Our City by the Lake

Providing beauty, resources and security. By Dwayne Parsons

One of the internationally recognized features of Coeur d’Alene is its attachment to this beautiful recreational Lake Coeur d’Alene, making it known as the City by the Lake or the Lake City. Certainly, there are other towns in the interior U.S that make this claim, but few that have garnered the ambiance of water attachment as well as our city has done.

Four of the contributing factors are found right along the waterfront. Certainly noteworthy is the Coeur d’Alene Resort Hotel with its excellent and extensive enclosed marina around which you can walk on our now famous boardwalk.

But we have an excellent public beach as well, with a grand well-kept park right behind it. This park and public beach area are located right next to the hotel/marina making access to the lake open for everyone.

Just beyond that, with an easy walk through a small aesthetically beautiful neighborhood, is North Idaho College; an increasingly noteworthy school of higher learning.

Just east and south of the hotel is yet another newly developed park and our traditionally preserved Tubbs Hill, around which a lakefront hiking trail gives one a true look at and feel for the magnificent size and recreational value this lake has to offer.

Water Defines the Community

For people looking at or considering a move to North Idaho, this abundance of water in the region is highly attractive, especially to those who visit or learn about us from drought-stricken areas such as Southern California all the way through Kansas.

When you consider that some cities in the drought areas may soon run out of water entirely, the abundance of water resources in the Coeur d’Alene area is a significant point of interest not only to families and people who live in those less fortunate areas, but to many businesses that depend on water to produce or supply products and services.

It’s Not Just the Lake

It’s not just Lake Coeur d’Alene that makes this difference in the region. The Panhandle of Idaho has two more large bodies of water as well, and actually a fourth beneath it. Priest Lake and Lake Pend Oreille are points of pride and wonderful places to recreate as well. Each has its own character and ambiance.

But the fourth large body of water is the Spokane Aquifer, a huge underground fresh water resource that flows beneath the larger Rathdrum Prairie on its subterranean journey toward the Columbia River drainage. This resource is among the largest, best water reserves in the world, making it an important asset to Coeur d’Alene and the surrounding communities, including Spokane.

Water Provides Security

On the surface, yes, it contributes directly to the aesthetic values and contributes directly to the ways of life chosen by the diverse population that lives and works in Idaho’s Panhandle.

Beneath all that, it provides a sense of security that the lifestyles we enjoy here will perpetuate; that we have a safe place to live, a place where raising a family is a good thing and work is a balance with recreational release.

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