Sandpoint has over 20 parks, public gathering spaces, or designated community locations. Here is a roundup of major parks that offer just about something for every recreational interest.
City Beach. Sandpoint’s premier park on Lake Pend Oreille is 22 acres comprising the tip of the Sand Creek peninsula. Its sandy beaches provide swimming in protected waters, with adjacent tennis and volleyball courts, playground, basketball court, covered pavilion available for event rental, boat launch and two marinas with tie-ups for itinerant boaters. There’s also an RV park. 102 Bridge Street.
Travers Park at 2102 Pine Street is the keynote park for what’s actually a complex of sporting park. Travers itself includes multiple sports fields for baseball, softball and soccer, a bike and pedestrian path, playground and tennis courts. Other features, and the immediately adjacent parks, include:
- James E. Russell Sport Center. New in 2024, the sport center provides indoors tennis and pickleball courts.
- Centennial Park. Just north of Travers Park, with soccer fields and picnic shelter.
- Great Northern Park. The next step north of Centennial, with soccer fields and restrooms.
- Concrete Lake Skate Park. New construction doubled the size of this popular skate park – which now abounds with features to challenge skaters and by square foot, is the town’s most-used parks.
War Memorial Field. Home for Sandpoint High School’s football, soccer, baseball and softball teams, this 4.5 acre multiuse sports was rebuilt in 2017 with a new 1,500-capacity grandstand and artificial that provides play from March through October. In summer, the field is home to the Festival at Sandpoint concert series. 801 Ontario Street.
Lakeview Park. Along Lake Pend Oreille adjacent to Memorial Field, this park features the Native Plant Arboretum as well as the Bonner County Historical Museum on site. There are tennis and pickleball courts, a playground, seasonal boat launch, and paths. 901 Ontario Street.
Farmin Park and the Town Square. Located at Third and Main, Farmin has a bandstand and in warm months hosts the Sandpoint Farmers Market on Saturdays and Wednesdays; right across the street is the Town Square with chess tables, benches and water fountains for kids in summer.
Hickory Street Park. This quiet park at 812 Hickory Street has basketball courts, a playground, small skatepark, picnic shelter and spacious lawns for frisbee and other games.
Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail and Sand Creek Trail. These trails frame both sides of the Sand Creek Peninsula. The multi-use Sand Creek Trail on the west side is paved and extends north for a mile-plus along the creek to the Popsicle Bridge from its starting point at 102 Bridge Street, just before the entrance to City Beach. On the east side, starting a quarter mile north of City Beach, the Bay Trail follows the lakeshore two miles northward with an unpaved path. Sandpoint Avenue trailhead.
Outdoor Shooting Range. Located outside city limits, approximately 4.5 miles west on Baldy Road, the range accommodates multiple shooters with rangemaster during its set hours of operation. 113 Turtle Rock Road.
See additional parks, get more information and find forms to reserve facilities at the City of Sandpoint Parks and Recreation Department.
