Chamber welcomes Friends of POB Trail
(Courtesy photo) Greater Sandpoint Chamber officials, Chamber Ambassadors and members gather to welcome Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail to the organization. Pictured, from left, are Steve Sanchez, Susan Drumheller, Jan Griffitts, Ricci Witte, Judy Thompson, Jean Vorhies, Bob Witte, Erik Brubaker, Jan Rumore, Phil Hough, and Howard McDannald.
SANDPOINT — It was a picture-perfect day for celebrating one of Sandpoint’s most charming trails at the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce welcomed Friends of Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, May 28.
Friends of Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail began as a broad-based community partnership committed to establishing a public waterfront trail along the Lake Pend Oreille shoreline, linking the communities of Sandpoint, Ponderay and Kootenai. A registered 501c(3) nonprofit organization, the Bay Trail is a non-motorized trail along a mile and a half of shoreline in the communities of Sandpoint and Ponderay on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille. It is their hope to connect the trail to Ponderay neighborhoods by way of a railroad underpass, and to provide a link to Kootenai, so children and families in those communities can safely access the lake and the shoreline trail.
You can enjoy the trail now from the Sandpoint trailhead, next to the city’s water treatment plant at the end of Sandpoint Avenue, past the Edgewater Motel, north of City Beach.
The Friends of Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail’s biggest event of the year is coming up on June 9. The 7th annual Bay Trail Fun Run is a family friendly event. You can choose between 5 or 10K distances to run or walk along the shores of Lake Pend Oreille and Sand Creek.
The Bay Trail Fun Run benefits the Friends of the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail and efforts to preserve and enhance our region’s treasured waterfront trail. You can register online for the Bay Trail Fun Run until June 8 at noon. Packet pick-up and in person registration is on June 8 from 4-6 p.m. at Trinity at City Beach. To register, go online to pobtrail.org and click on events.