Shortest Republic Route is 140 miles via Hunters and Inchelium
The motorist who has visited all points of interest about his own town, and is looking about for new worlds to conquer, will be interested to know there is a veritable wonderland recently made accessible by good roads, within a day's easy motoring distance of Spokane. This new playground centers about Republic, in the northern part of Ferry county. Here waits a land of laughing streams, tangled mountains, shadowy lakes and cool, virgin forests.
Sweeping back ridge after ridge from Republic is a wild, chaotic jumble of forested mountains, forming a natural refuge for deer, bear and all wild life. Probably the fall hunting here is unexcelled elsewhere in the state.
Equally does the wealth of trout abounding in the sparkling streams and lakes endear it to the neart of the fisherman. Moreover there is no danger of the streams being fished out, for the state fish hatchery near Republic has a capacity of one and a half millions. Many hundreds of thousands of silver trout have been planted recently. Fish traps, for taking spawn, have been placed in many creeks.
Curlew Lake, eight miles from Republic, is a mountain gem of exquisite beauty. Almost from the water's edge rise wind-sculptured terraces tawnily golden, lifting the gentle undulations to lofty peaks shadowed in purple mantles.
CAMP SITE IS FREE
San Poil Lake, four miles from town, is smaller, but equally attractive. Both offer facilities for boating, bathing, with countless enticing perks for the outdoor feast. Fishing there is something often dreamed of and seldom found. Especially is this true of Swan Lake, 15 miles southeast of Republic, in the very heart of the solemn hills.
At Republic a free camp site, almost in the heart of the city, is so ideally situated that the camper has the comforting sense of perfect privacy and seclusion. A beautiful flower-strewn vale, invitingly shaded, defined by wooded slopes and the pure mountain torrent, Granite creek, a crescent of silver, await the traveler at the Horseshoe Bridge tourist camp. The women's community club will gladly give the visitor detailed information how best to reach numerous beauty spots.
The traveler has the choice of four good roads from Spokane: By way of Colville, making the loop into British Columbia, reentering the United States at Danville. This highway is open at all seasons. Another way is over the Hall Creek Road, recently completed. To gain it the Spokane tourist leaves the Sunset Highway at Davenport, journeying north to Hunters to Gifford, crossing the Columbia and connecting with Hall Creek Road at Inchelium.
REPUBLIC 140 MILES AWAY
After leaving Inchelium the road follows Hall Creek to the Divide. It is a scenic trip of unforgettable grandeur, and offers innumerable camping grounds among the pines. Republic is 140 miles from Spokane by this road. The Kettle Falls Road, by way of Colville and Meyers Falls, tempts the lover of broad horizons, since it attains a higher elevation than any other route.
Perhaps the San Poil road is most desirable from the point of sheer beauty. It may be reached by the Sunset Highway, crossing the Columbia north of Wilbur. From here the road parallels the San Poil river which flows through a mighty gorge whose walls ever threaten to meet but never quite fulfill their promise. Every moment a turn in the road brings a new view, each bend being the gateway to a fresh scene more superb, if possible, than the last.
From Keller to Republic is 50 miles of breath-taking scenic splendor. An ideal trip would be to come to Republic by way of the San Poil and loop back via Hall Creek.
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