Fantastic video full of valuable information. Very enlightening about Spokane! Looks like a great place to visit. Thank you Run The Atlas ! 🤩

I’ve traveled the whole country, and I hated Spokane while growing up, but after seeing other places, I love Spokane. We have too many bums, but Spokane is still great.

The Bloomsday Run is the kickoff for the Lilac Festival which brings Riverfront Park and Downtown full of activities with focus on our beloved lilcs..until the following weekend when The Armed Forces Torchlight Parade presents the Best of the Great Northwest high school marching bands and floats contributed by the busy people in towns from Western Montana, Northern Idaho, Washington and Oregon. It will make you feel like a kid again when you suddenly realize you've been grinning since the start. And a great big, bright red, very shiny firetruck at the very end. It feels like the carnival had left town. Lots of fun, pretty girls in pretty dresses. I do love that parade. Followed by a long line to get on our prized Loof Carousel and glide around in circles surrounded by lights, music and all the other beautiful animals. But that's another story.

I love Spokane!🤘

I wanted to mention that Spokane hosts not only Bloomsday, we also host Hoopfest one of the biggest 3 on 3 basketball tournaments in the US. We also have over 70 lakes within 30 miles of the city. To say we are a big basketball town with Gonzaga is an understatement! :) (also it is pronounced Gone- Zah- Ga) Go Zags! It was interesting to watch a video about Spokane as a native. Thank you we do have a beautiful city here.

Really enjoyed this, thanks so much!

Nice tribute to my city! Thanks so much.

Every year is different. Sometimes it doesn't snow until December and stops in January other years it starts in October and lasts through March. The more snow and rain the better, because most summers are dry hot and Smokey. But you never know what's going to happen 😁

I grew up in Spokane and when I retired I moved to Arizona to escape the long cold winters. I still visit friends in Spokane when I can.

Great informative video.. thank you.

Next time you visit, skip Lake CDA and head to Lake Pend Oreille. Head up to Sandpoint for some shopping, lunch and sights. Then save room in your stomach and head back down the lake to Bayview and have a delicious, sunset dinner at The Lake House. Enjoy no cell service and an incredible view you won't forget. You'll even get a live show on the dock if you time it right.

Live Spokane - Love Spokane. This July 15th ,2023 our Spokane Transit (STA) began running its new EV bus routes called "City Line". So convienient and runs late into the 11:00pm. Sooo many cool places to shop, eat and enjoy. Also if you like to gamble a bit. Northern Quest Casino(next to airport), Spokane Tribe Casino and Coeur d'Alene Casino (idaho). Gotta run...ya know the Centenial Trail!

Thank you so much, it was amazing video

Great video, you really nailed it! I've lived in Spokane almost 30 years. So, if you don't mind I would like to clarify a couple of items: The cat walks are called "Skywalks," Gonzaga is pronounced gone-ZAY-guh, If you really want to see the falls come in the spring. (The flow usually peaks around Memorial Day) Spokane has a thriving foodie scene, too! There are 5 ski resorts within a couple of hours. One is 45 minutes from Downtown, another even rivals Vail! Wild life? In addition to wild turkeys I have seen deer, racoons, moose, a cougar even a black bear pass through my yard and I live less than 2 miles from downtown! I have lived in Central and South America as well as Europe and stumbled into this place around 1998 and see no reason to leave!

Wow.. I lived in Spokane for 12 years starting in the late '80s, and it's hardly changed from what I see here. I''ve always considered it my hometown, even though I only moved there after graduating in western WA. It's an amazing city. Soooo many parks! And perfect 4 seasons. I've wanted to move back for years. The "pacific NW weather" comment isn't very true though. Yeah it rains, but nothing even close to western WA weather! The climate is pretty "average" in Spokane. It gives you everything.

Im 14 and i live in Spokane im always downtown and up north and its not that bad fr ive been here at night and during the day its honestly a good place just with a lot of homeless people

Gorgeous city

Thanks for all your content!

