Spokane Great Outdoors & Bike Expo

Did you know Castlegar, BC on the Columbia River a few hours north of Spokane is home to one of the best mountain bike trails in the world right now? According to Trailforks, Captain Kangaroo, one of eight trails that make up the Merry Creek network close to town, recently earned that ranking and shouldn’t be missed!

Whether you’re on a hunt for stunning autumn foliage on a hike or a fan of high-speed mountain thrills, Castlegar has it all without the crowds. Check out our fall road trip feature of the area with all of the beta to start planning your own trip!

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Destination Castlegar BC
📸 Biking images: Aaron Theisen / Hiking image: Mitch Winton

Winner winner! Enjoy your new fire pit!

We had fun today! Hope to see you tomorrow.

Bigfoot, campfire tunes and marshmallows. It was a fun day at the Spokane Great Outdoors & Bike Expo! Come have some fun tomorrow, Sunday from 10-4.

Subaru of Spokane is giving away some sweet bikes at the Great Outdoors Expo this weekend! Enter to win at their booth at the front of the Expo.

Check out your next new adventure vehicle and thank them for sponsoring this year's event!

It was a blast hanging out with Allison at 4 News Now, RnR RV and Bugs n Snakes this morning.

Experience the Great Outdoors and Bike Expo this weekend Click here to view this video from KXLY .com.

We have this weekend packed with cool outdoors-inspired activities and clinics! Stop by the Fun to Sail booth to try your hand on their sailing simulator, take a mini fly tying clinic at the Long Drift Outfitters booth, or split real fossil-filled rocks with Friends of Stonerose Fossils - Stonerose Interpretive Center & Fossil Site plus a ton more activities for all ages!

Check out the complete activity schedule all the way at the bottom of our activities page to make sure you don't miss something!

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Our Spokane Great Outdoors Expo sponsor RnR RV will be bringing our indoor campground to life this weekend! Come check out some sweet RVs and start planning summer camping adventures in comfort.

RVs on hand will include the 2023 THOR TRANQUILITY 19P 4×4, the 2024 INTECH O-V-R EXPEDITION, and the hard-to find Winnebago EKKO | Off-Grid Class C RV Motorhome!

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What are you doing this weekend? Explore some of our region's amazing outdoors out of the cold, wet weather with presentations, bike testing, RVs and camper vans, skills clinics, live Americana music, coffee samples and full bar, outdoor clubs, travel destination and public lands exhibitors, skateboarding demonstration, golf show access, family activities, prize drawings and more!

The Spokane Great Outdoors Expo runs both Saturday and Sunday at the Spokane Convention Center and tickets are only $11 online and at the door and come with a sweet bonus deal of your choosing while they last (kids 12 and under are free).

Check out the full schedule of activities and presentations, hours, and get tickets at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com

Learn something new about the outdoors this weekend! We have a wide range of presentations, clinics, and demos on outdoor topics ranging from traditional fire making and knot tying to gravel biking, local UFO sightings, skateboarding skills for kids and a ton more free with your Expo ticket!

Plus nearly 60 public lands, travel destination, and outdoor club exhibitors armed with plenty of info to help you make the most of your spring and summer.

Happening all weekend long Feb 17-18 at the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo at the Spokane Convention Center. All the info and tickets at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com

If you’re hoping to score one of the free adventure deals for the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo this weekend, at least some of them will sell out this week so don’t wait! For all of you runners and walkers, we just added a Negative Split race discount option to the mix too. Get yours while you can!

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If you or someone you know is a fan of the survival show ALONE, share this post and mark calendars for “Behind-the-Scenes of ALONE Season 9 with Karie Lee Knoke” at the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo Saturday, February 17 at 12:30 PM!

Sandpoint-area local and ALONE Season 9 contestant Karie Lee will share untold stories of her incredible experience of surviving and thriving in the wild for 75 days in the wet and freezing conditions in Labrador, Canada, with nothing but 10 items.

The presentation at the Spokane Convention Center is free with your Great Outdoors Expo ticket (kids 12 and under are free). Kare Lee will also be offering several traditional fire making clinics over the weekend. Find all of the event info and the ticket link at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com

📸 Fiona Hicks Photography Fiona Hicks Photography.

The winners of the Great Gear Giveaway grand prize bike in 2023!! Who will win this year?

Learn something new about the outdoors! This year at the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo, we’re offering short clinics on a wide range of outdoor recreation topics all weekend long Feb 17-18 at the Spokane Convention Center.

Come learn from experts at these short 15-30-minute clinics on topics including outdoor clothing/gear/footwear choices for hiking, useful knots for camping and other outdoor activities, traditional fire making without matches or a lighter, beginner skateboarding skills, how to use Altai Hok ski/snowshoes, and fly tying. Clinics are free with your Expo ticket.

Details and ticket info is listed on the Expo site activities page.
https://spokaneoutdoorexpo.com/activities/

If you're planning to get tickets to the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo (Feb 17-18), get them online sooner than later for the best selection of free outdoor adventure deals that come with your ticket while they last!

Choose from FREE or discounted indoor climbing or discounts on paddleboarding, ziplining, aerial park exploring, outdoor gear, or a camper van rental with your Expo ticket!

