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Columbia Plateau Trail / Fish Lake Trail

Spokane County, WA

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This rail trail was originally built as the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway in 1908. The line was abandoned by the Burlington Northern Company in 1987. In 1991 the state purchased 130 miles of the right-of-way from milepost 235.0 near East Pasco to milepost 365.0 near South Cheney, and management as a park began in 1992.

The Columbia Plateau Trail terminates at the Fish Lake trailhead, but with an unpleasant two-mile trek up to Cheney-Spokane road, Spokane Parks' Fish Lake Trail on an abandoned section of UP right-of-way resumes north of Queen Lucas Lake at Scribner Road.

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Cheney Trailhead
47.479356, -117.561427
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Looking south
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Trail looking north
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Columbia Plateau Trail
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Columbia Plateau Trail
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Columbia Plateau Trail
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Columbia Plateau Trail (video)
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Columbia Plateau Trail (video)
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Columbia Plateau Trail (video)
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Columbia Plateau Trail (video)
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Fish Lake
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Fish Lake (video)
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Fish Lake
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Floods scoured the land
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Cataclysmic floods
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Fish Lake
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Fish Lake Trailhead
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Trail map
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Fish Lake Trailhead
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ROW continues north into the woods
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Cheney-Spokane Road
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Cheney-Spokane Road
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Cheney-Spokane Road
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Cheney-Spokane Road
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Cheney-Spokane Road
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Fish Lake Trail map at South Scribner Road
47.554219, -117.499672
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Fish Lake Trail going south from Scribner Road to Queen Lucas Lake
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Hut overlooking Queen Lucas Lake
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Queen Lucas Lake
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Queen Lucas Lake (video)
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Queen Lucas Lake
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Queen Lucas Lake
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Queen Lucas Lake
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Queen Lucas Lake
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Fish Lake Trail terminates
47.533011, -117.508811
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Path up to Cheney-Spokane Road
47.547285, -117.508393
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Path up to Cheney-Spokane Road
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Path up to Cheney-Spokane Road
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Path up to Cheney-Spokane Road
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Path up to Cheney-Spokane Road
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Path up to Cheney-Spokane Road
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Path up to Cheney-Spokane Road
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Fish Lake Trail north from Scribner Road
47.554219, -117.499672
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Fish Lake Trail (video)
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Fish Lake Trail (video)
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BNSF Spokane Subdivision
47.646647, -117.452299
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BNSF Spokane Subdivision over I-90
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BNSF Spokane Subdivision
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BNSF Spokane Subdivision over I-90

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