because we may have to take unexpected ones due to whether or other circumstances. Once at camp, we drank our beers, ate dinner, socialized with some nice folks from Montana and Wisconsin, and tried to figure out the next few days…fluidity is the name of the game here. We are used to doing gravel on the bikes and actually have a bit of it coming up on our journey through Idaho and Montana. After a couple miles of gravel, we were back on pavement and not far from camp. Things got interesting at Higgins…if we had used the Garmin, we would have left the trail earlier, but Gigi needed to mixed things up and routed us on a narrow trail, like a goat trail, which paralleled the highway then into a neighborhood which lead to Yellowstone Trail 17, a gravel road. The trail is twenty-three miles long extending from Idaho/Washington state line to Higgins Point. After using the bathroom and getting water, we were routed on the North Idaho Centennial Trail it followed Lake Coeur d’ Alene. It is similar to Sandpoints’ but not as scenic. Anyway, we made it to the waterfront of Coeur d’ Alene, and that was very pleasant. Then, I think Gigi thought we were getting too comfortable so she threw us on surface streets in a business district with no shoulder, lots of shopping traffic where cars were often making turns in and out of businesses in front of us…never fun. Eventually, outside of Hawthorn, Idaho - not far from Coeur d’Alene, we picked up a bike path that followed the freeway. Soon after, however, we were able to deviate to the Old 95 route, which paralleled 95 most of the way. Lakeshore Drive from Springy was really pleasant we did have to hop on US 95 for a bit, but there was an ample shoulder. We did download GPX tracks, and now we are back on our route, so we can also use our phones more.Īfter making our way around the detour, we had some nice backcountry roads. We are having to manage battery power in all our devices, so that comes into play as the Garmin is old and runs out of power within six hours, so we resort to the phone. Why didn’t we use our Garmin for the route that Mike had already researched…? I don’t know probably because we were off course to start. I think Gigi has it in for us because she has lead us astray a few times on this trip she knows we like dirt, so she keeps challenging us with interesting routes. We were using Google Maps with Gigi navigating we call the narrating feature Gigi - we use the “she” pronoun for Gigi…like Siri. We did not originally plan to stay at Springy CG, so we needed to change our route slightly to accommodate for the change well, we should have spent a bit more time thinking about the route because we ended up back at the detour from the day before…This meant a few more miles but it was manageable, so we did more than I posted, but that seems routine at this point. Yesterday was actually a pretty good riding day with some interesting navigation. Today is Friday, and we have decided to take an unexpected layover day at Camp Coeur d’Alene after Thursday’s ride from Sandpoint.
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