The Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes runs 72 miles from Plummer, Idaho, to Mullan, Idaho, via several lakes.
Thanks to Wes Moore for a partial GPS trace of this route, which has improved the map greatly between Plummer and Medimont.
Categories: Hilly & Over 50 Miles & Paved & Rural & Solitude
Last Modified: August 17, 2007
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
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Elevation profile of route: feet above sea level vs. distance traveled (approximate). Green marker on map above shows which end is designated as start of route.
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We did the Harrison to Medimount round trip ride last summer and I have a Garmin .gdb track of it. A good ride for a couple in their 60’s. We will be back there next week and I may have tracks of the Cataldo to Plummer portion (won’t do it all in one piece).
Let me know if you’d like what I have.
///Wes///
Very nice, fairly long trail. It’s probably too long for most people to round-trip in one day, but there’s towns at both ends, so you might be able to stay the night (depending on your standards - we’re not talking five star, here.) There are lots of wetlands along the way, with lots of interesting birds - we saw a bald eagle and about eight great blue herons on our ride. The part of the path that parallels the interstate is less beautiful, but still interesting, with many historical markers and old mining towns.
Contamination along the trail (from when it was a railroad) means that you can’t drink the water, so don’t bother with a water filter. There are towns where you can resupply at fairly wide intervals, as well as bathrooms and picnic tables along the trail at much closer ones (at least one every 10 miles.) There is at least one campground, which I believe is about 30 miles from the Mullan end.
Rode from Chatcolet campground up to Plummer, then back down, through Harrison to Gray’s Meadow last Sunday, 7/30/07 for total of 44 miles after a few side trips. Very nice ride. Chatcolet bridge is a hoot! Great compression on the stair-case and zero gravity coming off of the steps @ 20 mph. Take your own drinkable water, water at Heyburn St. Park is contaminated with e-coli and has warnings not to drink. Kathy L. M., sorry we missed on this one. Hope to make it up next time.
Jeff
The Friends of the Trail bike club page has listed for the last few weeks that the trail is closed from Harrison to Cataldo. A co-worker of mine checked it out last week and confirms that there is a major wash-out at about Gray’s Meadow that took out about 100 yards of the roadbed and a bunch of the local rancher’s pasture. Sounds like the trail between won’t be open this year. If anyone hears differently, please post.
Jeff