NEWSLETTER | SUMMER 2021 | VOLUME 41 | NUMBER 3
War Canoe at Camp Easton on Gotham Bay, circa 1960. LCD-12-37
Youth Camps on Coeur d’Alene Waters: A Synopsis – Part Two by John V. Wood “Part One” of this synopsis appeared in the spring newsletter. It covered the youth camps on the west side of Lake Coeur d’Alene. Part Two will cover the remaining camps, starting with #9 on Lake Chatcolet, proceeding up the east side of the lake, around Wolf Lodge, and back to the town of Coeur d’Alene. Hence, we’ll continue down the Spokane River toward Post Falls to examine the last two camps. Even splitting this story in two has not left enough space to go into detail, but hopefully other authors will pick up the stories of individual camps later.
9. The 4-H Camps Heyburn State Park at Chatcolet, the oldest park in the Pacific Northwest, was created in 1908. Many camps of various types were held there over the years, but the only ones that seemingly fit in the realm of “youth camps” were 4-H. But they were what I’d classify as “nontraditional” given the organization didn’t own the property and the camps were often short and not held on a regular basis. The earliest reference to a 4-H camp held at Chatcolet was the summer of 1937, but that story