Farragut
Farragut State Park occupies land that once trained over 293,000 men during this global conflict.
What is World War II?
Before tourism, Sandpoint’s economy was dominated by this industry, which supplied the nation’s railroads.
What is timber/lumber?
This river flows out of Lake Coeur d’Alene before heading west into Washington.
What is the Spokane River?
The Selkirk Mountains are one of the last U.S. habitats for this endangered bear.
What is the grizzly bear?
This transcontinental railroad reached Sandpoint in 1882, spurring settlement.
What is the Northern Pacific Railroad?
At its wartime peak, Farragut was Idaho’s ____ largest city by population.
What is second?
Sandpoint’s city beach was expanded during the 1950s with fill dirt from this dam project downstream.
What is Albeni Falls Dam?
This river in the mountains west of Montana along I90 is heavily affected by historic silver mining.
What is the Coeur d’Alene River?
Bald eagles gather at Wolf Lodge Bay each winter to feed on these spawning fish.
What are kokanee salmon?
Amtrak’s Empire Builder makes its only Idaho stop at this historic depot.
What is the Sandpoint Depot?
The naval station here was named after David Farragut, the first U.S. officer to hold this naval rank.
What is Admiral of the Navy?
This Sandpoint brewery, founded in 1987, became Idaho’s largest and distributes across the Northwest.
What is Laughing Dog Brewery?
This river valley provided the route for the Northern Pacific Railroad into Sandpoint.
What is the Clark Fork River Valley?
DAILY DOUBLE
These small, iridescent blue birds swoop over Lake Pend Oreille marshes in summer, often nesting in birdhouses and tree cavities.
Sandpoint is the only U.S. location where these Class I railroads all converge. How many are there?
What is 3? The BNSF, Union Pacific, and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)
In 1967, more than 12,000 people from 105 countries gathered here for this international event.
What is the World Scout Jamboree?
Before it was a cultural hub, Sandpoint was a rough logging town where this mill company dominated.
What is Humbird Lumber?
This geologic event 15,000 years ago repeatedly flooded the Columbia Basin, carving channels around Lake Pend Oreille.
What were the Missoula Floods?
This prized sport fish in Lake Pend Oreille can weigh 20+ pounds.
What is a Kamloops rainbow trout?
This French-Canadian explorer’s maps of the Pend Oreille River basin helped guide the railroads of the late 19th century.
Who was David Thompson?
This branch of the navy research was detached to use Lake Pend Oreille for submarine acoustic testing.
What is the Navy’s Acoustic Research Detachment?
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Housekeeping spent her early years in Sandpoint.
Who is Marilynne Robinson?
This major international river, crossing North Idaho, flows north into British Columbia before re-entering Washington and flowing to the ocean.
What is the Columbia River?
North Idaho wetlands host this bird, Idaho’s state bird, with a distinctive yellow breast.
What is the Western Meadowlark?
The Montana Rail Link operated in the region until it was reacquired by this Class I railroad in 2024.
What is BNSF Railway?