Bitterroot Bonanza - Idaho

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Bitterroot Bonanza is featured as one of National Geographic Adventure's "25 Best New Trips"! For the first time ever, North Idaho’s world class Rails-to-Trails system is linked into a superb itinerary that combines a bike tour with rafting and kayaking. This is an ideal family trip and since this is our own backyard, you can be sure we’ll have plenty of su...
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Overview

Trip type
Small Group Tour
Lodging level
Standard - 3 star
Physical level
Extreme
Trip pace
Balanced schedule

Highlights

    • Explore North Idaho is a land of lakes, forests, mountains and spectacular scenery.
    • Most of the bike touring we do on this trip is on level trails. This is the beauty of bike trails that have been made from converted railroads!
    • We start with a ride along the scenic Spokane River in eastern Washington, in a gorge of pines and dramatic basalt geology.
    • Experience another day of biking along the Coeur d’Alene River provides chances for wildlife viewing and peaceful breaths of fresh mountain air.
    • The 15-mile bike path follows the route of the old Milwaukee Railroad, one of the most daring railroads ever built in America.

What's this trip about?

    Bitterroot Bonanza is featured as one of National Geographic Adventure's "25 Best New Trips"! For the first time ever, North Idaho’s world class Rails-to-Trails system is linked into a superb itinerary that combines a bike tour with rafting and kayaking. This is an ideal family trip and since this is our own backyard, you can be sure we’ll have plenty of surprises and special treats throughout your journey. Along the way, you'll dine out and stay at local hotels. The trip starts in Spokane, Washington with a bike ride on the Washington/Idaho Centennial Trail along the Spokane River. We reach the resort town of Coeur d'Alene, on Lake Coeur d'Alene with time to play in the lake. The next day we enjoy a half-day kayak trip and then bicycle tour of the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes, one of the jewels of the National Rails-to-Trails system. We trade our pedals for paddles and raft the scenic and tumbling Clark Fork - or St. Joe, depending on the time of year you join us - one of the region's most popular whitewater river trips suitable for rafters of all ages! Then a spectacular day on the historical Hiawatha Trail, where you will bike through tunnels and across dramatic trestles spanning canyons of the Bitterroot Mountains on the Idaho/Montana border. The trail is not far from the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, one of the largest protected areas in the United States. At the end we return you to Spokane where your adventure began. This Bitterroot Bonanza bike adventure has plenty to offer in 5 days full of outdoors, history and activities. Click on the itinerary tab for more details of this Bitterroot Mountain Multisport adventure!

Details

Itinerary focusActive and Outdoor Sports
Group sizeStandard Group - 25 + people
Age range8 years and up
Flights and transportAll internal ground transport included
Start CitySpokane, Washington
End CitySpokane, Washington

Travel Themes

  • Cycling & Biking
  • Family Friendly
  • Hiking & Walking
  • National Parks
  • Nature & Wildlife
  • Rafting, Kayaking, Canoeing

Destinations

  • North America
  • United States

Attractions

  • Idaho

Activities

  • Cycling
  • Kayaking
  • Nature
  • Rafting
  • Wildlife viewing

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Itinerary

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Day: 1

Meals: Lunch and Dinner

Accommodations: Coeur d'Alene Resort or similar

Today’s bike ride is on the Washington/Idaho Centennial Trail that goes from the west of Spokane all the way to eight miles east of Coeur d'Alene. From our hotel in Spokane, we make ...

Day: 2

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodations: Local Harrison hotel.

Trading pedals for paddles we jump into touring kayaks for a three-hour paddle on the blue waters of Lake Coeur d’Alene. You paddle through an active osprey breeding area where we w...

Day: 3

Accommodations: Wallace Inn or similar.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

We ride about 35 miles today at a leisurely pace through marshes and along the Coeur d’Alene Chain lakes and river while learning about the mining legacy of the area. A special vi...

Day: 4

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodations: Wallace Inn or similar.

This morning we load up for an 1 ½ hour drive across Lookout Pass to go rafting on the Clark Fork River - or St. Joe River, depending on the time of year you join us - in Montana,...

(14-mile paddle)

Day: 5

Accommodations: Overnight in Spokane, Washington (hotel not included).

A short drive back to the Idaho/Montana border gets us to the historic and spectacular Hiawatha Trail. We start at the East Portal trailhead and immediately enter the two-mile long Taft Tunn...