Beautiful place

There's never been a single day in the history of Spokane weather which goes back to 1881 where there's ever been "feet" of snow in the month of September. The record snowfall for Spokane is a couple of inches on some of the last days of the month that's it-not measured in feet.

You do an amazing job with your filming! Do you have recommendation for car rental company at Spokane airport? Planning my trip from your film!

Spokane had a fire that burnt 32 city blocks the old Spokane is right underneath the city

[00:29] 🚗 Spokane, Washington, is located about a four-hour drive from Seattle and is closer to Idaho and Montana. [01:08] 🏞 Spokane's downtown, featuring a stunning park along the Spokane River, showcases the second largest urban waterfall in the US. [02:32] 🌲 Geographically, Spokane surprises with hills, plains, and some coniferous forests, offering diverse outdoor recreation centered around the river. [03:02] ❄ Spokane experiences all four seasons, including significant snowfall from September to May, with clean air due to its distance from large cities. [03:49] 🎉 Spokane hosts events like the Bloomsday run and the Lilac Festival, attracting visitors, while its conference center is popular for hosting conferences against a beautiful riverfront backdrop. [04:55] 🌱 The city's small size fosters a down-to-earth, rural vibe, with accessible outdoor spaces and surprising wine offerings, such as Arbor Crest winery. [06:04] 📹 Explore Spokane through vlogs and footage, experiencing its charm and connection to surrounding areas, making it a hidden gem in the Pacific Northwest.

Sadly no beach and not much summer. Came from CA to spokane and been here for 7 years but thinking of moving closet to warmer climate.

Dunno about post covid but precovid there was a huge night life and tons of late night bars and scenes but if you're not from there you'd never realize and know where to go. You can easily spend all night bar hopping with music and dancing all over.

We also have hoopfest the largest 3 on 3 basketball tournament

The Flour Mill is a good place for Food and Jewelry, and others things 😋 Also Clinkadaggers sits over the Edge of River we go to eat at ❤

VERY informative!!! Thanks so much!!!

short and straight to the point video. Thanks😃

My daughter in law just had her suv window broken and items stolen from her vehicle Friday night, while parked down town. Do not keep anything visible!!!!!

Fun Fact: On May 4, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) presided over the opening of Expo '74, Spokane's World's Fair, addressing a crowd of 85,000 from the floating dock shown at 4:27.

Fun golf courses in Spokane. The public courses are cheap and beautiful.

I live outside of town. Never go there anymore. It is infested with homeless people drugs theft and teenage punks. It is unfortunate they have let it digress to that level

I love spokane how everyone is camping on the streets 😂😂

Just went to spokane for a couple weeks. Homeless everywhere by Gonzaga. My 2 cents: Depressing, dirty city, with awesome people.

I like Spokane, there are some beautiful parks and some great people there, but don't forget that there are some truly awful and horrifying places in Spokane. One of the neighborhoods close to the courthouse is the lowest income neighborhood in the western United States. There is an enormous amount of poverty and criminality and a lot of people come to the town out of multi-generational poverty in the surrounding rural areas, so it is a pretty rough place if you are in the wrong part of Spokane valley or close to the court house or up by the northern part of the town.

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Spokane is cool, been there many times …

I will that the air quality does get bad, but only during the late summer and early fall because of forest fires. Also there is another University in Spokane called Whitworth University. I am a student there and it the number 1 best education program in the nation.

You should have gone to the Cedar Floating Restaurant in Coeur d’Alene.

She just said it’s the most beautiful downtown. Oh my God how many homeless people did you have to step over to take that picture?

I live in the Spokane Valley (close to Arbor Crest) Only go Downtown to visit the park. Rest of Downtown is full of weirdos and bums. Need to reopen Medical Lake’s mental hospitals.

High threft...on property..and stores...Downtown is really bad....homeless people is really bad here...

Damn, you walk fast if you can walk all of Downtown in 15 minutes.

