From LA Times to the Lake City - LA Times Spotlights Coeur d'Alene in Sunday's Travel Section
This past Sunday there was a wonderful write-up in the Los Angeles Times about the wonders of Coeur d'Alene as a vacation destination. Reporter Christopher Reynolds spent some time in town and wrote a delightful feature on our little part of the world. I loved his introduction -
"Say yes to huckleberries, yes to lazy days by the lake, yes to fast bikes on long trails.
Say no to fancy French pronunciation. Say no, also, to white supremacy. And say no, thank you, to the Rocky Mountain oysters at the Snake Pit restaurant east of town, unless you like bull testicles.
Follow this simple advice, and you'll probably do just fine here in the middle of the Idaho panhandle, where the lakeside city of Coeur d'Alene (pronounced core-DA-lane) draws travelers and second-homers from all over the West."
I loved growing up here, running amok in, on and around the lake in our little obscure tourist town. It was a paradise. Good-bye, obscurity. The cat's been out of the bag for a long time, in a large part due to publicity like this LA Times article and frequent placement on a myriad of Best Of lists.
There is a noticeable segment of our friendly population that are California transplants. This article is certain to garner more attention from potential California escapees. Not everyone here is thrilled to welcome the slow and steady influx of new neighbors, but most do recognize the benefits that the newcomers bring with them. As for me - my mom and dad loaded up five kids in the station wagon and fled southern California for beautiful Coeur d'Alene in 1965. Thanks mom and dad!
As a tourist town in a sluggish economy, things are not quite booming, but around town folks are saying that the decline isn't much, maybe 2%. Hotels and tourist attractions are seeing a big increase in regional tourists from around the pacific northwest. Families are taking vacations closer to home, to destinations where they can reach by car on a day's drive. For anyone considering purchasing a vacation home, there are more waterfront homes for sale right now on area lakes than anyone can ever remember. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that slow moving + high inventory = incredible bargains.
To read the entire Los Angeles Times article, click here. It's a great article and paints a very pretty, and accurate, picture of the reasons why I feel so blessed to call north Idaho home!
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