Your Outdoor Photos: November 2025

The Inland Northwest is full of flora, fauna, waters, scenery and active people out to savor it all. Please visit this gallery regularly to share photos of your wild experiences, learning moments, hot discoveries, favorite trips. Help us build a visual tour of what's so great about the outdoors in this region through all four seasons. This photo gallery will be an inspiration to some people. To others it will be a reminder of why we love to live here – and get outside as much as possible.

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Fri., Nov. 7, 2025

Photos in This Album

A mouthful Manito Park Dec 6, 2025

Photographer: Ron Large
A Downy woodpecker foraging for a snack at the Columbia Plateau Trail in Cheney. Taken 11/24/25

Photographer: Rich Zywiak
Bald Eagle Lake Coeur d'Alene Nov 19, 2025

Photographer: Ron Large
Foggy mirror images at the West Branch Little Spokane River/ Rustler’s Gulch Wildlife Area. We are so lucky the State owns and manages places like this for us all to enjoy. For wildlife it’s not just joy, but a necessity!

Photographer: Silke Kluth
Waterway with Disappearing Trees (inspired by the Avenue of Disappearing Mountains in New Zealand). Rustler’s Gulch and the West Branch of Little Spokane River.

Photographer: Silke Kluth
A reserved Wild Turkey quietly keeping an eye on what is below, November 20th, Pend Oreille River Valley

Photographer: Nia Patton
Bald Eagle boldly keeping a close eye below, Pend Oreille River Valley, November 20th

Photographer: Nia Patton
Big buck deer in the fall colors near Medical Lake mid November

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Bald eagle taking flight. Higgens Point. 11/15/25

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
The great bull fight (no red cape required). Taken 11/4/25 in Riverside State Park.

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
A bald eagle comes in for a landing with a fish. Higgens Point, Nov.11, 2025.

Photographer: Cortney Litwin
Otter eating a fish in Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Photographer: Trevor Allen
Otter in Middle Pine Lake at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Photographer: Trevor Allen
Canada Geese on the look out on a rainy day on the Pend Oreille River, 11-5-25

Photographer: Nia Patton
At the end of the Fish Lake Trail sits Queen Lucas Lake and in this lake are a lot of Canadian Geese, seen the 1st week of November

Photographer: melaine Williams
A bull Elk and his haram take a long last look before vanishing into the timber. Taken 11 6 2025 Turnbull wildlife refuge

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
A bull elk drives his heard of cow elk out of a clearing and into the timber on the Turnbull wildlife refuge on a rainy early morning. Taken 11 6 2025.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
The sun highlighting grasses at Missile Site.

Photographer: Silke Kluth
November buddies at Bear Lake County Park: mist and frost.

Photographer: Silke Kluth