Outhouses Coming To The Outdoors Four Stops Will Be Available From Mission Park To State Line

The weak-bladdered masses won’t have to hold it much longer.

Spokane County commissioners decided Tuesday to buy four state-of-the-art concrete outhouses for two parks and two popular Centennial Trail parking areas.

The prefabricated outhouses are billed as nearly vandalproof by their maker, CXT Inc. of the Spokane Valley.

They’d better be.

The outhouses they’re replacing have been burned, tipped, rolled, smeared and crushed so often that the county has mostly given up. As a result, there’s only one restroom in the 18 miles of Centennial Trail from Mission Park in east Spokane to the Idaho state line.

Now there will be four stops, with one-holers at Sullivan Road and Minnehaha Rocks, and double stalls at the Centennial Trail bridge near Plantes Ferry Park.

Another two-seater will go to Fish Lake Park, near Cheney.

That’s nearly $70,000 worth of toilets, including installation. And these aren’t flush models; the county will have to pump the holding tanks occasionally.

Rock climbers won’t miss the portable toilets at Minnehaha, said Jeff Hunt, a climber and Mountain Gear salesman. When they weren’t closed, they were usually too messy to stand in.

“Most people are pretty discrete and go back in the woods,” Hunt said.

, DataTimes