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U.S. 12 Travel/Tourism Businesses
Throughout the Highway 12 corridor, more than 150 businesses depend in good part upon travelers, tourists and area recreationists in order to stay in business. These are mostly small businesses of the sort Governor Otter, Idaho legislators, and Idaho's Congressional Delegation say they want to foster. The Lolo Pass to Lewiston total is 150 (and likely misses some). Add in Clarkston, Washington, which receives travelers and tourists from the east via U.S. 12, and the total is 189. Also affected by U.S.12 traveler/tourist traffic are these nearby communities: Weippe, Pierce, Asotin, Lapwai, Moscow, Pullman, Grangeville, Riggins, Cottonwood, Winchester, Craigmont, Whitebird, and Elk City.
Travel/tourism ranks 3rd among Idaho's top industries, and these business along the Northwest Passage Scenic Byway create a large portion of that economic success. Losing these businesses will cost the whole State of Idaho and all Idahoans. Since we all know we are already economically suffering, turning our Byway into an industrial truck route truly constitutes the proverbial "shooting of ourselves in the foot."
Should the scenic byway become recharacterized as a mega-load truck route — with bright lights and lots of noise night after night waking sleeping tourist at campgrounds along the Middle Fork and Lochsa — tourists will likely stop coming to north central Idaho. And at least 150 mostly small businesses, some the sole livelihoods of families, will suffer.
Here is a list of business in the corridor that may be seriously affected should the U.S. 12 Scenic Byway - All-American Highway be recharacterized by Governor Otter, the Port of Lewiston, and Big Oil as an industrial mega-load truck route.
Lolo Pass
- Lolo Pass Visitor Center & gift shop
Powell
- Lochsa Lodge, Café, Gift Shop & Gas Station/Convenience Store
- Perhaps some outfitters – but not counted herein
Lowell
- Three Rivers Resort
- Bearpaw River Expeditions
- Ryan's Wilderness Inn & Café
- Cougar Canyon Station (convenience store & gas)
- Three Rivers Rafting
- Coolwater Ranch (outfitter)
- Perhaps other outfitters – but not counted herein
Syringa
- Rivers Odyssey West
- River Dance Lodge
- Syringa Café
Middle Fork of the Clearwater stretch of the highway
- Reflections Inn
- Mountain Meadow Press
- Clearwater Connections, Inc.
- Perhaps some outfitters – but not counted herein
Kooskia
- Coffee & Cream (espresso)
- The Rivers Café
- China Café
- Grapevine Café
- Clearwater Valley Harvest Foods
- Jim’s Saloon
- Selway Bar
- Sunset Mart (convenience store & gas)
- Tom Cat’s (convenience store, gas & sporting goods)
- RV Park (on U.S.12)
- IR Silversmithing (gifts & biker gear)
- Western Motel
- My Health Food Store
- Reflections Inn
- Mountain Meadow Press (wholesale to gift outlets)
- The Purple Feather (smokes, gifts & novelties)
- Silver Dollar Bar & Grill (Stites)
- Stites Grocery
- Harpster RV Park & convenience store
Kamiah
- Dale's Cashway (gas, convenience store & sporting goods)
- Cedar Creek Creations (wholesale to gift outlets)
- Higher Grounds Cafe' (espresso)
- The Pit Stop (convenience store & gas)
- Johnson's Jewelry (gifts & jewelry)
- It ze ye ye Casino
- Cloninger’s Harvest Foods & gas station
- Palenque Mexican Restaurant
- Pizza Factory
- The Hub Bar & Grill
- Hearthstone Bakery & Tea House
- Kamiah Hardware (souvenirs & gifts)
- Kamiah Flower Shop (gifts)
- Roxanne's Hallmark (gifts)
- Sundown Motel
- Kamiah Inn Motel
- Clearwater 12 Motel
- Hearthstone Lodge
- Lewis-Clark Resort, Motel & RV Park
- Sacajawea Cafe
- Flying B Ranch (lodging & outfitting)
- A 3rd gas station & convenience store
- Branding Iron Saloon
- Selway Ridgerunners Outfitter & Guide Service
- Clearwater Progress (travel/tourism business ads)
Orofino & Riverside
- Auggie’s (espresso & café)
