Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes

Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes
Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes
	Crossing Lake Coeur d'Alene on the Chatcolet Bridge, a long wooden trestle bridge with a 1921-built, former-swing-span truss bridge section
Length	73 miles (117 km)
Location	Northern Idaho, U.S.
Established	March 2004
Designation	Idaho state park
Trailheads	Mullan (east); Plummer (west)47°30′35″N 116°32′13″W / 47.50972°N 116.53694°W
Use	Biking, inline skating, hiking
Highest point	3,280 ft (1,000 m) (Mullan)
Lowest point	2,200 ft (670 m) (Harrison)
Difficulty	Easy
Season	Year-round
Sights	Silver Valley, Lake Coeur d'Alene, ; Heyburn State Park, Palouse
Surface	Asphalt
Maintained by	Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation
Website	Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes

The Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes is a rail trail in the Idaho Panhandle of the United States. It follows the right-of-way of the former Union Pacific Railroad from Mullan, a mountain mining town near the Montana border, westward to Plummer, a town on the prairie near the Washington border.^[1]^[2] Generally following the Coeur d'Alene River, the rail line was abandoned in 1991,^[3] and the trail officially opened in March 2004.^[4]

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