I enjoyed the video you put together. It almost made me miss the city but honestly it isn't that beautiful if you have to overlook the amount of homeless that are there. It is turned into a skid row. It has too many drugs and too much crime for me. It's beautiful but it's been ruined

snow goes from late october through april.iknow ilive here

It’s the lack of hand washing for me

That’s were I am

Stunning downtown?? 🤔 I must’ve gone to a different Spokane.

very interesting ! looks like a great city to visit!

Earliest snow is Halloween. Largest TIMED race in the world. Everyone get a time and it is printed in the news paper. You forgot the 3 on 3 basketball tourny in June. By the way Gonzaga is 3 syllables GONE-ZAG-a as in about, a short a.

Whats the hospital there? Is there good health care? Also what about the cost of living? Can i find a one bedroom apartment for $1000 or less?

I am in Spokane. It is Gonzaaaga not Gonzoooga.

I live in Spokane

Easy town to fall in love with!

About your clean air comment. It has the highest population density for people of Asthma in the world. There is a reason why. They're all about 45-55.

That’s not what turkeys sound like.

May 16th is my birthday and me and my family might be moving to Spokane

Spokane is 6 hours from Seattle. 30 minutes from Idaho.

I'm really regretting moving to Spokane. Fine place to visit but not the place to live. Horrible streets and sidewalks. So many stores have closed. Rent is to high for these little shacks. Garbage everywhere on streets and in shopping center parking lots. Homelessness is insane along with open drinking. Cars are constantly being broken into and many house fires are done by bad actors.

But you can't bring any of your fun guns, and stay out of downtown, Westside, Hillyard at night.

You should do one on Moscow, Idaho or Coeur d' Alene

Their robbing me

Dougie fresh Apollo

We live in Montana and were going to visit Spokane in June, but after reading all these comments about gangs, drugs, violence, I’m super nervous. Are there specific areas to avoid?

I've lived In spokane a couple years now and I'll tell you that downtown is horrible after 8pm once the city lights come on the tweaker come out there's shootings everyday police chases every day and has one of the highest criminal rates in Washington per population wise there's so many reckless drivers and to many crashes a day to count, the down town area specifically has homeless people on every street corner and drugdealers on every other corner, I came from a very high gang violent town and I've been pushed and pressed by fake wannabe gangbangers frequently in spokane multiple people pulling guns out on me one time even getting mugged at northern quest there's a bridge downtown nicknamed suicide bridge because the amount of people that jump and hang themselves from it yearly overall tho the park downtown is a great visit and if you visit spokane make sure it's during the day

this city is absolutly beautiful. i pronounce the name as spo cane instead of spo can. idk i just prefer it.

Spokane USED to be a great place to live. I was born here 50 years ago, and it was great until…. People started making/posting videos about how great it is. For God’s sake, STOP IT!!!

"clean air" aged really well

Spokane, I miss you

Great parks, stay on the South Hill and Central downtown, because the rest is Spo-Compton. Unfortunately Spokane has a crime rate commensurate with a city 5 to 10 times its size. Glad I escaped to the Big Sky.

Do not stop here unless you HAVE to. Not safe at all you’ve been warned

Pig out in the park I'll be there this year 🙂 2024

Is anybody knows about Sarah Hettal here ??

Spokane has come a LONG way during my lifetime here. Seattle tends to get most of the money, so yes, we’ve been working on a (one🤣) N/S freeway for 30 yrs and it will prob take another 30 to finish, until recently you could disappear into the streets potholes, and we now have enough restaurants around that people actually want to go to, so you may need to make reservations. My highschool years - downtown had a Nordstroms and a NEWBERRYS. Oh, maybe the Cresent/BonMarche. College, nightlife consisted of maybe two bars, 3 if you included N Side or Valley. Most people left for college and didn’t come back. It was a great place to raise kids, or come to retire. It’s actually not nearly as rainy/snowy as it gets credit for, it’s just that our winters seem to last all year. And it is Beautiful in the PNW. Our 4 seasons are phenomenal - you get your city life (small), but in any direction within 20 minutes you’re in natures play ground. Seattles 3 hours away, but with technology and all the renovations Spokane has had, there’s really not the reasons needed for when we used to take off (shopping, cooler people, etc.) Of course there’s crime and homeless, where isn’t there in a metropolitan area? I’m a photographer, I work indoors and out, and I’ve never once had a problem with any homeless, street kids, drunk college kids, or what have you. Show people kindness, respect, and don’t dilly dally in areas that clearly aren’t a place you need to be in (we all know when we’ve turned a wrong corner) and you’ll probably be fine. In fact, I’ve actually been protected by homeless in areas they consider sketch, no one has ever tried to steal my gear or stab me. Now, my daughter has had people try to open her car doors, while waiting at lights downtown. But she thinks they may have been domestic violence type situations. Otherwise, I couldn’t be more proud of how Spokane has slowly come along. It’s what you make of it - any city can suck if you’re a whiner. There’s tons of stuff to do and see, lots of great history mixed in with the new and if you don’t like it, go to Seattle 🥰😘

