Trail Counter Update
Last year we posted the results of the first five months of counting trail visitors. The numbers surprised us all. Now, we can offer you a look at a full year of use. Click on the image for a larger view.
Want to read more? Check out this article in the CdA Press, 364,000 and Counting, about our large number of visitors!
July 5th Cleanup
Help the hill recover from the Fourth of July celebration! Meet us at the 3rd Street entrance, 8:30am - noon. Bags, lemonade, and water will be provided, please bring your own gloves.
Earth Day Celebration
Join us in celebration of Earth Day on Saturday, April 22, 2023, 10 AM to 2 PM at the Coeur d’Alene Library. Friends of Tubbs Hill will have an outside table with information, brochures, and items to purchase.
Town Hall Meeting
April 20, 7pm in the Coeur d’Alene Public Library Community Room. We will share a 30 minute video tour of the hill, focusing on its natural and cultural history. It is narrated by noted naturalist and author Jack Nisbet, retired forester and foundation board member Mark Weadick, and City Forester Nick Goodwin. It highlights many informative but little-known facts about Tubbs Hill, and numerous scenic views. The event also includes a short presentation about the mission and work of the Tubbs Hill Foundation as it works with the city to care for the hill. There will be an opportunity to ask questions or raise concerns about Tubbs Hill, and various handouts will be available. All are invited and encouraged to attend to learn more about Tubbs Hill- our natural treasure.
Tubbs Hill Gets a Trail Counter
We’d like to thank the City of Coeur d’Alene Parks Department for purchasing and installing a trail counter on the hill this year. It’s helping us learn about when and how much the hill is used. In the first six months, it counted over 155,000 people! That’s significantly more than had been previously estimated. This is a single counter, so people who leave the hill at a different point are counted once and people who go out and back are counted twice. We’re projecting that this means the hill sees over 200,000 visitors every year. In the future we will add another counter, giving us a more clear picture. Here are graphs showing some of the data we have so far:
Scott Wilde Eagle Scout Project
Eagle Scout candidate Scott Wilde has enjoyed Tubbs Hill with his family since early childhood. When it came time to develop an Eagle Scout project, he naturally thought of Tubbs. Reaching out to the Foundation to see what our needs may be, he worked with us and the City to design and build maps to help visitors find their way on the hill. Scott learned some new skills and recruited a huge group of volunteers to install the signs in fall of 2022. Read about his project here.
Fall Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Saturday, October 8, 2022, 9:00 AM to Noon
Please meet at the East Tubbs Hill entrance. Bags and bag collection will be provided in East Side Park by the Parks Department. Be sure to bring your own gloves. Please join us!
Summer Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Tuesday, July 5, 2022, 9:00 AM to Noon
We will be hosting a post 4th of July clean up to help the hill recover from the celebrations. We’ll meet at the 3rd Street entrance. Bags, lemonade, and water will be provided, bring your own gloves. Please join us!
National Trails Day Work Day
Saturday, June 4, 2022, 8:30 AM
Once again the Tubbs Hill Foundation is offering up opportunities to participate in National Trails Day by doing trail maintenance on Tubbs Hill. We have projects that range from easy to more physical. From trimming brush encroaching into trails to the heavier work of hauling gravel and/or digging up rocks to repair trails, you can find something to match your desire! We will meet at East Tubbs Hill Park. Depending on the number of folks who sign up to help and the projects they might be able to do, we may have some groups meet at a different location. If you’d like to help, please email us at friendsoftubbshill@tubbshill.org.
Fall Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Sunday, October 3, 2021, 9:00am to Noon
Please meet at the East Tubbs Hill entrance. Bags and bag collection will be provided in East Side Park by the Parks Department. Be sure to bring your own gloves. Please join us!
Summer Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Monday, July 5, 2021, 9:00 AM to Noon
We will be hosting a post 4th of July clean up to help the hill recover from the celebrations. We’ll meet at the 3rd Street entrance. Bags, lemonade, and water will be provided, bring your own gloves. Please join us!
Tubbs Hill Alternative Route Hike
Sunday, June 5, 2021, 8:30 AM
June 5th is National Trails Day! Interested in learning alternate hiking routes on Tubbs Hill? David Taylor will be leading a walk on Tubbs Hill in conjunction with Urban Trails book talk on June 4th at Well Read Moose. Walk will meet and start at north end of East Tubbs Hill Park parking lot, walk will be on alternative trails to main loop trail and will go to the summit of Tubbs Hill. Walk will be approximately 2 miles long.
Summer Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Sunday, July 5, 2020, 8:00 AM 11:00 AM
We will be hosting a post 4th of July clean up to help the hill recover from the celebrations. We’ll meet at the 3rd Street entrance, bags will be provided, BYO gloves. Please join us!
CANCELLED - Spring Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Saturday, April 25, 2020, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
*This event has been cancelled due to the need to practice social distancing to protect against COVID-19. We hope to see you in July for our next clean-up effort.
Happy Earth Day!