These awesome deals more than pay for the $11 ticket to this fun indoor celebration of the Inland Northwest’s warm-weather outdoor adventure season but offers are limited so get yours while they last!

The Spokane Great Outdoors Expo happens Feb 17-18 at the Spokane Convention Center. Come check out presentations, skills clinics, demonstrations, outdoor adventure and travel destinations, RVs and gear, live music, kids’ activities, and more.

Tickets and info at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com.

Have you or someone you know seen lights or objects in the sky that couldn’t be easily explained? Don’t miss the presentation “The Unexplained in Our Skies—Notable UFO Sightings in Washington State and the Spokane Area” at the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo Saturday February 17!

Presenter Dan Nims, a retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and test pilot, volunteers for the WA Mutual UFO Network where he helps investigate around 200 UFO sightings in Washington State each year. Nims will focus his presentation on high-profile and historic cases of UFO sightings throughout the state.

Read the Out There Outdoors article about the presentation at https://outthereoutdoors.com/spokane-area-ufo-sightings-presentation-feb-17-2024/ and find ticket info for the event at the Spokane Convention Center at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com.

Presentations | Spokane Great Outdoor and Bike Expo Spokane Outdoor Expo Presentations Feb. 17-18 2024 Learn and discover new things about the Inland Northwest’s great outdoors, from hiking and biking trails and local wildlife to stories of stories of survival from ALONE Season 9 and reported sightings of lights and unidentified objects in the sky ...

Take your kids to the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo Feb 17-18 for a fun and active outing with bike riding, arts and crafts, live reptiles and insects, story telling, marshmallow roasting, skateboarding demonstrations, and other games and outdoors-themed activities for families all indoors all weekend long at the Spokane Convention Center!

There's plenty for parents too, including 60+ vendors, RVs and camper vans, presentations and clinics, hourly gear and other prize drawings, live music, and a full bar. Kids 12 and under are free. Find tickets and more info at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com

Come enjoy some acoustic American old-time, bluegrass, and other classic string-instrument tunes at the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo! Kick back in a camp chair in our faux campground around a flickering fake fire and enjoy a very real and tasty roasted marshmallow, cup of camp coffee, or adult beverage while listening to some awesome live local music.

Come enjoy the great outdoors indoors all weekend long Feb 17-18 at the Spokane Convention Center. Presentations; demonstrations; clinics; kids activities; hourly prize drawings; outdoor clubs, travel destinations, and public lands agencies; and games will get you dreaming about (and ready for) summer!

More info and tickets at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com

Thanks to the Inland NW Bluegrass Music Association for helping to make this year's live music possible and for Brad Keeler, Homebrew Stringband, and Free Spiritz for playing!

Super stoked to have some talented local skaters coming to this year's Great Outdoors Expo to throw down some high ollie action. This rad skateboarding demo happens both Saturday and Sunday (Feb 17 and 18) at 1:20 PM. Bring the kids and prepare to have your minds blown!

Stick around after the skateboarding demo for a short, free beginner skateboarding clinic for kids ages 3-7! Thanks to One Off Skate Decks Yousta Skateboards, Paradigm Skate Supply, and Hopper Skateboards for putting it all on!

Check out all of the presentations, clinics, and activities planned for this year's Great Outdoors Expo at the Spokane Convention Center Feb 17-18.
https://spokaneoutdoorexpo.com/activities/

One of the coolest things about the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo Feb 17-18 are the presentations by experts on a wide range of outdoors related topics. This year we are especially excited to hear from Karie Lee Knoke who will offer an inside look at her experience as a contestant on ALONE Season 9!

Other presentations will cover WA State UFO sightings, safety in cougar and bear country, gravel biking, the 13 essentials all hikers should carry in their pack, sites along the Ice Age Floods Trail, live reptiles and insects, types of e-bikes and where you can ride them, the Metaline Falls Bigfoot Festival, and more!

All presentations are free with your ticket to the Great Outdoors Expo that happens at the Spokane Convention Center. Find the full schedule, details, and ticket info here: https://spokaneoutdoorexpo.com/presentations-2/

Justin M Short BA North Division Bicycle Shop Karie Lee Knoke Ice Age Floods Institute, Cheney-Spokane Chapter Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Bugs n Snakes Spokane Mountaineers Pend Oreille Region Tourism Alliance - PORTA

Get FREE or discounted indoor climbing, paddleboarding, ziplining, aerial park exploring, outdoor gear, or a campervan rental with your Spokane Great Outdoors Expo ticket!

These awesome deals more than pay for the $11 ticket to this fun indoor celebration of the Inland Northwest’s warm-weather outdoor adventure season but offers are limited so get yours while they last!

Get your ticket and free adventure deal for the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo Feb 17-18 at the Spokane Convention Center and come check out presentations, skills clinics, demonstrations, outdoor adventure and travel destinations, RVs and gear, live music, kids’ activities, and more.

Tickets and info at Spokaneoutdoorexpo.com.

Plan for a weekend of outdoorsy family fun inside at the Spokane Great Outdoors Expo Feb 17-18 at the Spokane Convention Center!

There are great activities, games, clinics, and presentations for kids and parents, and kids under 12 get in free with a ticketed parent. And access to the Spokane Golf Show is included too!

Check out the video on our website to see what you can expect and look for activity details and times to be added in the coming weeks!

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