Sandpoint Magazine, our town’s outstanding color glossy lifestyle and visitor magazine, is published twice a year in May and November. Averaging more than 130 pages, each issue is loaded with great stories about Sandpoint, complete information on upcoming events, guest to dining, lodging, attractions, business directories and more.

Sandpoint Magazine is published by Keokee Co. Publishing of Sandpoint -- the same group that produces SandpointOnline.com. If you like Sandpoint ... you’ll love Sandpoint Magazine.

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Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2009
Stories include: Fat Tires and Life on Two Wheels • David Thompson Bicentennial • Sandpoint Transition Initiative • Hiking the Selkirks with an Artist • Change in Sandpoint: Education • Plus, interview with Intermountain Community Bancorp CEO Curt Hecker, road names that bear lasting legacies, a fuel-free adventure with five friends, an ode to the Sand Creek rope swing and much more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2009
Stories include: Schweitzer: Launchpad for Snow Pros • Backcountry with Selkirk Powder Company • Sandpoint-born Sarah Palin • Interview: Paul Schaller, Quest Aircraft CEO • First Ski Descent in the Monarchs • North Idaho Winter Wildlife • Sandpoint Community Theater Comeback • Escape from the Dust Bowl • Plus, a Joy of Winter photo essay, daily painters, singing in the choir, then-and-now for SHS Valedictorians, the boom in thrift stores and much more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2008
Stories include: Five Easy Sandpoint-Area Hikes • Sandpoint Archaeology Dig • Bonner County’s Last Dairy Farmers • Artists Lisa VanDerKarr • Lake Pend Oreille Book • Plus, feature interview with quarterback Jake Plummer, spectacular Pack River Delta, three decades of POAC, the Forrest Bird Aviaton Museum, and much more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2008
Stories include: Schweitzer Mountain’s Giant Leap • Demographics of Change in Sandpoint • My Friend’s Fathers photo essay • Photographers Dann and Hazel Hall • Plus an interview with Schweitzer founders Jack and Dorothy Fowler, ice fishing, pioneer voices, Boots Reynolds, sled dogging, ice fishing, and much more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2007
25 Years of the Festival at Sandpoint - It's a musical milestone, 25 years of music under the stars with the Festival at Sandpoint, along with stories about sold-out shows, poster artists, a festival-goer's guide and the season calendar. Plus: mountain biking; rock climbing; the Long Bridge Swim; an interview with political cartoonist Bill Mitchell; and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2006
Get Out There: 10 great adventures - Discover 10 outdoor adventures within an hour of Sandpoint, from paddling to flying. Plus: three painters who paint on different canvases; a rock climbing memoir; Patrick McManus and his first novel, "The Blight Way"; Quest Aircraft and the Kodiak airplane; Extreme Makeover: Home Edition; and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2006
Hang Time at Schweitzer: Take a Flying Leap into New Terrain - The mountain opens up 400 acres of new terrain at Little Blue, along with a story on the telemark scene and a profile of General Manager Ron Nova. Plus: the spa scene; literary leanings; KPND after 25 years; and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2005
Wilderness of Water - A comprehensive recreation guide to Lake Pend Oreille, along with some history and literature about the great lake. Plus: literary scene, founding families, Georgia Shonk-Simmons interview, a pair of art features, an old-growth forests photo essay, and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2005
In Your Face - Meet three of Sandpoint's top photographers and learn about what they do and how they do it. Plus: an exclusive interview with actor Viggo Mortensen, Sandpoint's year of discovery as the "West's best small town," a newcomers' guide to living in Sandpoint and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2004
Wilder Walks – Author Dennis Nicholls recounts seven months spent hiking the Selkirks. Plus: Panida So Grand, expansion and history of the historic theater; Sandy Compton’s analysis and tips on local golf courses’ toughest holes; a fish seminar with Patrick F. McManus and Boots Reynolds; and two lakeshore real estate developments.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2004
Schweitzer turns 40, a tale of two managers. Plus "Following Ross Hall's footsteps", Winter Wildlife, an interview with Frank VanderSloot, President & CEO of Melaleuca, Inc.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2003
Wild Walks – lake hikes in the Cabinet Mountains. Plus: Guide to NORBA fat-tire races, kayaking, driving tours, Steve Willey interview, golf pros, Bookcrossing.com and choosing a contractor.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2003
Hidden Schweitzer – hints to the super sweet spots. Plus: backcountry travel log, furniture as art, Shari Short interview, centennial film, ice recreation.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2002
Swingin' Summer – 1 great big beautiful lake, 2 fabulous float trips, 3 super swimming holes and 4 lovely little lakes. Plus: lookout tower camping, waterfall hikes, Scott Glickenhaus interview and remembering the Sundance Fire.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2002
Got Snow? Here's nine ways to get out and enjoy it. Plus: sculptors of Sandpoint, nightlife, Reidar Wahl interview, Freeride Institute ... and a whole lot more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2001
Sandpoint centennial, a century of memories. Special issue. Plus: Maiden Rock and other lake-view hikes, Erik Daarstad interview, golf, lake play, real estate