Celebrate by joining us for our annual spring clean-up. We will meet at 9am at the 3rd Street trailhead, by the Rotary Harbor House at McEuen Park in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Coffee and trash bags are provided, please bring your own gloves. Tubbs Hill Foundation Board Members will be on hand to offer suggestions on areas that need attention. This is an informal event, please come when you can, for as long as you can.
Thank you for helping us keep Tubbs Hill green and clean!
Farewell Open House for Rod Edinger
Thursday, November 14, 2019, 4:00 PM 5:00 PM
Please join your Friends of Tubbs Hill at the Hagadone Event Center as we help him celebrate his 50 years of public service.
It’s hard to find words that don’t sound trite to express our appreciation for Ron Edinger’s continuing support of Tubbs Hill. His name has been a fixture since the Tubbs Hill Foundation’s founding. As an advocate for the entire CDA Parks system, an outdoor sports enthusiast and a generally good guy, he has continued to grow in our esteem throughout the years. As former Mayor and continuing Council Representative he has consistently advocated in support of the THF’s mission to keep Tubbs as natural as possible while encouraging appropriate uses by his efforts such as expanding access with Eastside Park Trail improvements, staunching misguided attempts to “improve” Tubbs with “water features,” and nixing sledding runs as part of the McEuen redevelopment. As our journey to be responsible advocates of a natural setting in our urban environment for future generations continues, Ron’s record of service will provide a guide directing our steps.
Ron is a passionate, positive supporter of Tubbs Hill. Ron's support of the hill was identified by Scott Reed in his book "THE TREASURE CALLED TUBBS HILL". In the mid 1970's, Scott notes in his book, the final acquisition of Tubbs Hill was publicly discussed and argued. Mayor Edinger's position was key in that process.
"Positions in support (of public acquisition) signed by thousands, plus all direct contacts, were of more help. Mayor Edinger, who subsequently has become the city council person most proactive for public parks and recreation, was finally convinced. (The story we all loved to believe was that Ron was finally persuaded to overcome his monetary cautions by strong words of support for acquiring the rest of Tubbs Hill from his wife, Nancy." (pg 35)
Later in his book Scott notes that on July 23,1975 "there was a nice dedication ceremony at the entry way of to the hill with the mayor and council members plus others, all feeling good, but this time there was another omission. There should have been another concrete monument saying 'Land Acquired for the Benefit of the People Forever' and naming Mayor Ron Edinger, Red Halpern, Trust for Public Lands and the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. There is still time." (pg 37)
Spring Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Sunday, April 22, 2018, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
Happy Earth Day! Celebrate by joining us for our annual spring clean-up. We will meet at 9am at the 3rd Street entrance, by the Harbor House at McEuen park. Coffee and trash bags are provided, please bring your own gloves. This is an informal event, please come when you can, for as long as you can. Thank you for helping us keep Tubbs Hill green and clean!
Tubbs Hill Foundation Annual Workshop
Thursday, December 8, 2016, 5:00 PM 8:00 PM
*Cancelled* Fall Cleanup on Tubbs Hill
Saturday, October 8, 2016, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
*This event has been cancelled due to the inclement weather that is expected.*
Join us for our annual fall clean-up! We will meet at 9am at the 3rd Street entrance, by the Harbor House at McEuen park. Coffee and trash bags are provided, bring your own gloves. Thank you for helping us keep Tubbs Hill green and clean!
Art on the Green
Fri, Aug 5 - Sun, Aug 7
The Tubbs Hill Foundation will have an information booth at Art on the Green. Stop by to learn about current issues, pick up a bumper sticker, make a donation, or tell us your favorite Tubbs Hill story. More Information.
Scott Reed and Art Manley Tribute
Friday, July 1, 2016, 5:00 PM 6:00 PM
The Tubbs Hill Foundation and the Kootenai Environmental Alliance will co-host a community tribute to commemorate the work done by Art Manley and Scott Reed to keep Tubbs Hill in public ownership and make it available for all in our area to enjoy. New memorial stones, with plaques honoring the two men, will be unveiled at the event, which will be part of Art Manley-Scott Reed Day as proclaimed by Mayor Widmyer.
The event will feature live music, free huckleberry ice cream and huckleberry lemonade, short speeches honoring Reed and Manley, and a brief presentation about the new memorial stones, which will be placed at the east and west entrances to the main trail around Tubbs Hill. Members of both men’s families will also be present.
Free and open to the public, this event will pay tribute to the two individuals most responsible for keeping Tubbs Hill in public hands, as well as for their many other contributions to protecting our natural resources and public recreational opportunities, including access to Coeur d’Alene Lake.
Tubbs Hill Foundation Annual Board Walk
Thursday, May 12, 2016, 9:30 AM 11:00 AM
The Foundation board members use this annual group hike to assess and discuss current issues affecting Tubbs Hill. We will meet at the east entrance at approximately 9:30 am.
Earth Day Celebration
Sunday, April 24, 2016, 12:00 PM 3:00 PM
Join us to celebrate Earth Day at the Coeur d'Alene Library Community Room. More information.
Earth Day Cleanup
Saturday, April 23, 2016, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM
Join the Tubbs Hill Foundation Board Members for the morning as we hike and clean. Coffee is often provided, but not guaranteed.