- Flamingo Cafe & Gifts
- The Ponderosa Restaurant
- Pizza Factory
- M & M Pizza
- Woodlot Tavern & Cafe
- Brass Rail (bar)
- Homestead Lounge
- Orofino Country Store
- China Palace Restaurant
- Fiesta En Jalisco (Mexican restaurant)
- Krystal Cafe
- Dining on the Edge
- Helgeson Hotel
- Konkolville Motel
- Best Western Lodge at River’s Edge
- Riverside Motel & Guide Service
- White Pine Motel
- High Country Inn
- Sunset Mart (convenience store & gas)
- IGA
- Eagle’s Nest (souvenirs & gifts)
- Valley Graphics & Hallmark (souvenirs & gifts)
- Frontier Foods
- Clearwater Crossing RV Park
- Dworshak State Park
- Clearwater Tribune (travel/tourism business ads)
- Sunset Mart (convenience store & gas)
- Guide Shop (outfitting & gifts)
- Hayes’s Foods
- Barney’s (foods)
- Sports Shop (sports equipment & gas)
- An RV park on west end
- A restaurant near Barney’s
- Material Girls Quilting, Etc. (traveling quilters always stop at quilt shops)
- Perhaps other outfitters – but not counted herein
On highway west of Riverside
- Thunderbird (gas & convenience store)
Peck
- A bar/café
Spalding
- Nez Perce National Historic Park & Museum
Enroute to Lewiston from Spalding
- Nez Perce cigarette shop
- Clearwater River Casino & Resort
- Riverside Restaurant
- Nez Perce Express (convenience store & gas)
- Flying J (convenience store & gas)
- Marsh’s Trading Post (gifts)
- Hollywood Motel (not sure of this name)
- Gas stations, etc., on frontage road at bottom of Old Spiral Highway
Lewiston
- Red Lion Hotel
- Meriwether's American Grill
- Bar at Red Lion
- Inn America
- Bel Air Motel
- Holiday Inn Express
- HoHum Motel
- Hillary Motel
- Evergreen Motel
- El Rancho Motel
- Comport Inn
- Guesthouse Inn & Suites
- Golden Oak Inn
- EconoLodge
- Lewiston Inn & Suites
- Kentucky Fried Chicken
- The Huddle (bar)
- MJ Barleyhoppers
- McCullon's Steak, Seafood & Spirit House
- Main Street Grill
- Boomers (bar
- Shooters Sports Bar
- Antonio's Pizza & Pasta
- Anytime Tavern & Grill
- Arby's
- McDonald's
- Jack in the Box
- Waffles & More
- BoJacks Broiler Pit
- Emperor of India-King Thai (restaurant)
- Pizza Hut
- Effie's Tavern
- All gas stations on lower 21st and on main downtown strip (3-4?)
- Albertson’s
- Starbucks
- any main strip gift outlets (2-3?)
- River Quest (river trips)
- Lewiston Tribune (travel/tourism business ads)
- Luna House Museum & gift shop
- Museum of Art & History
- Others??
Lolo Pass - Lewiston TOTAL: 150
Others:
Businesses & individuals that service the cruise ships, other than the one’s listed above, such as High Country Catering (Ahsahka), individual Lindblad/National Geographic tour presentors, etc.
Businesses that service and supply RVs, automobiles and pickups, and boats.
Vendors at local town events that are attended by travelers/tourists either by happenstance or design, such as Orofino’s Logging Days & Kamiah’s BBQ Days & Lewiston's Dogwood Festival.
Clarkston = 39 businesses partly dependent upon travelers/tourists & recreationists who come from the east via U.S. 12
- Beamers (jet boat tours up the Snake)
- Snake River Adventures
- Other river trip providers?
- Quality Inn
- Papa Murphy's Take 'n' Bake Pizza
- Phoenix Mountain Restaurant
- Sunset Motel
- Nendels Inn
- Station 3 Family Restaurant & Lounge
- Best Western River Tree Inn
- Hogans Pub
- Hacienda Lodge
- Astor Motel
- Golden Key Motel
- Motel 6
- Fout-Ten Drive In
- Grandma's Old Town Cafe
- Roosters Landing
- Sharp's Burger Ranch
- Hells Gate Marina & Redneck Yacht Club
- Hazel's (cafe
- The Bistro
- Jawbone Flats Cafe
- Der Litten Haus
- Grumpy's Family Restaurant & Sports Bar
- Bamboo Gardens
- Lancer Lanes Casino, Bar & Grill
- Arby's
- BBQ & Blues
- Pizza Hut
- Paraiso Vallarta (Mexican restaurant)
- Fazzari's Finest (restaurant
- RV park
- Tomato Brothers
- Other restaurants (3-4)
- Starbucks
- Albertsons
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