JULY 21st - 27th, 2025
Venue:
Best Western Plus Mountain Lodge, Ponderay, Idaho
Blocked from 21-28 of July 2025 until June 21.
Reservations are now open with a special rate of $175.00 US per room per night.
You can use the link below or call the hotel directly mentioning GOCI or Graham Owners Club, (208)-255-4500 (not the toll free Best Western Reservations Line).
Venue:
Best Western Plus Mountain Lodge, Ponderay, Idaho
Blocked from 21-28 of July 2025 until June 21.
Reservations are now open with a special rate of $175.00 US per room per night.
You can use the link below or call the hotel directly mentioning GOCI or Graham Owners Club, (208)-255-4500 (not the toll free Best Western Reservations Line).
How to get there:
- Driving: Highway US-95 North off I-90 or US-Route 2
- Flying: Spokane WA (closest major airport, 1.5 hr drive)
- Sandpoint County airport (20 min walk to hotel)
- Train: Amtrak Station in Sandpoint
- Hiking: PCT or CDT, then Northern Trail
Contact meet organizer with any questions:
Erwin Muller
+1-(512)-415-1815
+52-55-2955-9352
[email protected]
Erwin Muller
+1-(512)-415-1815
+52-55-2955-9352
[email protected]
Sandpoint Facts:
Meet activities (preliminary, to be confirmed):
22-26 of July 2025 (departure on 27th)
Local attractions:
Area attractions (distance from Sandpoint):
- 2011 Rand McNally “Most Beautiful Small Town”
- On the north shore of Idaho’s largest Lake “Pend Oreille”
- Surrounded by three mountain ranges, Selkirk, Cabinet & Bitterroot, in the center of the Idaho Panhandle
- Home to Schweitzer Mountain, Idaho’s largest ski resort
- On the International Selkirk Loop, the Wild Horse and Pend Oreille byways
- Once a timbertown, now a tourist and modern industry site
- Home to aerospace, biomedical, software development and food companies
- Four renowned breweries in a town of 8000 people
- US northernmost winery, Pend d’Oreille
- Huckleberry heaven (ice cream, pies, candies, jams)
Meet activities (preliminary, to be confirmed):
22-26 of July 2025 (departure on 27th)
- Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center
- Lavender Farm harvest
- Lake Coeur d’Alene boat cruise
- Sky House on the Summit at Schweitzer Mountain Resort
- Idaho Forest Group - Laclede Mill
- Riley Creek Blueberry Farm - pick your own
- Beer hall crawl
- Boutique shopping tour
- Sandpoint walking tour
- Asphalt Angels’ - Neon Nights Car Cruise and Street Dance
- Priest River “Timber-Days”
- car show (special area for GRAHAM cars)
- parade
- logging competitions
- Gala dinner
Local attractions:
- Festival at Sandpoint (early August, booking recommended)
- Monster Lake Trout fishing
- Acoustic Research Detachment - US Navy
- International Selkirk Loop and byways
- Missoula Floods tour
- Silverwood Theme Park
- Tribal Casinos
- Western Pleasure Guest Ranch (dude ranch)
- Rowing and Paddling Sprints regatta (early August)
- Long Bridge Swim - 1.5 miles (early August)
- Priest Lake
- 100+ hikes
- Z-scale model railroad
Area attractions (distance from Sandpoint):
- Wallace Blues Festival (early July, 1.5 hours)
- Trail of the Hiawatha - bicycle adventure (1.5 hours)
- Glacier National Park (4 hours)
- Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (8 hours)
- The Palouse (1.5 hours)
- Hells Canyon Jet Boats (Snake River - 4 hours)
- Whitewater rafting the river of no return (Salmon River - 6 hours)
- Craters of the Moon National Monument (8 hours)
- Sun Valley - first ski resort in US (8 hours)
- Spokane - Capital City of the Inland Northwest (1.5 hours)
- Canadian Border (1 hour)
- Boundary Dam (Tom Petty was the mayor of the town in “The Postman”, 2 hours)
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