The boat launch with the deepest channel. The trail to the gorge. The farm stand that takes Venmo. The icon you've heard of and the one you haven't.
A full-service marina, restaurant, bar, and convenience store on the lake's south end in Harrison — gas on land and water, a ship store, and flexible dock rentals.
A rental fleet at The Coeur d'Alene Resort's marina downtown — sport boats, pontoon cruises, and paddleboard sessions.
Officially classified as a glacial reservoir, the lake was carved roughly 12,000 to 15,000 years ago when the Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet dammed the Clark Fork River, repeatedly filling and bursting through an ice dam in the same Missoula Floods that shaped neighboring Lake Pend Oreille. The lake is long attributed, in local tourism material, to a National Geographic ranking among the five most beautiful lakes in the world — a claim repeated everywhere but never traced to a specific issue or year.