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Price From $1,895
Price per day$379
Last Updated: 2/23/2024

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If there is water, there is ROW Adventures! While we started out as a Northwest whitewater rafting company in 1979, we have since expanded our reach to include tours on five continents and over 25 countries. Our ultimate focus is providing life-enriching journeys around the world that not only benefit you, but also our guides, and the people and places we visit. Rated by National Geographic Adventure as one of the “Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth,” and voted “World’s Best Tour Operator” by Travel & Leisure magazine readers, we continue to pioneer new trips and ways of adventuring in both popular and remote places of the world.

ROW offers a wide variety of trips that cater to many different activities - rafting, kayaking, hiking, biking, fishing, multisport, etc. – interests – family-focused vacations, lodge-based tours, wildlife viewing, custom itineraries – and locations – camping in the Galapagos Islands, hiking in Machu Picchu, ecolodges in the Amazon, safaris in Africa, yachting in Europe, wildlife viewing in Antarctica, sea kayaking in Baja, kayaking with orcas in British Columbia, and more.

At our core, we are all about “sharing nature, enriching lives.” We strives to connect you to the places we visit in a meaningful and personally relevant way, inspiring you to be a part of the culture and lifestyle, and creating a safe-space for you to grow and gain new insight through your travel experiences.

The driving force behind our company is a team of people passionate about travel and customer service. Setting the pace and tone are the original ROW owners and founders Peter Grubb and his life partner Betsy Bowen. With our superlative team who have an average of eight years of guiding experience, many with extensive wilderness medical training, and natural and cultural history interpretation training in order to share a deeper understanding and appreciation for the incredible places you visit, we continue to set the high watermark in adventure and guest service.

ROW has a high guide-to-guest ratio, allowing our guides to be more involved with you – joining in on meals, ensuring your comfort, answering questions, telling stories, entertaining, and sharing in on the fun and adventure. And not only are our guides there to lead the adventure, they also do all of the heavy lifting, food preparation, gear transfers, camp setup, and more, so that you can focus on your vacation.

Our guides prepare each meal for you using fresh, healthy ingredients, and there is beer and wine to boot. Luxury camping, with spacious tents, dining tables, chairs and sun showers, provides a high level of comfort even when you’re exploring remote wilderness areas. ROW provides all camping gear including tents, sleeping bags, and thick foam mattresses, and watercraft for our trips; you just need to bring clothes, yourself, and enjoy being on your adventure! And of course, we are passionately dedicated to “Leave No Trace” camping ethics and supporting a variety of conservation efforts around the world. 

We have it all covered, and we are here to provide you with the best travel experience out there. But don’t take our word for it; check out our reviews, join us for an adventure, and go home with incredible experiences and lifelong memories!

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Guides Like No Others Your trip is enriched by knowledgeable guides who share the area's cultural and natural history. No other company trains guides like we do, and most of our guides are also Certified Interpretive Guides through the National Association for Interpretation.
Cancellation policy

Cancellation Policy:

If you find it necessary to cancel your trip, please notify us as soon as possible. If written cancellation is received by ROW (call to verify) before the final balance is due, you will be given a refund less the amount of deposit. Deposits are non-refundable. If cancellations are made on or after the final due date, no money will be refunded. You are welcome to find a replacement for yourself. Please understand that once you’ve signed up, we lose the right to sell your reserved spaces to other individuals or groups. Therefore, we regret that we cannot make exceptions for personal emergencies. For this reason we a strongly recommend you consider purchasing a travel protection plan.

 

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We offer a comprehensive cancellation and trip protection plan through our office and recommend this coverage which protects your payments if you have to cancel for medical or other covered reasons.

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Meals Included

3 Breakfasts, 4 Lunches and 4 Dinners

Age Requirements
8 years and up
Additional Information

From July forward when your rafting leg is on the Clark Fork, it's an excellent family trip. Give us a call if you'd like to get more details; we'd be happy to chat with you!

Much of this trip is along rivers and lakes. Thus it's common to see osprey, great blue herons, bald eagles, ducks and other birds. With some luck we may even see deer and beaver. When we ride along the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes, from the town of Harrison north, there's the chance to see moose too! On the Lake Coeur d'Alene kayaking tour we paddle beneath the nests of osprey, and and in June and July you might see their chicks in the nest.

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