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Little Spokane River shuttle service starts Saturday

Marissa Puckett, center, and her daughter, Kaelynn, 2, prepare to take a canoe ride Thursday on the Little Spokane River with Justin Enlow, left, after putting in near St. George’s School. This year’s minimal winter snowpack will affect river flows. (Jesse Tinsley)
Marissa Puckett, center, and her daughter, Kaelynn, 2, prepare to take a canoe ride Thursday on the Little Spokane River with Justin Enlow, left, after putting in near St. George’s School. This year’s minimal winter snowpack will affect river flows. (Jesse Tinsley)

WATERSPORTS – The Little Spokane River shuttle service for paddlers will resume this summer with an expanded season that starts on Saturday July 4 and runs Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., through Sept. 5.

The shuttle is operated by Spokane Parks and Recreation Department to reunite river paddlers with their vehicles.

The van will run between the Nine Mile take-out and the St. George’s put-in. Cost: $8 per person. Vehicles parked at either of the access points must have a Discover Pass.

Note: No inner tubes, rafts, dogs or alcohol allowed on Little Spokane River.  Life jackets (PDFs) required for all. Under 18 parent must accompany child.

Register for shuttles at spokaneparks.org.

Registration on-site with CHECKS or CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS ONLY, NO CASH.

Info: 363-5418.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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