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Heyburn State Park on Chatcolet Lake

Heyburn State Park on Chatcolet Lake

 

June 28, 2007.

We are staying in Coeur d'Alene at Blackwell Island RV Resort $30 for paved interior roads, FHU including cable and wifi. This is a top notch RV park that even allows you to wash your RV on site. Now that is something you do not see very often.

Today we are traveling north on US 95 between Lewiston, Idaho and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in our motorhome. Most of this drive is through prairie farms consisting of rolling hills and grain fields. However, two completely different ecosystems are saved for the public in the form of State Parks.

We dropped the motorhome in a roadside picnic area and took the Saturn to visit McCroskey State Park where we took the famous Skyline Drive.

After visiting McCroskey State Park and Skyline Drive we returned to the motorhome and continued on our journey toward Coeur d'Alene. We had one more stop to make before arriving in Coeur d'Alene and that was Plummer Creek Interpretive Area near Plummer, Idaho. I had information from somewhere about Plummer Creek being an area where they have saved a large grove (is grove the correct word) of 400 year-old Ponderosa Pine trees.

We located a place to drop the motorhome while we went exploring in the Saturn. This time things did not work out as planned. We never really located "Plummer Creek Interpretive Area" although we came close. It seems that Plummer Creek is only accessible via a walking or bike path which is 7-miles long. It appears that one can access the area from near the city of Plummer and on the eastern end of the trail on Heyburn Road in Heyburn State Park.

 

 

Heyburn State Park on Chatcolet Lake

Heyburn State Park on Chatcolet Lake

 

 

While trying to locate a road (that didn't exist) we drove through portions of Heyburn State Park on Chatcolet Lake 5-miles east of Plummer, Idaho. This part of the lake was providing excellent waterfowl habitat.

 

 

 

 

I had read about some 400-year old ponderosa pine trees in this area but did not realize that you could only reach them via a 7-mile walking trail. It is certainly amazing how some details are conveniently left out when promoting an area.

 

Old growth ponderosa pine

Heyburn State Park on Chatcolet Lake

 

 

 

 

 

We located the east end of the trail that takes you to the 400 year old ponderosa pine trees but this is the only "old growth" ponderosa pines we could spot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old growth Ponderosa Pines

Heyburn State Park on Chatcolet Lake

 

 

 

The 400-year old ponderosa pines must be somewhere along the walking/biking trail even though there was no indication, of any kind, that this old grove of Ponderosa Pines even existed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bottom line of this experience is that no one hits a home run with every try. The trail appeared to be a paved bike path so they could possibly be accessed with bicycles.

 

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