Athol Chamber
Box 121, Athol, ID 83801

Bayview Chamber
Box 121, Bayview, ID 83803
(208) 683-22001

Bureau of Land Management
(208) 769-5000

Coeur d'Alene Visitor & Convention Services
1621 N. 3rd. Street, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
(208) 664-3194
(877) 782-9232.

CDA River Ranger Dist./Fernan
(208) 769-3000
www.fs.fed.us/outernet/IPNF

Gateway Northwest Visitor Center
(208) 769-1537

Idaho State Parks
(208)769-1511

North Idaho Tourism Alliance
(888) 333.3737
www.visitnorthidaho.com

Post Falls Chamber of Commerce
Box 908, Post Falls, ID 83854
(208)773-5016

Convention & Visitors Bureau
Box 908, Post Falls, ID 83877
(208) 773-4080
(800) 292-2553

Rathdrum Chamber of Commerce
Box 850, Rathdrum, ID 83858
(208)687-2866

Public Libraries

Kootenai County - Coeur d'Alene

Local Facts
Population: 138,494
Fort Sherman established in 1878.
Lake Coeur d’Alene 120 ft. deep, 25 miles long & over 135 miles of shoreline.
Coeur d’ Alene - Early French explorers, impressed by the North Idaho Schee-Schu-Umsh Indians’ sharp trading practices, proclaimed the Schee-Schu-Umsch possessed hearts (Coeur) like an awl (d’Alene) – a sharp tool used to pierce and sew leather. Locals now abbreviate, writing it as CdA.

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Kootenai County - Post Falls

Post Falls is named for Frederick Post, a German immigrant who constructed a lumber mill along the Spokane River in 1871 on land he purchased from Andrew Seltice, Chief of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. The purchase of the land is preserved in a pictograph on a granite cliff in Treaty Rock park.

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