Discover the the 75 best day hikes in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, all within an hour's drive from Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, or Sandpoint. The Inland Northwest is a great place to hike, with mountains, rivers, and lakes forming a diverse and breathtaking geography for trails. The 75 day hikes in this full-color guidebook are rated from easy to extreme, giving first-time or veteran hikers the variety they want, and include as topographical maps, trail descriptions, and more. Here is complete information for 75 great day hikes within driving distance from Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, or Sandpoint, including: • Deep Creek Canyon • Dishman Hills • Fish Lake • Lake Coeur d'Alene • Lake Pend Oreille • and more! The Day Hike! series of full-color hiking guides was written for people who want to spend their days in the mountains and their nights at home. Other titles in the Day Hike! series include: Day Hike! Central Cascades Day Hike Inland Northwest: Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, and Sandpoint Day Hike! Mount Rainier Day Hike! North Cascades Day Hike! Olympic Peninsula "One guidebook no self-respecting Inland Northwesterner should be without."  —The Inlander "[Most guidebooks are by] backpackers who occasionally day hike. But most people are day-hikers, who occasionally backpack. And that's the key difference to this series." —Ron C. Judd "The series...earns points for rating each individual trip on a five-scale and for providing a comparative overview of all hikes in each book's introductory pages. For those of us who like to cherry-pick trails, ratings simplify our task." —Seattle Times "The presentation of basic facts (distance, elevation gain, maps, permits, etc.) is excellent and easy to follow. In addition to helpful topographical maps, the guides feature elevation profiles - an inspired addition!" —The Olympian "The Day Hike! series, published by Sasquatch Books, is my favorite resource for finding a great hike to do with my girlfriends or family. The hikes are listed by location, with an overall rating, a rating for difficulty, the elevation gain, hike distance, best season and approximate hiking time. With colorful pictures and fun maps, even my six-year-old son loves looking at these books." —Northwest Healthy Mama SEABURY BLAIR JR. spent many years as the outdoor columnist for The Bremerton Sun , where one of his most popular features was the “Hike o’ the Month.” He is an avid backcountry skier and hiker, and lives in Spokane, WA. He is also the author of Wild Roads Washington; the Creaky Knees Guide series of easy hiking books (titles cover Washington, Oregon, and Pacific Northwest National Parks and Monuments); the Day Hike! series of easy hikes that you can do in a day (titles cover the Central Cascades, the North Cascades, Mount Rainier, the Olympic Peninsula, the Columbia Gorge, and Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) . INTRODUCTION A whole bunch of things can happen in six years. Shoot, a whole universe flipped somersaults in the last four years. Say the “P” word with me. Six years ago, this space described a seventy-five-year-old waddler and his slightly younger partner, B. B. Hardbody, hiking seventy-five trails around Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, and Sandpoint during the summer of 2016. Now, at eighty-one (and slightly younger) we’ve retraced our footsteps on many of those trails. More importantly, we found a few new pathways that are more fun and interesting than the treks we’ve replaced. Back in the day, six years ago, I was an old stumblewheezer who couldn’t walk a mile before I collapsed on the trail like a wilted balsamroot. Today, I am proud to say that I can still collapse on the trail, though with six years of practice I am much more accomplished at finding the softest places to land. If five decades of backcountry skiing taught me anything, it’s how to land with the least chance of damaging anything important. While most everything urban—restaurant and pub visits, movie audiences, sports crowds—were shrinking, the trails gained users faster than a northern flicker can hammer that it owns your rain gutter. The great outdoors was the only place you could go to avoid the deadly ’rona, so Hardbody and I were not as alone as we were six years ago in tromping the wooded routes of Mount Spokane or the pocked plains of Fishtrap. The crowds made it no less pleasurable; in fact we were happy to make these newcomers feel welcome. I often demonstrated this by allowing them to trip merrily ahead, especially where stinging nettle or rain-drenched serviceberry and ocean spray hung over the trail, or rattlesnakes or wood ticks shared the path. Cruel? Mean-spirited? I think not. B. B. and I have had the better part of sixty or seventy years crashing brush, stepping on snakes, pulling ticks off our bodies, and licking melted chocolate off our pack pockets. It’s time to encourage new blood, though perhaps not literally. Since returning to our native Inland Northwest in 2008, B. B. and I