North Idaho Centennial Trail:
Idaho
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Description:
The North Idaho Centennial Trail is a non-motorized, multi-use trail that meanders 24 miles between scenic Higgens Point State Park on Lake Coeur d'Alene (6 miles east of the city) and the Idaho–Washington border, where it joins the Liberty Lake Stateline Trail. The North Idaho Centennial Trail hugs the shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene and parts of the Spokane River, offering spectacular scenery along the way. The trail passes through the Lewis & Clark College and North Idaho College campuses and follows well-marked back streets in Coeur d'Alene. You'll find plenty of rest areas, scenic views and interpretative signs along the way. In 1999 Hillary Clinton designated the trail a Millennium Trail.

At Riverstone you can pick up the Prairie Trail.

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Parking & Trail Access:
Parking and access for the North Idaho Centennial Trail are available at numerous places along its route, including Post Falls, Coeur d'Alene and Higgens Point State Park. For more information, consult the map.

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By Manfred Leykamm in August, 2008
In your Trail Facts box you list the CT (Centennial Trail) as 15 miles long where it is 23 miles.

I am a local cyclist who rides the trail regularly and I find any reviews posted before 2006 are no longer valid. Yes the CT roughly follows I-90, but the only place really close to it are two sections of about one mile total in Washington State. The Washington Centennial trail is a totally separate trail, even though they join at the state line.
There are a few areas where the trail follows residential streets with one difficult road crossing, the problems of which are being addressed. Several sections of the CT in Coeur-d'Alene have been resolved since the last reviews. The CT has now been re-routed around the new Riverstone development negating the whole Seltice Way/Northwest Blvd intersection. and has also been re-routed along the Spokane River through the Lewis & Clark College and North Idaho College areas, It goes through well marked back streets of Coeur d'Alene and along the lake to Higgins Point.

Intersecting the CT at Riverstone is the brand new 4.5 mile Prairie Trail which opens up a whole new segment of the city and gives acess to the country roads of the Rathdrum Prarie.

As a whole I and my wife find the North Idaho Centennial trail a safe and outstanding bicycling opportunity, and I am writing from 50 years of cycling experience.

Manfred Leykamm
Good ride
By Frank lamoso in September, 2006
Good ride compared to many.
"""No good"" review correction"
By Jim Dettwiler in July, 2005
"There is about a mile central section of the North Idaho portion of the Centennial Trail that is on secondary arterials and residential streets, but it is mostly separate paved bike trail. There are also two sections within sight of I-90, but ""ten feet"" is inaccurate."
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