All About St Maries Idaho | Small Towns North Idaho

St Maries is a small town at the southern end of Lake Coeur d'Alene, it is about an hour south of CDA. It is an old logging town, but it has grown in the past few years and has much to offer! I was down in St Maries showing houses, and am happy to share this video on what I learned about this area. Enjoy!
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[@mikeb3536]

The Route of the Hiawatha is amazing. Everyone should ride it once. The trestles are wide and solidly built, so they aren't really scary in my opinion.

[@cda_realtor_leslie]

Good to know! I need a bike!

[@duanelundell4257]

Great info but I would have liked to see more pics and videos

[@JohnJones-wg2od]

The best way is to honestead timbered land...(Hire someone you trust to assess the viability)

[@jalqassar]

I WAS THERE. Its very beautiful and peaceful. The people there are kind, moralistic and sweet, like the PEOPLE ON the Andy Griffith show. He was real. His town was real. MAYBERRY WAS THE STAGE NAME BUT THE REAL NAME IS Mount Airy....North Carolina. ST. MARIES reminds me of Mayberry. They have cool antique shops. Its like traveling back in time to the 1950s. Such a joy in this crazy world.

[@frankcreamer9270]

The streets need repair. the city council can not be trusted. the Gas price and food are to high. Heyburn park is crap. The only good thing about St Maries is, there are no traffic lights when you pass through. Wages are low. There is a lack of jobs. Land prices are to high.

[@CdA_Native]

Anybody here remember "St. Maries Auto Freight??"

[@donaldappelhof2059]

Let’s all move there!

[@markkover8040]

Lived there for about 20 years back in the 1970s and 80s. Some family still lives there. I visit occasionally. First of all, St. Maries is a logging town. Logging and processing timber is what made the area and is still very important to the local economy. You'll see signs 'This business supports Logging' on many of the town's businesses, so if you're opposed to the lumber industry, I don't suggest moving there. The only decent full time employment is at the Potlatch saw and plywood mill. ALL of the routes in and out of town are narrow, winding, two lane roads. They can get interesting with the logging and chip trucks. Winters can be brutal for those not used to rough winter weather. The roads can be treacherous. In winter or spring, the St. Joe and St. Maries Rivers can flood the valley. The town itself is fine, but the routes north through Rose Lake and south through Emida or Fernwood are cut off. Town entertainment - wise, there isn't any unless you like bars and drinking. I don't know if the bowling alley on 10th Street is still open. To actually go to a movie theater you have to drive to Spokane (65 miles away) or Cour d'Alene (52 miles. There is also the casino outside of Worley, which is about 28 miles away. It's a place where people have to prove they fit in. People who think they are going to change things don't make it there. The area is beautiful and it is an outdoorsman's paradise, but living there takes a certain type of person.

[@alejandroreina8105]

I loved it there in the summer of 1987. My in laws were great. Just common People, honest Hard working, loving With their state and country. It reminded me of the típical family of the 50's. Found out many dont welcome outsiders.

[@poopytowncat]

Nice comment. Very fair. Re the "fitting in" comments: I don't know the exact numbers but IMO most people in St. Maries are in several large groups that go back to the founders. My grandfather (mothers side) homesteaded on the St. Joe river a few miles from St. Maries in the 1890s?? He had a few sons and many daughters. So I probably have hundreds of relatives in St. Maires that I don't know (or once did). When I visit I'm surprised how many people still know me. Everyone knows everyone. Not like a big city where you are anonymous. One other bit that I remember from way-back - there was a big influx of people to the area during the Great Depression - a lot of "Okies" (basically homeless migrant people) who had an impact on the culture. One other crazy fact: nicknames: You need one but you don't get to choose it!

[@markkover8040]

@@poopytowncat Well said. My father was a forester for the Burlington Northern railroad. He managed timber around Avery and a few sections north, northeast of Potlatch. There were still a number of the old time loggers around. They were interesting to talk to. Some of the people listed on the Loggers' Memorial were classmates or friends of the family. I spent a lot of time hiking in the mountains around the St. Joe River. You're quite right about the nicknames; I worked at the Potlatch mill for about five years before going to college at the University of Idaho. At the mill I picked up the nickname 'Moon Boots' because of the heavy winter boots I wore. When I was in high school I was called 'Peg Leg' because I had a straight legged cast for three months due to knee surgery.

[@poopytowncat]

@@markkover8040-- I had several nicknames over my time in St. Maries. When I was maybe 9 or 10 years old one was "Soup" Unlike modern times, we were not locked up at lunchtime . We could leave the Heyburn grade school and walk home for lunch or do whatever. I would always take my 25 cents for school lunch, walk to the Handycorner Cafe, sit at the counter, and order mushroom soup and a glass of milk. I remember they always had a little one serving size can of soup they would open.

[@banjobenson9348]

how about a camera shot of the main streets /

[@cda_realtor_leslie]

Will do next time I'm there!

[@wolfhunterv1]

Lived there 20 years. It's all private land now gated off. Your left with a pit. It takes 45+min to get anywhere. Your garnet mine if open is by appointment and only for a few hours. The "water sports" are trying to dodge all the speeding boats and kids on jet skies. After moving away it took a while to figure out what was missing....... the largest mosquitoes you have ever seen they sound like humming birds buzzing you. But spend the big money so life residents can move away!

[@poopytowncat]

From someone now living in Washington on the left side of the Cascade mountains: I lived there (about 8 years) as a young kid many many years ago. I have visited relatives in St. Maries many times since then. The famous tranquil shadowy St. Joe river is not the same as I knew it. Idaho is famous for its freedom, such as no gun laws, uncontrolled tree cutting and allowing ear-shattering dirt bikes to race around everywhere. (And the the speeding boats and jet skis you mention.) As for politics, they don't like anyone from California or Communists (AKA Democrats and the Forest Service.) About a dozen years ago the Aryan Nation was planning to build large stronghold in friendly Benewah county. I believe during the pandemic they were among least vaccinated counties with the most cases of covid. Racism is so baked in even people who have never talked to a black person think nothing of using the N word and making racist jokes. I suspect if my family did not move out I would now be a flat earther living on minimal Social Security in a shack.

[@alejandroreina8105]

On the bad side of things, i was there in 1987 when some supremacist were Messing around. Went to a bar with my formar wife and Sister in law finding out some one had kicked the side of my car 3 times leavng three dents on my 2 side Doors. My ex wife recommended I leave town. I did. I met wonderful People there. Cultured, well educated. Yes, racial Jokes were Kind of the thing there when I met a couple People. I loved my in laws born and lived there for ever. I loved their freedom and self reliance, love for the US.