Coeur d'Alene, located in northern Idaho, is a resort community with dramatic natural beauty, abundant opportunities for outdoor and water recreation, and an active, cohesive arts community.  All of this is available in the downtown area, which embraces the northern end of 25 mile-long Lake Coeur d'Alene. 

Arts and Culture in Coeur d’Alene
Art Walks in downtown Coeur d’Alene are on the second Friday of each month, April through December, from 5-8 in the evening.  These Art Walks coincide with the monthly opening receptions at The Art Spirit Gallery.

www.artsincda.org
The Coeur d’Alene Arts and Culture Alliance is a non-profit alliance that brings together the multitude of diverse arts groups to coordinate their efforts in promoting local arts and culture. Visit their calendar of arts events.

www.artonthegreen.org
The Citizens' Council for the Arts is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the arts in the surrounding community.  The CCA produces the highly successful Art on the Green art festival each August, and uses the proceeds to support art and art education in Coeur d'Alene and nearby communities.  Its volunteers provide Art Shop, a week-long art camp that serves 600 children each summer, writers' workshops for both adults and children, two gallery exhibitions at North Idaho College and Harding Family Center Play Space.

www.nic.edu/summertheatre
The Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre performances in Boswell Hall at North Idaho College are extremely popular.  This summer four productions are scheduled including: Footloose, Guys and Dolls, and Beauty and the Beast.

www.lakecityplayhouse.org
The Lake City Playhouse provides year-round community theater with productions in the 2005 season including Something’s Afoot, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Women and The Hobbit.  The Lake City Playhouse also provide Readers Theatre events and summer workshops. It is located at 1320 E. Garden Avenue.

www.operaplus.org
Opera Plus! is an organization devoted to bringing opera and the opera experience to our region. The group provides educational enrichment programs for students, opera appreciation classes for the general public, and scholarships for opera students. They provide free concerts, an annual opera cruise on the lake and this year's main offering, Rossini's "Il barbiere de Seviglia" (The Barber of Seville) in October.

www.cdasymphony.org
The Coeur d'Alene Symphony is composed of 60 to 70 musicians from the Coeur d'Alene area who provide concerts for the public in Boswell Hall, North Idaho College and chamber concerts in smaller venues.

www.spokanesymphony.org
The Spokane Symphony Orchestra is a 70-piece professional orchestra from Spokane, WA that performs two concerts a year for Coeur d'Alene audiences.  These concerts are held in Boswell Hall, North Idaho College.

The Coeur d’Alene City Park Concert Series is held most Sunday afternoons in June through August.  A different music type is showcased at each performance in the band shell at City Park.  Concerts are family-oriented and free to the public.

The Downtown Coeur d’Alene Concert Series is held at Sherman Square Park, 314 Sherman Avenue, in Downtown Coeur d'Alene.  Concerts are from 6-8:30pm on Tuesdays from June 13 through August 29.  These concerts are also family-oriented and free to the public.

For both concert series, in case of inclement weather, concerts are moved to the Coeur d'Alene Resort Plaza at Third St. and Sherman.

www.museumni.org
The Museum of North Idaho is located downtown at the edge of City Park.  Its exhibits tell the story of Coeur d'Alene and the surrounding communities, a history of steamboats, trains, logging and mining.  The museum boasts a spectacular collection of over 20,000 images, quite unusual for a small community, but the beauty of Coeur d'Alene has always been in the sights of photographers.

The Fort Sherman Museum is a branch museum of the Museum of North Idaho.  It is located on the North Idaho College campus.  It contains artifacts from when the site was Fort Sherman, named after General Tecumseh Sherman.  Admission to the Museum of North Idaho will also give you entry to the Fort Sherman Museum.

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The Coeur d'Alene Arts Commission, created in 1982, administers a burgeoning public art program.  In 1999 Coeur d'Alene was the first city in Idaho to enact a 1.3 Percent for Art Ordinance.  There are seven projects completed to date with others underway.

And if you're looking for exercise, there are two outstanding opportunities.

Tubbs Hill is 135 acres of urban wilderness area on a hill immediately adjacent to the Downtown.  It offers several nature trails of varying difficulty, all with spectacular views of the lake and the City.  This is a very special City treasure offering fresh pine-scented air, pocket beaches, wildflowers, uphill challenges and a relatively level perimeter trail.  Bicycles are not allowed on Tubbs Hill.

North Idaho Centennial Trail, a multi-use recreational trail extends 24 miles from Higgins Point on the Lake through the Downtown to the Idaho-Washington border. The trail then continues to Spokane, WA, mostly along the Spokane River.

www.coeurdalene.org
Contact the Coeur d’Alene Visitors Bureau for detailed information about Coeur d’Alene and the surrounding region.