Dec. 22, 2021 Contact: Erik Brubaker, City of Ponderay, (208) 946-1761 Written by Susan Drumheller Ponderay Announces Purchase of Lakefront at End of Bay Trail PONDERAY – The City of Ponderay Wednesday announced plans to use local option tax income to purchase...

Some trails meander around and fail to take the most direct route to one’s destination. Occasionally you may even wander down a side path until you realize that you have been led astray. Building a trail can sometimes be like that too. But then you reach a major...

Mixed news from a recent meeting with City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton regarding the parking lot closure: It could be a few months before the parking lot at the Sandpoint trailhead is open during the weekdays again. The reason given for the lot closure was the...

by Susan Drumheller The dog days of summer have arrived and with them come the perpetual joys and challenges of socializing and training our beloved pets so they can coexist easily with others on the trails and in other public spaces. The Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail is a...

Susan Drumheller President, Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail PONDERAY – As the seasons change along the Bay Trail, bringing snow, mud, flowers and golden leaves, stiff breezes and gentle sunshine, we also have our corresponding seasons for planning Bay Trail...

We are very excited to be working with the city of Ponderay to clean up the black rock site along the Bay Trail. Read the full article in the Bonner County Daily Bee here:...

For the last two years, the Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail and the City of Ponderay have been preparing to apply for a federal TIGER grant to help fund a much-needed underpass for the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail. Without an underpass under the railroad tracks,...