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2001
Blasting off the deep end. Schweitzer launches Northwest Territory. Plus: gallery owners on collecting art, skiing from Caribou Lodge, Dr. Foster Cline interview, planned communities, 10 years of Sandpoint Magazine

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 2000
Great grizzlies and other wild residents. Special wildlife issue. Plus: a '5 bear day' in the Cabinets, Bonner County fair, Delia Owens interview, woodland retreats

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 2000
Skiing into the future. New owners, new attitude, new thrills: it's a whole new Schweitzer. Plus: a century of Sandpoint, woven by family woodworkers, Marty Becker interview, ice hockey, log homes

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 1999
Paddling from the past to the present: river journeys in the wake of explorer David
Thompson. Plus: the B&B experience, hiking the Monarchs, great golf in North Idaho and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 1999
Stories include: Snowmobiling North Idaho Backcountry • Sandpoint Artwalk • Snowboarding Schweitzer Mountain • Backcountry Powder on Big Blue • A Tribute to Wild Rose Cinde Borup • Schweitzer Real Estate a Buyer’s Market • Plus a Guggenheim recipient, histroic buildings, sampling the brewpub, violin virtuoso Jason Moody, and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 1998
Stories include: Historic Lake Pend Oreille Water Journeys • Football All-Pro Jerry Kramer • Festival at Sandpoint’s Gunther Schuller • Sandpoint Hikes • Holistic Architect Bruce Millard • Climbing Selkirk’s Chimney Rock • Plus historic Hotel Hope, Kootenai Wildlife Refuge, author Irene Bennett Dunn and much more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 1998
Stories include: Selkirk Mountains Ski Adventure • Actor and Writer Ben Stein • Cowboy Artist Nelson Boren • Priest Lake Snowcat Adventure • Schweitzer Mountain Legends • Literary Lion Frank Bartel • Plus, Sandpoint’s venerable Alpine Shop, community banking takes off, birth of Pend d’Oreille Winery and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 1997
Stories include: The Kalispel Tribe and Lake Pend Oreille • A Lake Pend Oreille guide • Great Golf in Sandpoint • Hiking the Clark Fork-Coeur d’Alene Divide • A Tribute to Photographer Cap Davis •  Detective Mark Fuhrman Interview • Plus, artist Barbara Jausz, wakeboarding on Pend Oreille, horse logging, extreme bike riders and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 1997
Stories include: Photography of Cap Davis • Dream Days on Schweitzer Mountain • Snowboarding Comes to Schweitzer • Author Rick Bass Interview • Steve Willey’s Backwoods Solar Electric • Priest Lake Snowcat Motherlode • Plus ice climbing, Old Power House rennovation, metal artist Tammy Farmin and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 1996
Stories include: History of Farragut Naval Training Station • Farragut Photographer Ross Hall • Farragut Park Now • Artist Stephen Lyman’s Last Interview • Hiking Scotchman Peak and Packsaddle Mountain • Plus a female bike champ, trends in building healthy, local bands, old-time cowboy Will McMain, Captain Curtis Pearson’s Shawnodese and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 1996
Stories include: Who We Are: Sandpoint Fights Racist Label • Sandpoint’s Changing Demographic • Wild Roses Beth and Cinde Interview • Schweitzer Mountain on the Grow • Sandpoint’s Poetry Scene • Cross-Country Skiing around Sandpoint • Selkirk Mountains Snowmobiling • Plus, the Wolf People, Sandpoint oldest building, hot-shot videographers, Sandpoint’s Waldorf School and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer 1995
Stories include: All aboard, for a ride to railroad city: A history of railroads and how Sandpoint became "The Funnel" for all the northern tier railroads • Interview with humorist and author Patrick McManus • tree truths • Sandpoint's culinary maestros • Festival at Sandpoint's new Schweitzer Institute of Music • and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Winter 1995
Stories include: A feature interview with inventor and aviator Dr. Forrest Bird • 15 tips for skiing Schweitzer this winter • unsolved mysteries from Sandpoint's true crime annals • excerpts from the new book Kaniksu • Marianne Love's new book Pocket Girdles • the art of winter • and more.

Sandpoint Magazine Summer1994
Stories include: Timber Town, USA; Sandpoint's historic roots as a timbering community • interview with the Dennis and Ann Pence of Coldwater Creek, back to the Continental Mine in the footsteps of A.K. Klockmann, a primer on huckleberries • great golf • Priest Lake hiking • Lake Pend Oreille's secret beaches • and more.