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Take a Step Back in Time in Wallace, Idaho
Idaho To visit this remarkably preserved town is to step back into the turn of the century. Indeed, the entire downtown district, a virtual compendium of architectural styles, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One can take a self-guiding walking tour of 38 historic buildings constructed…
Read Full Story »Historic Wallace, Idaho
Few places are as emboldened with history, recreation and natural beauty as the path Interstate 90 cuts across the panhandle of North Idaho. The Silver Valley of North Idaho offers much at an enjoyable pace and values rarely found in today’s travels. The hub of the region is the last town entirely…
Read Full Story »North Idaho TravelCast: Wallace, Idaho
Wallace Idaho was featured on the Idaho Travel Network, a website dedicated to visitors and locals sharing travel experiences in North Idaho.
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Taking the High Road
Okay, so before I started, I was a little afraid of the Hiawatha Trail in Idaho (a mountainous state in the US, bordering Canada), given its long, dark tunnels, high trestles and gravel roadbed. Well, turns out that the tunnel is more like fun. But it’s also haunted….I think. The trestles sure…
Read Full Story »Wallace Inn: Wallace, Idaho
In addition to serving as director of operations at the Wallace Inn, Rick Shaffer has another title–prime minister of historic Wallce, Idaho. In filling both roles, the longtime tourism professional knows customer service is priority one.
Read Full Story »Destination: Wallace, Idaho
If you traveled east on I-90 through Idaho from 1967 to 1991, you’ll remember Wallace, Idaho, the mountain town that defied and then finessed the federal government out of running the interstate straight through town. Led by the late Harry Magnuson, the town’s elders managed to get every single building…
Read Full Story »Wallace featured in Great Places in America: Streets
During the course of its 126-year history, Bank Street has brushed up against fate — and total ruin — three times. The street was rebuilt twice after two devastating forest fires around the turn of the 20th century, including the largest in U.S. history in 1910. Sixty years later, Bank Street…
Read Full Story »Trail of the Month: October 2010
For trail lovers around the country, these two Idaho rail-trails hardly need an introduction: the 73-mile Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes and the 15-mile Route of the Hiawatha. They’ve been featured multiple times in Rails to Trails magazine, and in countless “Tell Us” responses, letters and summer remembrances.…
Read Full Story »America's Coolest Small Towns
Preservation and industriousness are key in Wallace, a former mining town in northwest Idaho where every single building (including a brothel that closed its doors in 1988 after pressure from the Feds) is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Oasis Bordello Museum remains trapped in time,…
Read Full Story »Full steam ahead along the Milwaukee Road
Pedaling into Taft Tunnel, which burrows beneath the Bitterroot Mountains at the Montana-Idaho border, my sons and I quickly plunged into blackness. Scents of damp rock, the sounds of water running down the walls and an abrupt drop in temperature enveloped us in otherworldliness.
Read Full Story »Get tunnel vision in Idaho
The Bitterroot Mountains of northern Idaho aren’t terrifically hospitable, and getting the railroad through here back in the early 1900s — a necessary task to better connect the industrial cities of the Great Lakes with the Pacific Northwest — was no easy feat. In one 15-mile stretch…
Read Full Story »Head North to Wallace
A manhole cover at the intersection of Bank and Sixth streets in downtown Wallace declares the town to be “The Center of the Universe” - a claim most visitors will cheerfully dismiss as local boosterism. However, for the next few weeks, Wallace will definitely be the focus of the firefighting world.…
Read Full Story »Brake for these towns
Up here in the Idaho Panhandle, Sandpoint and other lake resorts get all the press. But Wallace is a gem. The silver-mining capital’s 19th-century downtown is on the National Register of Historic Places, and there’s great outdoor recreation like the Route of the Hiawatha - one of the country’s most…
Read Full Story »10 great places to (bike) ride the rails
This beautiful trail includes the 1.7-mile St. Paul Pass tunnel, so bring a bike light. There’s also the magnificent Clear Creek trestle, a 760-foot span that stands 220 feet high. There’s even a shuttle so you don’t have to pedal back to the start. skilookout.com/hiawatha
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March 23, 2011 | Take a Step Back in Time in Wallace, Idaho
Idaho To visit this remarkably preserved town is to step back into the turn of the century. Indeed, the entire downtown district, a virtual compendium of architectural styles, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One can take a self-guiding walking tour of 38 historic buildings constructed…
Read Full Story »January 01, 2011 | Historic Wallace, Idaho
Few places are as emboldened with history, recreation and natural beauty as the path Interstate 90 cuts across the panhandle of North Idaho. The Silver Valley of North Idaho offers much at an enjoyable pace and values rarely found in today’s travels. The hub of the region is the last town entirely…
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