Inland NW links
Retail & consumer
- Coeur d'Alene Resort
http://www.cdaresort.com/
- Large, sophisticated, and expensive destination resort hotel dominating the city's lakefront, including a marina and golf course. Great place to watch the area's largest July 4th fireworks display, fired from a barge in the lake.
- Davenport Hotel
http://www.thedavenporthotel.com/
- Spokane's grand hotel of the early and mid 20th century, host to presidents and movie stars, closed for years, restored and reopened by local developer Walt Worthy.
- Hotel Lusso
http://www.hotellusso.com/
- Lusso is Italian for luxury.
- Montvale Hotel
http://www.montvalehotel.com/
- Built in 1899 and renovated in 2004.
- Arbor Crest Wine Cellars
http://www.arborcrest.com/
- At the Cliff House on the edge of the bluff above Plante's Ferry, with great views; see the site for directions.
- Barrister Winery
http://www.barristerwinery.com/
- Home URL leads to a splash page, which is sort of 1997.
- Caterina Winery
http://www.caterinawinery.com/
- Wordy title of home page doesn't identify the winery. Your page title is important because it becomes your user's bookmark title. It looks like somebody confused the title tag with meta keyword and description tags, which were abused, have been ignored by search engines for years, and aren't used any more.
- Grande Ronde Cellars
http://www.granderondecellars.com/
- Flash on the homepage, best on broadband.
- Knipprath Cellars
http://www.knipprathcellars.com/
- Splash page with video, with a
skip intro link.
- Latah Creek Winery
http://www.latahcreek.com/
- Video with sound on the homepage, best on broadband and not at work.
- Lone Canary Winery
http://www.lonecanary.com/
- Mountain Dome Winery
http://www.mountaindome.com/
- Robert Karl Cellars
http://robertkarl.com/
- Townshend Cellar
http://www.townshendcellar.com/
- Spokane Winery Association
http://www.spokanenwineries.net/
- This site is supposed to have its own dialup-friendly pages about all of the above wineries, including directions.
- Dry Fly Distilling
http://www.dryflydistilling.com/
- The first distillery in Washington since Prohibition. Not a winery, of course, but this seemed like the place to put it.
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- 2nd Look Books
http://www.2ndlookbooks.com/
- Used books.
- Auntie's Books
http://store.auntiesbooks.com/
- New and used books; evening author readings; accepts selected used books for store credit.
- Defunct Books
http://www.defunctbooks.com/
- Used books.
- Merlyn's SciFi/Fantasy
http://www.merlyns.biz/
- Fantasy, SF, games, cards, comics, novels and collectables.
- Northwest Maps
http://www.nwmaps.com/
- Way cool interactive site; they also publish spiral-bound map books for Spokane and Kootenai counties, similar to Thomas Guides. The Thomas books formerly didn't cover the Inland Northwest, and they now have a Spokane & Coeur d'Alene street guide, but get Northwest Maps' own map books, whereever they have coverage: they're easier to use and more accurate.
- Uncle's Games
http://www.unclesgames.com/
- Locations include downtown in the same building as Auntie's Books, Spokane valley, others.
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Farmers markets feature locally-grown produce, flowers, and sometimes ready-to-eat stuff.
- Spokane Farmers Market
http://www.spokanefarmersmarket.org/
- Wednesday and Saturday mornings, May to October, downtown.
- Kootenai County Farmers Market
http://www.kootenaicountyfarmersmarket.com/
- Wednesdays and Saturdays, March to October, US95 at Prairie Ave in Hayden.
- Moscow Farmers Market
http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/M1943
- South Perry Farmers Market (Spokane)
http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/M14177
- In the South Perry neighborhood.
- Washington State Farmers Market Association
http://www.wafarmersmarkets.com/
- Now with a nice Market Locator resource.
- Green Bluff Growers
http://www.greenbluffgrowers.com/
- North Spokane County: U-pick fruit from June through the summer and fall; apples, berries, corn, vegetables; pies and pastries; special events. They publish a yearly brochure with map, that you should be able to find at area supermarkets.
- HearthBread BakeHouse
http://www.hearthbreadbakehouse.com/
- Breads baked in Spokane from hard spring wheat grown locally in compliance with
Food Alliance sustainable agriculture standards, on the shelf in local supermarkets. Unfortunately, the one loaf I tried so far ("multi-grain") had a little more than twice as much sodium as Snyder's Cracked Wheat, the commercial bread I buy when I don't bake my own.
- Fresh Abundance
http://www.freshabundance.com/
- Membership-based local and organic foods store.
- Shepherd's Grain
http://www.shepherdsgrain.com/
- An alliance of mid-size no-till sustainable wheat farmers in the region.
- Open Heart Ranch
http://www.openheartranch.com/
- Clark's Recycling
http://www.we-recycle.com/
- Earthworks Recycling
http://www.earthworksrecycling.com/
- Pacific Steel & Recycling
http://www.pacific-recycling.com/
- Spokane Recycling
http://www.spokanerecycling.com/
- Spokane Solid Waste Systems
http://www.solidwaste.org/
- Spokane has curbside recycling pickup with spiffy blue bins, including newspaper and milk jugs; also trash collection, transfer stations and incinerator plant.
- Northtown Mall
http://www.northtownmall.com/
- Largest mall in the area, in North Spokane at Division and Wellesley;
Regal cineplex, parking garages.
- River Park Square
http://www.riverparksquare.com/
- Downtown Spokane vertical-style upscale mall, plush 20-screen
AMC cineplex, and parking garage, including the local
Nordstrom store and a
Godiva chocolates boutique.
- Silver Lake Mall
http://www.silverlakemall.com/
- Off US95 just north of Coeur d'Alene, about halfway to Hayden, east side of the highway.
- Spokane Valley Mall
http://www.spokanevalleymall.com/
- North side of I-90 between the Evergreen and Sullivan exits, with a Regal cineplex. Easiest access of the local malls, although it's as jammed as the rest during the Christmas shopping rush.
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