Vista House Beverage Service Hike to the summit of Mount Spokane and enjoy breathtaking, 360-degree views of the region as your reward, along with an ice beverage to cool you off after all that physical exertion on a hot day. For the first time ever, staff at Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park are offering a pop-up bar at the historic Vista House every Saturday afternoon in August. The rock-walled structure, listed on the Spokane and the National Register of Historic Places, was completed in 1933 and is accessible from summit trails and by car, but whichever transport mode you take, don’t forget your Discover Pass. During the event’s kickoff this weekend, featured brews are No-Li Brewhouse’s Threezy Does It, a low-calorie hazy IPA, and its Day Fade huckleberry lemonade seltzer (PSA: Huckleberries are ripe now all over the mountain, so bring your buckets!). Sixteen-ounce pours of either are $6, and other options include $6 microbrew cans, $5 canned domestics, plus wa
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The aftermath of the windstorm in Audubon Park.
Credit Doug Nadvornick/SPR
After a devastating January windstorm knocked down hundreds of trees in the city, the Spokane Park system plans to replant them – two trees for every one that fell.
Katie Kosanke, Spokane’s urban forester, says trees protect the river and air from pollution, and provide an important cooling effect for the community.
“They have lots of environmental, social and economic benefits that they provide. They really are a green infrastructure asset in our community.”
The park system lost 200 in the storm and hopes to have 400 re-planted by spring of next year.
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