{"id":9331,"date":"2022-09-08T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:20:21","slug":"potlatch-st-marie-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/09\/08\/potlatch-st-marie-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Potlatch &#038; St Marie, Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9440\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200007-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200007-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200007-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200007-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200007.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>What a great little campground in an extremely small town!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a city park and I cannot say enough about how nice it is.\u00a0 Every other small town should take notice of what this place is like.\u00a0 Wide paved smooth roads,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9447\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200014-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200014-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200014.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>l<\/a>evel sites, well-placed full hook- ups.\u00a0 Everything worked well.\u00a0\u00a0 No highway noise or train noise, although there were train tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9446\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200013-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200013-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200013-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200013.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>only 100 feet away and a crossing, but no trains the 4 days we were there.\u00a0 The tracks looked like they might be used every once in a while but not often from the rust on the tops of the tracks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9450\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200017-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200017-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200017-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200017.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>After being here a couple days, we drove up to St. Maries, about an hour&#8217;s drive into the St. Joe&#8217;s National Forest.\u00a0 Beautiful drive!\u00a0 The town wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9449\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200016-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200016-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200016-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200016.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>really what I was expecting.\u00a0 I was thinking it would be a tourist trap, but I never even saw the requisite trinket shops.\u00a0\u00a0 We stopped at a small city park dedicated to the man that surveyed the area for a road for the army and then built it a few years later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9451\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200018.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200018-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200018-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9453\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200020-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200020-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200020-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200020-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200020.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>By then we needed lunch and I found a place outside of town, and it turned out it was at a golf course.\u00a0\u00a0 The food was good and the view <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9454\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021-150x58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021-1024x394.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021-768x296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021-1536x591.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200021-2048x789.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>from the patio was spectacular!\u00a0 \u00a0Although the yellow jackets attracted by the food weren&#8217;t much fun.\u00a0 The warm tortilla holder lid was perfect for swatting them away.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy hates them, so she literally ate standing up and walking around to dodge them.\u00a0 I preferred to just swat them away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9437\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200004-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200004-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200004.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9436\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200003-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200003-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200003-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200003.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9435\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200002-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200002-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200002-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200002.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9434\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200001-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200001-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200001.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9439\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200006-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200006-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200006-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200006.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We saw deer running up on the fairway near us.\u00a0 Kind of wondering what type of penalty it <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9438\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200005-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200005-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200005-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Potlatch-StMarie202200005.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>was if you hit one with your ball?\u00a0 Was it considered out of bounds or an ecology sensitive area or what?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great little campground in an extremely small town!\u00a0 It&#8217;s a city park and I cannot say enough about how nice it is.\u00a0 Every other small town should take notice of what this place is like.\u00a0 Wide paved smooth roads,\u00a0 level sites, well-placed full hook- ups.\u00a0 Everything worked well.\u00a0\u00a0 No highway noise or train &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/09\/08\/potlatch-st-marie-idaho\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Potlatch &#038; St Marie, Idaho&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling-the-hiways-and-byways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}