Fernan Natural Area Taking Shape

Despite the cold weather, city workers and a handful of volunteers are still chipping away at a new trail system in the Fernan Lake natural area. The natural area is a 54-acre city-owned park on the south side of Fernan Lake, just west of the Armstrong Park subdivision on Potlatch Road. A majority of the property, 47 acres, was donated to the city by the late Jim Elder, Pat Acuff and Doug Potter several years ago, and the city purchased an adjoining seven acres about three years ago in order to access the property. The new trailhead is still in rough form, but is located at a turnout east of the city water pump station on Potlatch Road/Jeff Selle, Coeur d’Alene Press. More here . (Jeff Selle Press photo: Mike Kempton, with the Coeur d’Alene City Parks Department, has been working wih staff and community volunteers to build out a trail system in the Fernan Lake Natural Area)