I live in Spokane now what gang are you talking about? I work right across from the “biggest drug homeless population in the city. It’s no worse than Portland or Seattle!

Wonderful video, not a friendly town.

I live here. It's not pronounced Gonzawguh. We're the 2nd largest city in WA after Seattle and are thankfully nothing at all like them. Expo is still present in downtown. It is however getting more dangerous by the day. I won't even do my photography downtown anymore.

Spokane does not have clean air or water.

say "the downtown" one mo'gen.

bro spokane is boooorrrringggg asf there's nothing to do here lmao unless you're like old asf and have fun just staring at things. Also multiple ppl commit sewer slide in our river

You forgot to mention the big homeless camps, the gang presence & violence that Spokane is well known for.

I lived in Spokane for over 45 years. You have about 80 to 90 % percent of your facts correct but you are very wrong on a few things. It never snows Spokane in September. Earliest snow is around Halloween. I hate Montana and never visit Montana. Most years it stops snowing around January 31 . I didn’t hear you talk about Fairchild Air Force base and the casino in airway heights. None of my friends cared about wine in Spokane. Unfortunately property crime and low lives are a big issue in Spokane. Cars are often having their windows busted out in the spring time. If you don’t believe me than fact check me. In the summer time unfortunately we deal with one week to one month of wild fire smoke. I disagree with you about Spokane having clean air. I moved to Dallas three years ago in spring of 2020 . I actually can breathe without choking on smoke especially in the winter months. Most years it starts snowing after December 10 th too January 31 but we don’t get spring or longer days until march. February is cold and not snowing. It is once every 10 years we get weird snow in the spring time and longer winter. You must have visited Spokane in 2008 or in a really bad year for winter.

Don’t come to Spokane it looks nothing like this. There’s needles and tinfoil all over

What ? Nothing about the homeless zombie mobs. Fact check please

Winery Arbor Crest is beautiful, but the wine is Terrible. Guess you know nothing about wine.

Clean air ????? The best downtown in the country ??? Either you’re a liar or a gaslighter ! This shows you that visiting somewhere is way different than living there!

AKA Spo-Compton 🤘

Tongues

It's not called cat walks, they are known as sky walks.

I'll stick to Western Washington. Spokane seems boring af.

Downtown Spokane is so bad if you love your children do not take them anywhere near Washington let alone Spokane. But if you do go as soon as you drive downtown you’ll be greeted with several drug addicts welcoming you to their city. It’s littered with homeless, addicts and completely run down and depressing.

Violence is very bad here..and racist..

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Tweaker hub for over thirty years

TIPS: Don't eat the fast-food downtown. Karens make most of it! Lots of hair, etc. in the food :S Plus, Smokane is the best Cannabis shop in town!

The complete lack of diversity and culture, plus the far right influence from Idaho makes Spokane a 👎

you might check your facts on spokane air , spokane has some of the worst air quality in the country ! Spokane also has the fourth highest auto theft in the country and a crime rate 82 % higher than the national rate and the spokane river has a sewer plant that dumps into the spokane river ,You got one thing right the best part of spokane is northern idaho ,i have lived in spokane my whole life and those are the facts !